Stanisław Rodziński
The Chapter of the Medal of the Pontifical Council for Culture “Per Artem Ad Deum” after assessing the five leading candidates of this year’s edition decided to award the medal to Stanisław Rodziński – distinguished artist, painter and essayist. The Chapter justified it’s choice in a short but conclusive sentence, presenting the laurel to Stanisław Rodziński “for the shades of life which embody the quest for solace and reflection upon life’s transience”.
Stanisław Rodziński (born 1940) – painter and essayist. Dean of the Faculty of Painting of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (1993-1996) and Rector of this Academy (1996-2002). He has had several dozen individual exhibitions, and many collective exhibitions. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (Commission for National Education Medal) in 1993, and the Officers’ Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1998. His work in painting, often landscape, is marked by dignity, monumentalism and muffled colours. He is the author of several volumes of essays, usually on subjects connected with the arts.
Other nominees of this year’s edition are:
- Roman Berger – composer, Slovakia
- Philip Gröning – director and documentary film maker, Germany
- Antanas Kmieliauskas – fine artist, Lithuania
- Józef Skrzek – multi-instrumentalist, Poland