The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week, a translation about when my father first came to London in 1936. He talks about his efforts to find somewhere to live and also mentions one of his early, odder, jobs: dr...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Today, a short translation describing my father's last visit to Zakopane with his cousin Jacek. Both were in their 60s. Jacek later died that same year.---Here, I feel younger, bet...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This issue's translation is just a short one as I'm looking after my flu-ravaged daughter (who only just got over RSV, poor thing). The translated excerpt about my father's surpris...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,The Halina Korn exhibition in Toruń comes to an end this week. I'm sorry to say I was unable to see it - a planned trip was cancelled due to sickness. In fact, I think most of Febr...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,In the last edition of the newsletter, I sent you some of my father's thoughts on contemporary art. So for balance, here is an excerpt from his autobiography where he is interviewe...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,My father wasn't just an artist, but also an art journalist and critic. Below is my translation of his thoughts on the New Art exhibition at the Tate (now the Tate Britain) back in...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Over New Year's Eve, my wife and I spent a week in Morocco with our two children.Before we left, my mother told me she'd been to Morocco too with my father in the mid-1970s. And lo...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHappy New Year!For some reason, I thought I'd translate something about somewhere nice in Italy and checked to see if my father had written anything in his autobiography about Rome or...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Seeing as there is an exhibition of Halina Korn's work on in Toruń, I thought I'd translate an excerpt about her from my father's autobiography. It's about the day of her funeral,...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week, a short excerpt from my father's autobiography about his feelings upon marrying my mother. Marek was a strange mix of religious and sinner - often very Catholic and...