Dimensions: 110 x 120 cm
Signed p.d.: 't. Kantor' and inscribed at top: '"théâtre INFORMEL"'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'T. KANTOR | 'People-Attraps' | Theater 'informel' | 1961'.
on the opposite side stickers from Galerie de France, Museum of Art in Lodz, transport, with description of work and export stamp
Exhibited
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages", Museum of Art in Lodz, 25.05-29.06.1975
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-76", Whitechapel Gallery, London, 22.09-31.10.1976
"Métamorphoses," Galerie de France, Paris, 1982
"Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The year we made contact", Art Stations, Poznań, 4.11.2010-21.01.2011
"For every gesture a different actor", Art Stations, Poznań, 17.01-4.05.2014
Literature
Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages, [ed.] Wieslaw Borowski, exhibition catalog, Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz 1975.
Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-76, exhibition catalog, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1976, cat. no. 42, p. 13.
Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The year we made contact, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Paulina Kolczyńska, Art Stations Foundation, Poznań 2011
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 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.