26.01.2011
Cecylia Malik’s album premiere
On the 4th February, an extraordinary album will reach book-stores across Poland: Cecylia Malik: 365 Trees. The young Krakow artist, starting from 25th September 2009, climbed a tree a day for the following year. It is the origin of the cycle 365 Trees inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel The Baron in the Trees from 1957. - The project lasted exactly a year, i.e. 365 days, when I climbed up 365 trees, different each time. Not only is it my diary, but also my private rebellion, a small protest, the artist writes in the preface.
Photographs collected in the form of album are provided with texts of several authors, among others of Sylwia Chutnik, Adam Wajrak and numerous enthusiasts of Cecylia Malik’s action, who all have various ways of interpreting 365 trees, to begin with emancipation, ecology, public space retrieving by city inhabitants to end with purely adventurous reading.
“Crowds of girls will want to climb up higher, higher than possible, higher than life. Up to the clouds, maybe even stars. And they will look down on their previous home with suddenly small LCD screen.”
Sylwia Chutnik
“Although Ceclia is a painter, her tree project is not exclusively artistic for me. It is environmental, as it brings the trees back to us, people.”
Adam Wajrak
Cecylia Malik - a graduate of Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Co-creator of the Art Farm and the club Mały Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow. For the project 365 Trees, received the title Culturist of 2010 from the Instructors of the Radiowy Dom Kultury programme (Polish Radio 3). Nominated to the Kulturalne Odloty award of the Krakow Gazeta Wyborcza daily (winners will be announced on the 5th February 2011).
We invite you to an eventful author’s evening of Cecylia Malik on 11th February in Krakow-details coming soon.
CECYLIA MALIK: 365 TREES
Publisher: Fundacja Nowej Kultury Bęc Zmiana, Warsaw 2011
First edition
ISBN 978-83-62418-05-3
Orders: www.funbec.eu/sklep
The publication appeared thanks to the support of: Helios Cinemas Network
Co-operation: City of Krakow and Krakow Festival Office
Patronage Self-government of the Gliwice City
Media patrons: The Przekrój weekly and Polish Radio 3
“Crowds of girls will want to climb up higher, higher than possible, higher than life. Up to the clouds, maybe even stars. And they will look down on their previous home with suddenly small LCD screen.”
Sylwia Chutnik
“Although Ceclia is a painter, her tree project is not exclusively artistic for me. It is environmental, as it brings the trees back to us, people.”
Adam Wajrak
Cecylia Malik - a graduate of Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Co-creator of the Art Farm and the club Mały Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow. For the project 365 Trees, received the title Culturist of 2010 from the Instructors of the Radiowy Dom Kultury programme (Polish Radio 3). Nominated to the Kulturalne Odloty award of the Krakow Gazeta Wyborcza daily (winners will be announced on the 5th February 2011).
We invite you to an eventful author’s evening of Cecylia Malik on 11th February in Krakow-details coming soon.
CECYLIA MALIK: 365 TREES
Publisher: Fundacja Nowej Kultury Bęc Zmiana, Warsaw 2011
First edition
ISBN 978-83-62418-05-3
Orders: www.funbec.eu/sklep
The publication appeared thanks to the support of: Helios Cinemas Network
Co-operation: City of Krakow and Krakow Festival Office
Patronage Self-government of the Gliwice City
Media patrons: The Przekrój weekly and Polish Radio 3
