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Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990), The Dead Class, 1975

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Estimations: 213 - 320 EUR
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Design of scenery, props and costumes for the show.
Photography on baryta paper. Dimensions: 18 x 24 cm
Signature from the print: p.d.: T. Kantor, 1975, at the bottom: la classe marte
On the reverse: stamps of atelier and gallery

Tadeusz Kantor
(1915 Wielopole Skrzyńskie - 1990 Kraków). Avant-garde artist, painter, draughtsman, art theoretician, stage designer and director, author of happenings, outstanding reformer of 20th century theater, one of the most important figures of artistic life in Poland. From 1934 to 1939 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. During the occupation, he founded the Underground Independent Theater, where he staged productions of Juliusz Słowacki's Balladyna (1943) and Stanisław Wyspiański's Return of Odysseus (1944). Co-founder of the Group of Young Visual Artists, bringing together Krakow avant-garde artists. In 1948, he co-organized the First Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow, where he showed metaphorical paintings. From the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, he designed sets and costumes for professional theaters. Between 1950 and 1954, he withdrew from official artistic life, protesting against the doctrine of Socialist Realism. In 1955, referring to the pre-war Cricot Artists' Theater, he founded the Cricot 2 Theater with Maria Jarema and Kazimierz Mikulski. In 1957, together with other artists, he reactivated the Cracow Group. As part of the Cricot 2 Theater, based on the plays of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, he produced the Autonomous Theater(Mątwa, 1956), the Informel Theater(In a Small Manor, 1961), the Zero Theater (Wariat i zakonnica, 1963), the Happening Theater (Kurka wodna, 1967), the Impossible Theater(Nadobnisie i koczkodany, 1973) in successive productions. Kantor's paintings were inspired by the latest trends in world art, which he had the opportunity to encounter during many trips abroad, including to Paris and New York. On the basis of these experiences, he created paintings in the informel trend, Dadaism, or, finally, those referring to conceptual art. In the early 1960s, he completely abandoned the depiction of reality, pursuing, among other things, his original idea of ambalages. Since 1965, he carried out a number of artistic actions and happenings, collaborating with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw (including Panoramic Sea Happening in 1967, Lesson of anatomy according to Rembrandt, 1968). In 1975, he announced the manifesto of the Theater of Death, realizing the legendary performance Dead Class. In the 1980s, he showed with the Cricot 2 Theater his next famous productions Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Let the Artists Die (1985) and I Shall Never Return (1988). It was also at this time that a significant turn in his painting work took place - a return to figurative paintings. Toward the end of his life, he created, among other things, a meaningful series of paintings Further Already Nothing, in which he settled accounts with his own life and work. In 1990 Kantor prepared his last performance Today Is My Birthday, which was shown by Cricot 2 Theater after the artist's death.

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Art auction - Light of melancholy
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12 February 2023 CET/Warsaw
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