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Work In Progress: News about Jan Sawka's design for the Tower of Light Cultural Complex, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
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We are grieved to inform you that the Sawka Team founder and business manager, Hiroo Nakatani, passed away on December 19, 2006.
New! As of November 26, 2006, Jan Sawka completed a model of his design for a monument to religious coexistence for the city of Jerusalem.
When built, the monument's tallest rods will be 30 meters tall. For more information, click here.
Photo below courtesy of Dennis Stock (copyright Dennis Stock 2006):
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Something to Declare: Jan Sawka's Life in Art
by Jan Sawka
cloth: $50.00 · ISBN: 1-891105-12-4
Forthcoming, 2006
A lavishly illustrated monograph of the life and art of Jan Sawka, internationally known and multi-talented artist. Essays by prominent art and theatre historians accompany examples of Sawka's award-winning poster and theatrical designs, which include sets for the Grateful Dead, multimedia projects, prints, sculptures, and paintings. A landmark book.
At Hanka's Table by Hanka Sawka
cloth: $21.95 · ISBN: 1-891105-09-4
October 2004
A culinary autobiography detailing life behind the Iron Curtain, At Hanka's Table is as much a memoir as it is a cookbook. From tough times in occupied Poland, to exile in Paris and New York, Hanka Sawka cooked, to bring people together, and to create a sense of well-being as only a good meal can do. Fully illustrated and featuring over 100 recipes for Polish specialties, including meals for Christmas and Easter.
What's New
Additions to the site:
-Into the Open Exhibition page
- New images of the newly built model of a monument to religious coexistence for Jerusalem
- More information about The Voyage.
- Information about The Sawka Team.
- The sculpture Cocoon #2
- "At Hanka's Table" Website
Jan Sawka: Into the Open June 19 - July 16th, 2004 Opening reception: Saturday, June 19th 3-6pm ACA Galleries Jan Sawka was born in 1946 in Poland. In 1977, he settled in New York to work as a set designer, printmaker, painter and sculptor. His work can be found in more than 60 museum collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Israeli Museum, Jerusalem; Jagiellonian University Collection, Krakow and National Museum, Warsaw. He has had more than 70 solo shows including one in 1991 at the National Gallery, Krakow. Among the numerous awards and honors received he was recently awarded the Premio Lorenzo in Magnifico Gold Medal in multi-media at the 2003 Florence Biennale. This exhibition is the culmination of ten years of collaborations with international scientists, technicians and organizations. It will include models and documentation of The Tower of Light, (an obelisk to be erected in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), The Essen Towers (and installation consisting of four obelisks to be erected in Essen Germany), and The Peace Monument for Jerusalem. Four interactive sculptures using a specialized phosphorescent glass will showcase for the first time in the United States the technology used in his architectural projects. The Book of Fiction (a set of 25 dry point engravings created by him in 1985), paintings, sculptures and two of his multi-media spectacles, The Voyage and Creation, will also be on view.
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