Following Krasiński’s interest in reducing sculpture to simple lines, the exhibition analyses his works with blue tape – a material used by the artist from 1969. In his words, a blue line:
…appears on everything and I get everywhere with it. I don’t know if it is art. But it is surely Scotch blue, 19 mm wide, length unknown.
At Tate Liverpool we can also see how Krasiński combined sculpture and photography – for example, by putting life-sized self-portraits in spatial installations, and reconstructions of his first individual exhibitions and his participation in the Tokyo Biennale in 1970. Ewa Gorządek on Culture.pl writes:
Edward Krasiński’s art is a complex, elusive and undefinable phenomenon. Its most significant aspect was life itself and a creative attitude towards reality, which expressed itself through ‘life in art’. He constantly influenced the world with his personality, irony, and humour, discrediting or questioning traditional forms of manifesting art and its meanings in a subtle way.
Along with Krasiński’s exposition, the Tate will host an exhibition of a French artist, Ives Klein, who used only one blue pigment – ultramarine – in his art.
Afterwards, from July to October 2017, the exhibition will be presented in Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Edward Krasiński
Tate Liverpool
21st October to 5th March 2017
Curators: Kasia Redzisz, Stephanie Straine.