Dimensions: 121.5 x 225 cm
signed, dated and numbered on the reverse: 'Zbigniew Libera | 2016 1/3'
signed, dated, numbered and described on the sticker on the reverse: 'Zbigniew Libera | Self-portrait with the death of a patriot in the background | 2016 | 1/3'.
ed. 1/3
Exhibited
Zbigniew Libera, "The Latest Contraption of Documentary Photography," MCSW Elektrownia, Radom, 26.06-30.08.2020
"Scratch on the eyelid", group exhibition, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art in Katowice, Katowice, 4.11.2016-15.01.2017
Literature
Zbigniew Libera. The latest contraption of documentary photography, Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia" , Radom 2020, il. on pp. 70 and 71, (cat. exhib.).
Scratch on the eyelid, at the Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA in Katowice, SZUM, 20.12.2016, https://magazynszum.pl/rysa-na-powiece-w-galerii-sztuki-wspolczesnej-bwa-w-katowicach/ (il.)
Biography
He is one of the most interesting artists of the generation that appeared on the national art scene in the 1980s (during this period he did not participate in the official artistic circulation, he was active, among others, in the alternative circle of the Lodz Attic and the "Culture of the Whipround", he also worked with Zofia Kulik as her model), he creates objects, installations, video realizations, uses photography, painting, is the author of multimedia activities. The contemplative-meditative works he presented in the early 1990s - such as the video realization "Mystical Perseveration" (shown, among others, at the famous exhibition "Mystical Perseveration and Rose" in 1992 at PGS in Sopot) generated considerable interest around his work. Subsequent exhibitions in which he presented such realizations as "Corrective Devices" (solo exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw), or a model of a concentration camp built from Lego blocks, earned him the name of a controversial artist and international fame. In 2004, he showed an exhibition of his works using photographic messages, "Masters and Positives," at the Atlas Sztuki in Lodz, PGS Sopot, and the Arsenal in Poznan.
