installation/canvas, dove (taxidermy)
Dimensions: 130 x 120 x 3 cm
stamped p.d.
Signed and dated on the reverse: 'T. Kantor | 1974'
on the reverse a Galerie de France sticker and transport stickers
Origins
Galerie de France, Paris
Exhibited
"Tadeusz Kantor. Everything hangs in the balance," Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, March 1973
"Le opere di Tadeusz Kantor. I pittori di Cricot 2. Il teatro Cricot 2", Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 27.01-4.03.1979
"Métamorphoses", Galerie de France, Paris,1982
"Tadeusz Kantor. Ma Création, Mon Voyage," Galerie de France, Paris,1991
"Tadeusz Kantor - Impossible," Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, June-July 2000; Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw,
07.04-20.05.2001; Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 19.10-2.12.2001
"Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The year we made contact", Art Stations, Poznań, 4.11.2010-21.01.2011.
Literature
"Métamorphoses," exhibition catalog, Galerie de France, Paris 1982
"Tadeusz Kantor. Ma Création, Mon Voyage", exhibition catalog, Galerie de France, introduction by Guy Scarpetta , Paris 1991
Tadeusz Kantor. Everything Hangs by a Thread, exhibition catalog, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw 1973, cat. no. 8, pp. nlb. (list of works)
Le opere di Tadeusz Kantor. I pittori di Cricot 2. Il teatro Cricot 2, exhibition catalog, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome 1979, cat. item 8 (Dal ciclo: E' tutto appeso ad un filo: "La tela e la colomba"), p. 94.
Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The Year We Made Contact, exhibition catalog, Art Stations, Poznań 2011, p. 42 (il.).
Biography
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1939. 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 of 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.