Witkacy fue un artista polaco cuya obra desafía la fácil categorización. Como escritor, dramaturgo, pintor, filósofo y teórico del arte, profundizó en las profundidades de la psique y la sociedad humana. Sus visiones estaban adelantadas a su tiempo y su agudo juicio sigue resonando. La obra de Witkacy, con sus perspicaces profecías e intelecto mordaz, cautiva constantemente a nuevas generaciones.
In den frühen zwanziger Jahren suchte Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, kurz Witkacy genannt, neue Wege, um das »intuitive Bild« einer Person treffender festzuhalten. Das veranlaßte ihn, sich mit der spontanen oder »automatischen« Zeichnung zu beschäftigen oder unter dem Einfluß von Rauschmitteln zu arbeiten. Einige dieser Experimente fanden im Rahmen seiner »Portrait-Firma« statt.
Witkiewicz established rules for his portrait work, marking paintings with symbols indicating the substances he had consumed or abstained from. Type C portraits were created under the influence of alcohol and "narcotics of a superior grade," resulting in abstract compositions he termed "Pure Form." Various drugs produced distinct distortions and effects, often reflecting the subject's preferences. Some portraits indicated the number of days without smoking or drinking, while type D works aimed for similar results without artificial means. Different substances influenced color combinations and highlighted various aspects of the subject's features or psyche, exemplified by a series of self-portraits created with beer and cocaine. Informed by earlier drug writings and anticipating future explorations of psychoactive substances, Witkacy's 1930 work discusses his experimentation and the nature of addiction, critiquing societal attitudes toward drugs deemed "acceptable." As life mechanized, he believed metaphysical experiences could only be achieved artificially, paralleling Henri Michaux's extensive visual art created under substance influence. Witkacy's acerbic, meandering prose, filled with neologisms and multilingual expressions, critiques Polish society and the art world, exposing the hypocrisy surrounding drug use. Since its 1930s publication, this work has gained cult status in Poland as a modernist classic. This edition fe
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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz je jedným z najvýznamnejších poľských dramatikov 20. storočia. Predznamenal existencializmus i absurdnú drámu, jeho poetika miešania žánrov a foriem je blízka postmodernému vnímaniu sveta. Prvé knižné vydanie Witkiewiczových hier na Slovensku prináša tituly Nové oslobodenie, V malej kúrii, Chobotnica, Šialená lokomotíva, Blázon a mníška a Matka (preložili Barbora Ertlová, Ján Štrbák, Michal Choluj, verše prebásnil Viliam Klimáček). Hry dopĺňajú štúdie Barbory Ertlovej a Ladislava Volka a podrobné kalendárium.
