Let's go! Stanislaw Kulon "Sybiracka Way of the Cross of My household – 1939–1946"
date:19 February 2019 Editor: Editorial
Janusz Kurtyka's halt of past in Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street, the exhibition “Sybiracka Road of the Cross of my household – 1939–1946” by Prof. Stanisław Kulon is held until March 20.
The exhibition shows the tragic destiny of Poles deported from 1940 to 1941 to the russian Union and forced to settle on "inhuman land."
The exhibition is open from 12 February to 20 March 2019.
Prof. Stanisław Kulon, author of presented sculptures, reliefs and paintings on glass, was born in 1930 in Kresach. 10 February 1940. The Soviets drove him and his household to Ural, where his parents and younger brothers died due to frost, hunger, and devastating work. Stanisław, together with his surviving siblings, managed to return to Poland in 1946. Through the child's next homes, he went to Zakopane, where he began studying at the School of Plastic Technology under Antoni Kenar. After his graduation he studied at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. From 1958 to 1966 he was an assistant at the studio of Prof. Louisa Nitschowa, from 1988 to 2000 – prof. of the ASP Sculpture Department.
We remind the archive footage from the beginning of the S.Kulon exhibition in the same 2017 IPN facility.