Zbigniew Warpechowski

Zbigniew Warpechowski (born October 10, 1938 in Volhynia ) is a Polish performance , conceptual artist and set designer .

life and work

Warpechowski studied from 1956 to 1963 at the Technical University of Cracow and from 1964 to 1965 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow . In 1985 Warpechowski co-founded Black Market International , a performance artist group .

Paintings have been created since 1962 and poetry since 1964, which then evolved into performance around 1967. Zbigniew Warpechowski showed around 260 performances in 26 countries and was a participant in documenta 8 . “Being and Doing” (1984), with Stuart Brisley , was shown in 2014 at Galeria Zachęta . His performances were also shown in the Ujazdowski Castle and in the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie . Paintings by Zbigniew Warpechowski are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw , Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi , Muzeum Okręgowe im. Leona Wyczółkowskiego w Bydgoszczy, Regional Museum - Koszalin.

Zbigniew Warpechowski is the production designer for the films Ghosts by Wojciech Marczewski (1979), Golem by Piotr Szulkin (1980) and many more.

Web links

• Zbigniew Warpechowski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website Zbigniew Warpechowski
• Zbigniew Warpechowski Performare 5´
• Zbigniew Warpechowski and defined text

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hiap Artist talk by Zbigniew Warpechowski accessed on 23 August 2015 (English)
2. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 309; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
3. ^ Website Stuart Brisley Stuart Brisley News Zbigniew Warpechowski. It, ZACHĘTA, Warsaw, September 20 - November 11, 2014 accessed on August 23, 2015
4. ↑ The Warsaw Voice Pioneering Performance Art accessed on August 23, 2015 (English)
5. ↑ Kunstaspekte Zbigniew Warpechowski , accessed on August 23, 2015.