Junghans Theatre, Giudecca 494
6th June – 8th July from 2.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.
10th July – 30th September from 6th p.m. to 10.00 p.m.

Theatre Junghans will house – from 6th June in parallel with the 52nd International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale – Blood of Poet, by Lech Majewski: he is a poet, film-maker and video artist known all over the world. His video works have been shown in the Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Art of Atlanta and Buenos Aires and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. One of Majewski’s retrospectives was presented at the MOMA, New York and now it will be moved to the National Gallery, Washington.
In Junghans Theatre Majewski will present Blood of Poet, a unique cycle of 33 correlated videos and some photos which show the memories of childhood of a poet at odds with himself and the rest of the world, remembering the days when he was shut away in  a psychiatric ward.
Majewski had already dealt with such theme in other important works of his such as Basquiat Wojaczek, by visually representing and questioning the creative consciousness of the artist and the role-playing that occurs between childhood and adulthood.
Through the process of remembering proposed by Majewski the video cycle rejects dialogue and chronology. The collected short films are correlated and overlap with one another and ask the viewer to develop a new method of interpretation as well as to conceive of new narrative intersections.

For information Junghans Theatre 041-2411974