Artysta-pielgrzym. Stulecie urodzin Tadeusza Kantora
Artist-pilgrim. The Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Tadeusz Kantor

Summary/Abstract: The sketch depicts Tadeusz Kantor, an artist-pilgrim traversing the world, affiliated with Odysseus-Ulysses, and rendering the journey and the return the artistic motif of his life. Joseph Beuys, Tadeusz Kantor, and James Joyce, another twentieth-century Ulysses, are related realists of the imagination and archaeologists of memory, with epiphany as the characteristic feature of their oeuvre. While painting, creating theatre spectacles, drawing, and staging life and artistic happenings, self-commentaries and spectacles, Kantor performed revelations of the mundane. he assembled spectacles of recollections, put together revues of emotions, and spoke about his “poor room of the imagination”. The themes, distinguished into groups, permeated each other and recurred. The boundary between life and its absence remains fluid. Kantor applied the selfquotation, the travesty, and the paraphrase. he was an archaeologist and a revolutionary who feared immobilization but cultivated the past. Finally, he disclosed reality concealed beneath all forms of illusion and appearances.

• Details
• Contents