Background
Edward Krasinski was born on March 3, 1925 in Lutsk, Ukraine.
Edward Krasinski was born on March 3, 1925 in Lutsk, Ukraine.
Initially, during the period from 1940 to 1942, Edward studied interior design and graphic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Kraków. In 1945 he began to study painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under the guidance of Władysław Jarocki, Wojciech Weiss and Józef Mehoffer, graduating in 1948.
In the 1950s, Krasinski moved to Warsaw, where he created erotic drawings and produced many surrealist paintings. He published drawings in the magazine Directions, and designed magazine covers for Poland and You and I.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Edward created his first spatial and relief paintings, forms of irregular shapes constructed from wooden boards, hinges and wire. In 1964, in the open air in Osieki, Krasinski created a spatial painting Spear of the Atomic Age, which he hung in an open space between trees. In 1966, together with Anka Ptaszkowska, Wiesław Borowski, Mariusz Tchorek and Henryk Stażewski, he co-founded the Foksal Gallery.
From 1969, the painter started working with blue Scotch tape, which he used for the first time in the courtyard of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris during the 3éme Salon International de Galeries Pilotes. His works were exhibited as part of the Guggenheim International Exhibition.
In 1970, Krasinski participated in the Biennial in Tokyo.
In the early 1980s, Krasinski created several small objects in the form of crosses, alluding to his former "spears" — works that triggered energy.
In the late 1980s, he arranged his exhibitions in a maze, where the viewer was guided by the blue line, like Ariadna's thread. The first such maze was created in 1986 in the Foksal Gallery and two years later in Paris at the Donguy Gallery, where it was spatially expanded.
Edward influenced the world with his personality, irony, humour, undermining and challenging the traditional forms of art and its meanings.