{"id":22896,"date":"2023-06-07T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22896"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:18:05","slug":"beksinski-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/06\/07\/beksinski-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Beksi\u0144ski on film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Polish artist Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski filmed at different stages of his career. There was more of this than I expected when Beksi\u0144ski’s work ran so counter to contemporary trends. We have Andy Teszner<\/a> to thank for making so much footage available and also providing English subtitles. Taken together, the films show the evolution of Beksi\u0144ski’s workplace as much as his art, a space which becomes lighter, tidier and increasingly filled by audio-visual technology. Don’t expect any enlightening comments where the paintings are concerned. Beksi\u0144ski was always adamant that they didn’t mean anything beyond what they were. I find this a refreshing attitude, especially when so many artists today attach a pompous explanatory statement to their work.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski in 1975<\/a>. “He always works with music.”<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Beksinski, 1978<\/a>. “Would you like to say something to the audience?” “No. Absolutely not.”<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski \u2013 A Stroll through Warsaw<\/a> (1989). A film by Hubert Waliszewski and Elzbieta Dryll-Glinska in which Beksi\u0144ski and Piotr Dmochowski wander around the city for a while then look at some of Beksi\u0144ski’s paintings.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Beksi\u0144ski at work, 1990<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Beksi\u0144ski at Mn\u00e9mos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polish artist Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski filmed at different stages of his career. There was more of this than I expected when Beksi\u0144ski’s work ran so counter to contemporary trends. We have Andy Teszner to thank for making so much footage available and also providing English subtitles. Taken together, the films show the evolution of Beksi\u0144ski’s workplace … Continue reading “Beksi\u0144ski on film”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7,44],"tags":[12886,2298],"class_list":["post-22896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-painting","tag-piotr-dmochowski","tag-zdzislaw-beksinski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Xi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}