Exposition "Ulica Tadeusza Kantora"

Hommage à Tadeusz Kantor

Bogdan Korczowski Photographies

August-September 2010

CRICOTEKA
5, rue Kanonicza, Krakow, Cracovie

Bogdan Korczowski's "Tadeusz Kantor's Street" exhibition at the Cricoteka Archive is a survey of photographs from the stage of the Cricot 2 theatre in Paris in the 1980s

Bogdan Korczowski was born in 1954 in Cracow. In 1978 he graduated from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of professor Wlodzimierz Kunz. He made his debut at the "Nowa Ruda" festival in 1974 with his performance "White Bike" ("Bialy Rower"), inspired by Tadeusz Kantor's theatrical happenings. Over the years, Bogdan Korczowski has devoted a significant chunk of his work to Kantor's legacy, including a series of painting installations between 1990- 2000, entitled "Kartonteka".

"I have been following Tadeusz Kantor's work very closely", says Korczowski. "Once, when a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, in spring of 1975 after having seen preview presentations of 'The Dead Class', I knew that I would pay tribute to him one day. After I moved to Paris in 1980, three years later I presented my first homage - drawings and lithographs inspired by his works. Tadeusz Kantor spent a lot of time in Paris in the 80's. Thanks to his kindness, I was allowed to take pictures throughout all of the performances, not forgetting of course that I was a painter, not a photographer. I took these pictures with the slide technique, just for myself as my own interpretation of his theatre. I tried to create these slides as if they were paintings, manipulating their colour and sharpness", says Korczowski.