Spotkanie Kantora i Beuysa – wystawa Beuys / Kantor: Remembering
A Meeting of Kantor and Beuys – the ‘Beuys | Kantor: Remembering’ Exhibition

Summary/Abstract: A description of the author’s encounter with Tadeusz Kantor and Joseph Beuys and the heritage of the two wandering artists. J. Jedliński organised numerous displays of works by Beuys and several Kantor shows. Until 2012 each artist was featured at one-man exhibitions. In 2012 the Israel Museum in Jerusalem held the Beuys I Kantor: Remembering exhibition, with Polish-German-Jewish relations as the contents of reconstructed memory. The Beuys and Kantor oeuvreis suffused with memory, and both artists rendered time the matter of their works. Kantor “sought lost time”, while Beuys tried to shape time that was to come. In doing so, they created a total work. Beuys described art as a “vehicle of energy”, searched for an embodiment of “anthropological art” yet to be born, and celebrated “shaman” rituals. Kantor returned to archetypes and clichés, and was an archaeologist of the recollection. he also rebelled against emotions, while Beuys - against ideas.

• Details
• Contents