"The death of Badylak"
-1981-
Here are the facts
For the purpose of understanding in order to understand
One morning in 1980 a man chains himself to a small well in the Market Place of Krakow, pours petrol on his body
and sets fire to it. On his chest he had attached e metal panel with a message.The Police arrive, hide the panel
and then only extinguish the fire and call for an ambulance. The man : M Badylak is dead. The metal panel has never
been found.
In 1981, in order to end the revindications of the Labour Union "Solidarnosc" and the preserve the pro-sovietic
government in Poland, general Jaruzelski declares a state of war.
E. Waniek painted this picture and to general dismay presented it at the 1986 exhibition. Dismay because the exhibition
could not refuse to expose a painting of an artist so well known and respected, but it was not possible either
to take a risk with the careers of the members of the jury. Finally the painting was shown only at the 1988 exhibition
of the Historical Museum of Krakow.
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"Smierc Badylaka "
- 1981-
Aby odczytac sens, przypomnijmy fakty.
W 1980r, pewien czlowiek nazwiskiem Badylak, pewnego poranka, przywiazal sie lancuchem do studzienki na rynku
krakowskim, polal benzyna i zapalil.
Przywiazal na piersi balszana tabliczke z napisem
Milicjanci ktorzy nadbiegli z pobliskiego komisariatu zabrali tabliczke, poczym zgasili ogien i sprowadzili ambulans.
Badylak umarl, tabliczki nigdy nie znaleziono.
W 1981 roku, aby polozyc koniec rewindykacjom syndykatu robotniczego "Solidarnosc" , i aby zachowac rezim
prosowiecki general Jaruzelski
proklamaowal, pewnej nocy grudniowej, stan wojenny w Polsce.
E. Waniek namolowal i ku ogolnej konsternacji
zaprezentowal ten obraz na salon 1986.
Konsternacji bo nie mozna odrzucic obrazu artysty powszechnie znanego i szanowanego, ale tez nie mozna ryzykowac
kariery czlonkow jury.
W koncu, obraz zostal wystawiony dopiero w 1988 roku przez Muzeum Historyczne Krakowa
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