 Tadeusz Paszko A cross, rosary beads, pictures of saints, wedding photos. White ceiling and black floorboards. And a colander, a flour sieve. Tin pots and faience plates. A sheer bulb illuminates the belongings. Someone who would say: "it is poverty" would be mistaken. People do not need much to be happy. Those from Tadeusz Paszko's paintings have everything. Job, home, faith, energy. Look, here's a golden cornfield, a scythe and gnarled hands. Someone who would say: "the pictures show sadness and nostalgia" would also be mistaken. In the painting there is order. This is the order of the world. And painting discipline. And more, people's internal, spiritual order. On their faces there is no grimace of anger, discouragement, tiredness. There is acceptance, cheerfulness. Never resignation. And what about old age? And poverty? These people are not touched by old age. They are just loaded with the luggage of many years. And live in wealth. They have a roof over their heads and walking sticks in their hands. Tobacco is drying on walls whitewashed with lime. Soon it will be sold and the bills for electricity and salt will be paid. The old age does not terrify. It is like late autumn, like leafless branches, which are shown in this painting with surprising tenderness. These people acquired the grace of peace. I have written "acquired" - but they probably received it. They were granted it by the Creator, or perhaps by the artist. Probably by God, because the artist is only his hand. And what about people talking to others? They weigh every word, every gesture. As if their lives depended on it. I look at wedding guests gathered around the table. Dignity, gravity. Also in dance. As if the wedding party were a Sacrament, like wedding. Ascetic silhouettes, thin and crooked, freeze in their tracks, in their reverence and spirituality. They have a mission to accomplish here, on earth. They are apostles. No wonder, they do not need much to live. To fly. Only aureoles are missing over their heads. Because they are Saints. God's Saints. Zbigniew W. Fronczek
Tadeusz Paszko Born in 1968, in Szczebrzeszyn. He graduated from the State College of Fine Arts in Zamość in 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in Prof. Michał Bylina's workshop, where he was awarded a diploma with distinction (in 1974). From 1974 to 2001 he was a teacher of drawing and painting in the State College of Fine Arts in Nałęczów. He practises easel painting, realizing the following cycles: Landscape , Church Interiors , Papal Cycle , Cottages . address: ul. Henryka Sienkiewicza 11, 24-150 Nałęczów, tel. 081 501 55 09
Individual Exhibitions
1975 . Nałęczów, Pałac Małachowskich 1976 . Zamość, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych 1979 . Lublin, Katedra Lubelska - Sala Akustyczna . Puławy, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych 1981 . Warszawa, Muzeum Archidiecezji Warszawskiej 1989 . Zamość, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej 1990 . Nałęczów, Pałac Małachowskich 1991 . Siedlce, Muzeum Okręgowe . Pionki, Galeria Format . Radom, Klub Środowisk Twórczych . Lublin, Galeria Stara BWA 1992 . Puławy, Dom Chemika 2003 . Nałęczów, Mała Galeria 2005 . Lublin, Archidiecezjalne Muzeum Sztuki Religijnej . Lubartów, Biblioteka Publiczna 2006 . Lublin, Archidiecezjalne Muzeum Sztuki Religijnej . Hrubieszów, Mała Galeria Sztuki Hrubieszowskiego Domu Kultury . Krasnystaw, Muzeum Regionalne 2007 . Zwoleń, Galeria Fotografii i Plastyki, Dom Kultury
Group Exhibitions
1975 . Lublin, Wystawa Lubelskiego Okręgu ZPAP , BWA 1995 . Zamość, Muzeum Okręgowe 2005 . Zamość, Galeria Zamojska BWA . Lublin, Autograf 2004 , Muzeum Lubelskie . Warszawa, Kościół św. Tomasza Apostoła, Galeria na Emporach . Wystawa o przenikaniu kultur - prawosławni, Łemkowie, Polacy, Nowy Sącz, . Chrzanów, Jaworzno, Olkusz, Będzin, Katowice, Cieszyn, Krynica 2006 . Warszawa, Kościół św. Tomasza Apostoła, Galeria na Emporach . Wystawa o przenikaniu kultur- Na peryferiach miast i miasteczek, Chrzanów, . Jaworzno, Trzebinia |
