Od eksperymentów Bauhausu do Teatru Galeria

The article presents the history of a still little known, set apart theatre, the Galeria formed by Jerzy Krechowicz in Gdansk in 1961. In less than a decade, the visual artists and musicians of the theatre carried out a number of significant experiments involving movement, light and sound onstage, which resulted in five programmes. The author notes that the final formula of poly-visual spectacle arrived at by Jerzy Krechowicz, which involved multi-stream projection onto three-dimensional screens, had much in common with ideas propounded by László Moholy-Nagy, an artist associated with Bauhaus. In his theoretical writings, published in the 1920s, Moholy-Nagy declared, among other things, that it was necessary to replace traditional painting with shaping of light and expand the potential of projection by simultaneous projection of pictures onto screens of different shapes. Krechowicz’s interest in the progressive dimension of the art work corresponded to artistic experiments conducted a few years earlier by Andrzej Pawłowski, most of all to his improvised light projections called Kineformy (“Cineforms”, 1959), as well as to tachiste painting actions by Tadeusz Kantor, recorded in the film Somnambulicy (“Somnambulists”, 1958). Furthermore, the author situates the experiments by Polish artists in the context of kinetic art and expanded cinema around the world.