Dimensions: 180 x 136 cm
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Kantor | 1988 | CRACOVIE'.
on the reverse a sticker from Galerie de France and a transport sticker
Origins
Galerie de France, Paris
Polswiss Art, 2004
Exhibited
Tadeusz Kantor, "Plus Loin, Rien!", Galerie de France, 23.06-1.09.1989
"Visions espanyoles de Tadeusz Kantor," Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma, March - April 2003
"Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The year we made contact", Art Stations, Poznań, 4.11.2010-21.01.2011
"Tadeusz Kantor. I'm bloody falling down", Cricoteca Centre for the Documentation of the Work of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, 23.10.2015-27.03.2016
Literature
Mieczysław Porębski, T. Kantor. Testimonies. Conversations. Commentaries, Warsaw 1997, pp. 118 (il.), 220
Tadeusz Kantor: la escena de la memoria, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Tom Skipp, Fundación Arte y Tecnología, Madrid, Barcelona 1997
Kantor. Spanish motifs in the work of Tadeusz Kantor, exhibition catalog [ed.] Zofia Golubiew, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow 1999, p. 21 (il.).
Tadeusz Kantor. Wandering, Cricoteka, Kraków 2000, p. 129, item 251 (ill.).
I have something to tell you: Tadeusz Kantor - self-portraits, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Zofia Golubiew, National Museum in Krakow,
Kraków 2000, p. 19, cat. no. 8 (ill.)
Kantor: Spanish motifs in Tadeusz Kantor's work, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Magdalena Zadura, Adam Mickiewicz Institute,
Warsaw 2002
Visions espanyoles de Tadeusz Kantor, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Zofia Golubev, Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma 2003,
cat. no. 38
Landscape in Tadeusz Kantor's Painting and Drawing, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Małgorzata Jurkiewicz, Cricoteca Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Cracow 2005, p. 33 (ill.)
Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The year we made contact, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Paulina Kolczyńska, Art Stations Foundation,
Poznan 2011
Tadeusz Kantor, Damn I'm falling!, exhibition catalog, Cricoteka, Kraków 2015, pos. 5 (ill.)
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 Krakow. 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.
