Studied under Professor Antoni Kenar at the
State Secondary School of Visual Art Techniques in Zakopane.
Studied under Marian Wnuk in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Studied under Ossip Zadkine in Paris.
Hasior
may be my favorite artist of all time. How could I not love an artist who sets
the majority of his public works on fire at the opening? In Zakopane I had the honor of visiting both
his grave and his studio-turned-gallery as well as the Hasoir collection at the National Museum in Wroclaw and Krakow, Poland. A local Zakopane girl said it best when she
described his work as "devastating." In my opinion his sculptural works are surreal abstractions of the Podhale region's folk art, but certainly still devastating on many levels. I could go on and on about the relevance and importance of Hasior's work, but there is enough already out there in internetland on Hasior to help you form your own ideas. However, nothing compares to seeing his work in person. Many of the photos below I took while
travelling in Poland.
A quick bit of trivia: A pair of students used found rusted scraps of Hasior's Firebird sculpture for their MFA exhibit, mostly to show the poor and forgotten condition of the sculpture, calling for a restoration of the work.
Firebirds: A young Hasior flees the scene after igniting his sculpture at the opening (lower right corner)
Hasior's grave in the old cemetery, Zakopane (designed by his students)
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