Tadeusz
Kantor (1915-1990) is one of the most significant Polish artists of the twentieth
century. A painter, assemblagist, set designer and theatre director, Kantor
was a pioneer among the artists of the 1960s avant garde in Europe. Alongside
his work as a visual artist he was also a theater reformer, attaining world
renown in the 1970s with the traveling theater group Cricot 2 from Krakow,Poland,
which he had established in the mid-1950s. Today Kantor is often cited as
an inspiration by artists interested in his performative approach to contemporary
art.
