oil on canvas/ 135x95cm
ZBIGNIEW WARPECHOWSKI, performer, painter, poet, philosopher of art. He was born in 1938 in Ploski.
Since 1967 he has been practicing performance art, which makes him a forerunner of this trend, not only in Poland, but also internationally. To date, he has authored more than three hundred performances in many countries in Europe, Asia and North America. In 1985 he became a member of the Krakow Group, and since 1986 he was a member of the legendary Black Market, an international group of performance art pioneers such as Norbert Klassen, Alastair MacLennan, Nigel Rolfe, Zygmunt Piotrowski and others. Lately, he has also been leaning more and more towards painting in its almost classical form, both in terms of technique and subjects covered.
In 2014, there was an extensive retrospective exhibition of Zbigniew Warpechowski at the Zachęta - National Gallery of Art under the title "It", and in 2017, also there, a "Ceremonial Performance" on the occasion of the artist's 50th anniversary in the field of action art.
The artist's works are in the collections of, among others: The National Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the National Museum in Krakow, the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, the Museum of Art in Lodz, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the Leon Wyczółkowski Museum in Bydgoszcz and many others, as well as private collections. Zbigniew Warpechowski's works can be seen at the T L E N art gallery in Miasteczko Wilanów.
