Dates: June 16 – June 23, 2020
The starting point is the sculptural design with iron. The participants will be familiarized with the techniques of metalworking and welding.
The Venetian tradition of glass processing is incorporated into the collaboration with the Alessandro Mandruzzato company in Murano, working on sculptures made of glass and iron.
As a South African, Willie Bester had influence on French legislation with one of his sculptures. His social commitment will be an important contribution.
Teaching Professor: Willie Bester, Cape Town
Dates: June 23 – June 30, 2020
Andrzej Wełmiński works as painter and installation artist, director, scenographer and performer. Having lived and worked in Poland since 1973 as a member of Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot 2 Theatre Company and in close relationship with the Foksal Gallery, Wełmiński continues to make installation art and sculpture, as well as scenography in the direct ways and methods of Cricot 2 (example 1 /example 2). Coming from this rich tradition of surrealist art as well as theatre of the unconscious, Andrzej Wełmiński opens up to the students of his class a fantastic world of sculpturing possibilities.
Every student is invited to elaborate on his own myths or his own sculptures within a scenography.
As the sculptures of Andrzej Wełmiński has to been seen as a part of a scenography, this class will start with developing “a story” and building sculptures as parts of a scenography. This building process will be continued and reflected on the background of the scenography developed for the “story of sculptures.”
The material to be used will be clay, but also fabrics and paper.
The sculpture can be stand alone or a string puppet.
What makes this class so unique is that the sculpture relates to the environment and the performative aspects of the sculpture in its scenographic environment is as important.
This means that participants of this class will have elaborated sophisticated sculptures at the end of the week, which are to be seen as elements in a scenographic setting of a story or a performance. Sculptures will not only be representing human bodies or theatrical roles, but also possibly machinery or moving structures.
The student will define “the story” he or she wants to tell and they will together with Andrzej Wełmiński develop the ideas in which way it can be best represented.
There are several topics of special interest which will be applied to this sculpture class:
Participants will be encouraged to bring in their own non-standard solutions, subjective interpretation of the scene as well as for collecting the starting materials, keeping their notes, conscious observation of the searching for the final result and finding their own expression formula.
Please pick your preferred workshop (traditional or unconventional) and basic tools for DIY (do it yourself)
Teaching Professor: Andrzej Wełmiński, Krakow