Kantor/Wielopole. Reanimacja
Kantor/Wielopole. Reanimation

Summary/Abstract: An attempt at a transition from a presentation of certain artistic and anthropological concepts – often indicated by Tadeusz Kantor as the essential context of his oeuvre– to real places and people. In the artist’s language the “birthplace” is the space of personal experience and contact with one’s memory, in which there takes place the profound and almost impossible task of reconstruction. Its purpose is to recreate the reminiscence, to save from oblivion, and to halt the flow of time. The attitude represented by Kantor towards photography and the manner in which he applied the latter in his Theatre of Death consists of an attempt at (re)animating that, which has been suspended and lasts within the image. The article proposes a certain interpretation perspective for Kantor’s last spectacles, based on identifications by Sławomir Mrożek, Dariusz Czaja, and Jan Kott.

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