Edward Krasiński

Polish avant-garde painter, sculptor and cross-disciplinary artist (3 March 1925, Lutsk, Volhynia, now Ukraine — 8 June 2004, Warsaw). Edward Krasiński is widely regarded as one of the nation's contemporary "classics," with over 15 critically-acclaimed solo exhibitions since the early 1960s and several posthumous retrospectives, including Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 2017. One of Krasiński's "trademark" symbols was a blue adhesive tape, always at 1.3 meters above the ground, which he incorporated into numerous paintings, sculptures and site-specific installations. His works are in permanent and public collections at some of the most prestigious European and American museums, such as Tate Modern, MoMA, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, and The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Krasiński co-founded Foksal Gallery in Warsaw in 1966. and shared a studio and apartment with painter and visual artist Henryk Stażewski (1894—1988) since 1970, which currently houses The Institute of Avant-Garde; in Krasiński's honor, the Institute preserved original interiors, complete with his iconic blue tape running along the walls.