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Date: February 5, 2013 10:36:21 AM EST
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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Małgorzata Potocka's "The Guardian of the Past" at the Ukrainian Museum, NYC


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Polish Cultural Institute New York
The Ukrainian Museum
and the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University
present

THE GUARDIAN OF THE PAST
dir. Małgorzata Potocka
Screening and Q&A with Director

February 17, 2013, 2:00 pm
The Ukrainian Museum, New York City


New York, January 24, 2013 – Małgorzata Potocka is coming to The Ukrainian Museum in New York city to discuss her award-winning documentary,The Guardian of the Past, about art historian Borys Voznytsky, who fought relentlessly under Soviet tyranny to preserve some twelve thousand works of Ukrainian and Polish sacred art. Voznytsky spent decades traveling around Ukraine and its abandoned churches in search of neglected icons, religious paintings, sculptures, and liturgical objects. Potocka’s film offers an exclusive peek at the collection, maintained until today at the St. Bernard Monastery in Olesko, Ukraine, where Voznytsky first hid it.

Borys Voznytsky (1926-2012) was a revered art historian, long-time director of the L’viv National Art Gallery, honorary member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, doctor emeritus of the Kraków Pedagogical Academy, and chairman of the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). During World War II he served in the Soviet Army, but once the war was over he enrolled in the Ivan Trush (Trusz) School of Fine Arts, and subsequently went on to study art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1960, he became a deputy director of the National Museum of Art in Ukraine, and in 1962 – the head of the L’viv National Art Gallery. At that time, the gallery consisted of approximately 10,000 artifacts, housed in a single room; during Voznytsky’s term as the Director, the collection grew exponentially, prompting the extension of the gallery by 15 additional sections. During the 1960s and 70s, he engaged art historians and enthusiasts to preserve some 12,000 museum-worthy artifacts, which otherwise would have been destroyed as a part of the Soviet campaign against religion. The works of art salvaged from abandoned churches, houses and convents were then housed in castles administered by Voznytsky. The collection boasts a large selection of sculptures by the Galician Baroque sculptor Johann Georg Pinzel, known among researchers as the “Slavic Michelangelo.” The exhibition Johann Georg Pinsel: Un sculpteur baroque en Ukraine au XVIIIe siecle, on display at the Louvre in Paris through February 25, 2013, “would have not taken place without [Borys Voznytsky's] many years of work,” said the curator Hilem Scherf in an interview published in an Ukrainian paper The Day. Late in his career, Voznytsky’s explorations expanded to churches of more recent periods. The fact that the L’viv National Art Gallery is currently home to 60,000 works is a lasting testimony to his steadfast dedication, hard work, and undying love for the arts. Borys Voznytsky died in a car accident on the way to one of the sites he cared for in the spring of 2012.

After the screening Malgorzata Potocka will speak about the very special relationship she developed with this “Ukrainian hero” while filming her documentary, and about fundraising efforts to build a museum that could house a permanent exhibition of this trove of icons, portraits, sculptures, and paintings dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries.

Małgorzata Maria Potocka (b. 1953) is a Polish actress, director, photographer, and producer of documentaries, experimental film, and video. She studied acting and directing at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland. In 1985, she has been a lecturer at the Boston Arts Academy. She is most famous for her role in Andrzej Wajda’s Everything for Sale (1968), and she starred in The Crystal Ball (1972) by Stanisław Różewicz and in The Circus is Leaving (1982), directed by Krzysztof Wierzbiański. Her photographic work has been shown in Warsaw, Kraków, Paris, Budapest and New York. Since 1980, Potocka has been a member of Society for Creators of Culture and the Polish Filmmakers’ Association, major organizations involved in promoting Polish art and culture abroad.

The Guardian of the Past
Poland, 2004,
Directed by Małgorzata Potocka. Produced by Andrzej Stempowski. Music: Borys Somershaf
In Polish, with Ukrainian and  English subtitles

Presented by The Ukrainian Museum, The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
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PRESS CONTACT:  Polish Cultural Institute, Marzena Dawidziuk, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, 212-239-7300 x 3009<tel:212-239-7300%20x%203009>
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WHAT:  The Guardian of the Past
WHEN:  Sunday, Feb 17, 2013; 2pm
WHERE:  The Ukrainian Museum 222 East 6th Street, New York City
(212) 228-0110<tel:%28212%29%20228-0110>
ADMISSION: Tickets ($15 adults, $10 members and seniors, $5 students) may be purchased at the Museum during gallery hours, Wed-Sun 11:30 am - 5 pm. or online anytime (click Tickets):
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/<http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop/display.php?cat=26>
Admission includes access to gallery exhibitions and a reception after the screening.
DIRECTIONS:  Subway 6 to Astor Place; N,R to 8th St. Bus–M15 – 2nd Ave. (downtown) and 1st Ave. (uptown)

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.polishculture-nyc.org<http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/index.cfm?eventId=1970>
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The POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW YORK, established in 2000, is a diplomatic mission to the United States serving under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

The Institute’s mission is to build, nurture and promote cultural ties between the United States and Poland by presenting Polish culture to American audiences and by connecting Polish artists and scholars to American institutions, introducing them to their professional counterparts in the United States, and facilitating their participation in contemporary American culture.

The Institute has been producing and promoting a broad range of cultural events in theater, music, film, literature, the humanities, and visual arts. Among its American partners are such distinguished organizations as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Brooklyn Academy of Music; The Museum of Modern Art; The Jewish Museum; The PEN American Center; The Poetry Society of America; National Gallery of Art; Yale University; Columbia University; Princeton University; Harvard Film Archive; CUNY Graduate Center; Julliard School of Music; The New Museum; La MaMa E.T.C.; and many more. Our programs have included American presentations of works by such luminaries as filmmakers Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski; writers Czesław Miłosz, Adam Zagajewski and Wisława Szymborska; composers Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski and Mikołaj Górecki; theatre directors Krystian Lupa, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor and Grzegorz Jarzyna; visual artists Alina Szapocznikow, Katarzyna Kozyra, Krzysztof Wodiczko; and many other important artists, writers, historians, scholars, musicians, and performers.
www.PolishCulture-NYC.org<http://www.PolishCulture-NYC.org>
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THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM The Ukrainian Museum is the largest museum in the U.S. committed to acquiring, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting articles of artistic or historic significance to the rich cultural heritage of Ukrainians. At its founding in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America, the Museum was hailed as one of the finest achievements of the Ukrainian American community. Today, its unparalleled array of folk art, exceptional collection of fine art, and extensive compendium of archival materials make it one of the most unique and dynamic museums in New York City, with broad appeal for diverse audiences. Each year, the Museum organizes several exhibitions, publishes accompanying bilingual catalogues, and conducts a wide range of public programming, frequently in collaboration with other museums, educational institutions, and cultural centers.
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/
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THE UKRAINIAN FILM CLUB OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY is a forum for showcasing the best of Ukrainian cinema, both classic and new, as well as films about Ukraine, made in other countries to the Greater New York public and to film enthusiasts across the United States and Canada. Since its establishment in October 2004, the Club has been the only permanent platform for Ukrainian film in North America and a unique international initiative connecting Ukrainian filmmakers with the world. The Club has built one of the biggest collections of Ukrainian films with English subtitles in the USA.http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc/

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