Today, December 3, the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local History will open the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)”, which is dedicated to Stanisław Vincenz – an outstanding writer, philosopher of Polish origin, Righteous One of the World, author of the book “On the High Uplands”. The exposition should reveal to the Ukrainian audience the figure of the outstanding Polish writer and philosopher.
The author of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” is literary critic, lecturer at the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw, Doctor of Sciences Jan Andrzej Khoroshy.
The exposition should reveal to the Ukrainian audience the figure of the outstanding Polish writer and philosopher, born in the Hutsul region – the author of the work “On the High Uplands”, which is called “Iliad and Odyssey of the Hutsuls” – Stanisław Vincenz. The most important stages of the writer’s biography are highlighted and the atmosphere of the Ukrainian Carpathians, to which he dedicated his works, is conveyed.
The exhibition was presented in Poland in 2014. The exposition is a biographical story about Stanisław Vincenz against the background of the landscapes of the Hutsul region. The exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” was created on the basis of documents and photographs from the family archives of the families of Vincenz and the Italian photographer Lidio Cipriani, the funds of the Ossolinski National Library, the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, the Polish Museum in Rapperswil (Switzerland), the Association “Literary Institute of Culture in Le Meny-le-Roi” (France) and Polish library in London.
For the first time, the Ukrainian version of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)” was demonstrated in the Verkhovna Rada on November 6.
The initiator of the exhibition, Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine Jan Peklo, Vice-Marshals of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Head of the Polish-Ukrainian Group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland Beata Mazurek, as well as other members of the Polish-Ukrainian Group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland, as well as a literary critic, teacher of the Institute were present at the grand opening. of Polish Philology at the University of Wroclaw, Doctor of Science Jan Andrzej Khoroshy.
After the presentation in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the exhibition travels across Ukraine from Kyiv to the village of Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna District, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, as “On the High Uplands” is devoted to the Hutsul region. It will be exhibited on a permanent basis in Kryvorivnia.
The exhibition about Stanisław Vincenz will be the first “brick” in the creation of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue named after Stanisław Vincenz – a cultural institution of the 21st century, which will open its doors to the first visitors in Kryvorivna in 2020.
The initiator of the exposition in Ukraine is the Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Mykola Kniazhytskyi.
On the Ukrainian side, the event was organized by the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum”. From Polish – by the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw.
