Edward Krasinski (1925 Lutsk in Volhynia - 2004 Warsaw), "Intervention," 1975

Origin:
private collection, Poland

Biography
In Cracow during the war, he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule. After the war, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In the 1950s, he moved to Warsaw. He has been exhibiting since 1962. Initially he was associated with the Crooked Circle Gallery circle. After its closure, in 1966, together with critics Wiesław Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska and Mariusz Tchorek and artists Tadeusz Kantor, Henryk Stażewski and Zbigniew Gostomski, he was a co-founder of Warsaw's Foksal Gallery, where he repeatedly exhibited his works (15 solo exhibitions, the last in February 2004), with a break in 1970-1984. Since 1970, he lived together with Henryk Stażewski in a studio on the top floor of a block of flats on Świerczewskiego Street (now Solidarności Avenue). He also had numerous exhibitions in other Polish and foreign galleries (including in 2003 at the Anton Kern Gallery in New York). A representative of the avant-garde, since the 1970s the hallmark of his works was a blue adhesive tape, placed on the works at a height of 130 cm. Popular in artistic circles, the hero of many anecdotes. The work of Edward Krasinski is a very complex, ephemeral and elusive phenomenon. For the most important aspect of it was the very life of this artist and his creative attitude towards reality, which was expressed through "life in art". He constantly influenced the world with his personality, irony, humor, challenging and questioning in subtle ways the traditional forms of art manifestation and its meanings. Edward Krasinski's works are in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw, the Art Museum in Lodz and the National Gallery in Prague, among others.