Wladyslaw Hasior, Casanova, 1987

assemblage, wood, plastic, height 40 cm, dia. 13 cm signed, dated and described on the bottom of the base: '"Casanova"/Hasior W./Andrzej I with cordiality HW 1987'.

origin: private collection, Warsaw
exhibited: Hasior: Magical World, 25.04 - 30.05.2013, Municipal House of Culture Gallery, Minsk Mazowiecki; Hasior 30 Years of Gallery, BWA Gorzow Wielkopolski, 2015 reproduced: Hasior: Magical World, Municipal House of Culture Gallery, Minsk Mazowiecki, 2013; Hasior 30 Years of Gallery, Municipal Art Center, Gorzow Wielkopolski, 2015, p. 47.

Władysław Hasior (1928, Nowy Sącz - 1999, ) Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1959, he received a scholarship from the French Minister of Culture, which enabled him to study in the studio of sculptor Ossip Zadkine in Paris. He participated in the São Paulo Biennale (1965) and Venice Biennale (1970), as well as many other prestigious international exhibitions in, among others: Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Oslo, Montevideo, São Paulo, Helsinki, Vienna, Venice, Copenhagen, Brussels, Moscow. The largest collections of his works are in the Tatra Museum in Zakopane and in Gorzow Wielkopolski.

"I use materials that mean something. Each object has its own meaning, and put together they give an aphorism. An aphorism is very similar to truth. But it is not the truth itself. I consider artistic activity a provocation: intellectual, creative." "The use of ready-made objects has been practiced by people practicing fine arts since the beginning of the world. My workshop and my thinking are extremely traditional." Wladyslaw Hasior