Tadeusz Kantor

Kantor was a man of suffering. he had lived through many horrors in his life, witnessing the holocaust and the second world war through his own eyes, Kantor worked as a painter, set designer and theatre director.

 Kantor was inspired by surrealistic work, he loved to work with Bio-objects, a concept he came up with through his own work and love of the idea that paintings can be link with reality as reality can be link with the paintings. Bio-objects range from two different ends of a spectrum, the one side having the performer be part of the painting, creating one image, whereas the other side is the performer is not allowed to part with a object and must make that object be obvious for the audience.

his love of the painting lead him to become a more integral part of his performances, he would sit on stage with his performers and make sure they were being the painting he wanted them to be. he would come and rearrange a performer if he didn't believe that they were making as big of an impact as he wanted. this can be noted most in his piece Wielopole, Wielopole.


Wielopole, Wielopole


the act of interacting with the performers is one that intrigued me, I loved the idea of having a set image in your mind and having that expressed in a way that the audience would see as a experience this would bring the viewers into your world more.


Kantor also loved to use memories to express a story but the memories he would usually pick are not the happiest Varity, in keeping with his theatre of death motive the vast majority of his work was focusing on the bad experiences in his life, this works especially well with our piece as each of our own stories relate to a moment of pain or guilt in our own lives.