The Private Hidden Art of Janusz Kaczorowski
The Private Hidden Art of Janusz Kaczorowski

Summary/Abstract: Artistic practice of Janusz Kaczorowski, of which only a few traces remain in the collectionsof institutions and in private hands, is characterised by surprisingly high quality of intellectualreflection. With his attitude and works, the artist affected several young artists and he isstill remembered as an extraordinary personality. He created an original hidden art conceptthat avoids public presentation. I submit the idea expressed in The Private Manifesto of HiddenArt in a detailed analysis in the second part of the text. I locate the source of this idea inthe examples of the artist’s reflection and works dedicated to the permanent presence ofimages and symbols of a totalitarian state in the iconosphere, which display the characteristicsof a subversive artistic approach. Kaczorowski, a leftist and a socially engaged person,consistently embodied artistic ideas in life, and the several works that he left behind shouldbe seen in terms of the power that generates acts of cessation, concealment and withdrawal.

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