Dimensions: 70 x 80 cm
On the painting loom two exhibition stickers from the Museum of Art in Lodz and a sticker from an exhibition in Stockholm in 1976
Provenance
gift from the artist
collection of Achille Perilli, Italy
private collection, Italy
Exhibited
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages", Museum of Art in Lodz, 25.05-29.06.1975
"Tadeusz Kantor, emballage", Galleriet, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 31.10.1975-6.01.1976
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-76", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 22.09-31.10.1976
"Le opera di Tadeusz Kantor. Pittori di Cricot 2" as part of the exhibition "L'avanguardia polacca 1918-1978. S.I. Witkiewicz, costruttivismo, artisti contemporanei", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 27.01-4.03.1979; transferred to Palazzo Reale, Milan, 24.04-5.05.1979
"White with the Color of Snow. Tadeusz Kantor and the Artists of Cricot 2. Rome 1979", Cricoteka, Cracow, 4.03-11.06.2017
Literature
Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages, cat. exhibition, compiled by. Wieslaw Borowski, Museum of Art in Lodz, 1975, cat. no. XI.1, nlb
Tadeusz Kantor, emballage, cat. of exhibitions, edited by Gösta Lilja et al, Galleriet, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 1975, cat. pos. 57, p. 16
Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-1976, cat. exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1976, cat. no. 36, p. 13.
Le opera di Tadeusz Kantor. Pittori di Cricot 2, cat. exhib., Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 1979, cat. no. 1 (from the series "Conceptual Emballages"), p. 94
Alicja Kępińska, New Art. Polish Art in the Years 1945-1978, Auriga Art and Film Publishing House, Warsaw 1981, p. 209 (mentioned)
White with the Color of Snow. Tadeusz Kantor and the Artists of Cricot 2. Rome 1979, cat. exhib. ed. by Natalia Zarzecka et al, Cricoteka, Kraków 2017, pp. 54, 165
Cf:
Tadeusz Kantor. Ambalages, Foksal Gallery PSP Publishing House, Warsaw 1976, p. 35 ("Conceptual Ambalages")
Biography
In 1939 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish artistic avant-garde of the post-war era, and above all the creator of the Polish avant-garde experimental underground theater, and from 1956 the Cricot 2 theater in Cracow. He was a co-founder and member of the Group of Modern Artists in 1945. In 1955 he traveled to Paris, where he encountered the latest trends in world art. In his work, the main form of artistic expression was abstract painting, especially of the informel type, he was also involved in printmaking; he arranged happenings, was involved in stage design and film. He was active as a teacher: in 1948 and 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and in 1961 at the academy in Hamburg. Among other awards, he won the Goethe Foundation Prize in 1978 in Switzerland.
