Edward Łazikowski (born January 22, 1939, in

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) is a Polish artist whose work includes

drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...

painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

and

art theory Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,'' , acces ...

Life

Łazikowski graduated from the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts and Design in

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. He presents his artistic and theoretical achievements publicly in individual exhibitions and taking part in collective shows in galleries and museums, publishing catalogues and articles in various magazines, and giving interview. Initially, he went in for painting (in the 1960s), then in the mid-1970s took interest in "actions" and photography (mainly documentary), and in the late 1970s and early 1980s performance art. Later on he created "objects" (sculptures): small constructions made of wood, string and fabric, which in time became larger, and sometimes became installations. An important part of his creative process is drawing, divided by the artist into three categories: free, working and note. Starting from the 1990s, he introduced a series of works called Fragtors. The term, coined by Łazikowski, and precisely described in his theoretical work ''Fragtoryzacja świata'' (''Fragtorisation of the World''), became the basis for artist's present plastic activities. In his theoretical and constructive works Łazikowski tries to combine discovering reality (science) with creating it (art). Łazikowski describes his aim as to carry out the "spiritualisation of his corporality (but not of the corpse), and corporalisation of his spirituality (but not of the spirit)." He sometimes exhibits his works outside galleries, at places unrelated to arts, not promoted by media and advertising campaigns; often outside the "field" of art.

Individual exhibitions

* 1981: "Performance pikturalny", performance, Ślad Gallery, Łódź * 1986: "Obiekty", wystawa i pokaz autorski. instalacja. Galeria Stodoła, Warszawa * 1987: "2 instalacje i performance". Galeria Moltkerei-Verksttat. Kolonia, Niemcy * 1992: "Teraz i przedtem". Muzeum Artystów, Łódź * 1993: "Instalacje, obiekty, pokaz na żywo". Międzynarodowe Centrum Sztuki, Poznań

Collective exhibitions

* 1981: "Panoptikon", instalacja, IX Spotkania Krakowskie, Kraków * 1987: "Realizm radykalny i abstrakcja konkretna", National Museum Warsaw * 1989: "Colori strappati - Oggetti presunti", Galeria Sala 1, Rzym, Włochy * 1990: "Konstrukcja w procesie", Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź * 1992: "Spotkanie i Tworzenie", Międzynarodowe Centrum Sztuki, Poznań

Works in collections

National Museum, Warsaw The National Museum in Warsaw (, MNW) is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital. It comprises a rich collection of ancient art (Art of ancient Egypt, Egyptian, Art in ancient Greece, Greek, ...

* Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi * Museum of Fine Arts *

Pushkin Museum The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (, abbreviated as , ''GMII'') is the largest museum of European art in Moscow. It is located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Sviatos ...

* Polish Sculpture Center * Muzeum Sztuki w Radomiu

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* 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish sculptors 20th-century Polish male artists 21st-century Polish painters 21st-century Polish sculptors 21st-century Polish male artists Polish photographers Polish male sculptors Polish performance artists 1939 births Living people People from Łowicz County Polish male painters {{Poland-artist-stub