Sen nocy letniej
A midsummer night’s dream
- Year
- 1977
- Material
- mahogany, maple
- Dimensions
- h 68 cm
- Location
- private collection
- Exhibitions
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- «Tendencje i Osobowości 1974–1979» — Zachęta, Warsaw, 1979
- Solo exhibition at KMPiK «Mały Rynek», Kraków, c. 1988
- «Poolse Kunst in Pulchri» — Pulchri Studio, The Hague, 1991
- «Przemijanie» — Muzeum Regionalne, Siedlce, 2009
- Related works
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- Sen nocy letniej, 1981 Open the catalogue entry → The painting of 1981 that portrays it, set out of doors on a platform of cobbles.
The work
A block of mahogany with two rectangular recesses sunk into its flanks; from its top rises an upright board crossed by a window one can see through, and at the sides of the board, near the top, two great human ears. In front, on the top, a cone of pale maple. From the front it is a head — the ears at the sides, the cone like a muzzle; from three quarters it becomes a chair, with the back rising from the rear of the seat.
The title is the Polish name of Shakespeare’s «A Midsummer Night’s Dream», the comedy in which a man falls asleep and wakes with the head of an ass. It is one of the works that travel most: it appears already in the catalogue of the national survey «Tendencje i osobowości» at the Zachęta in Warsaw, in 1979, and in 2009 it is still in the gallery at Siedlce. In 1981, in between, the artist paints it.
