Kantor i Małgorzata
Kantor and Margarita

Summary/Abstract: The art of Tadeusz Kantor reveals discernible and incessant strife with subjectivity and a sui generisgame played with the mirrors of identity. Such self-observation is served not only by the theatre stage and the characters appearing on it, but also the artist’s activity in the realm of the visual arts. Eternity and death, emergence and concealment, isolation and message are manifested in transitions upwards from profundity, and from nothingness towards motion as well as in the human-inhuman actors-objects. Marionettes, puppets, kuklasand mannequins are an omnipresent motif in Kantor’s oeuvre. Artificial but created as a semblance of man they too overcome the presence / non-presence opposition. According to this interpretation emptiness (and isolation) is for the awareness most terrifying because ultimately it proves to be all that exists.

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