Private.
Kantor’s Theatrical Costumes
Cricoteka | The Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor
Private is an unorthodox large-format installation putting on display Tadeusz Kantor’s theatrical costumes from the Cricoteka Collection. This context-based show reveals the total creator Kantor was, developing theatrical situations by building up tension and an individual approach to characters, forms, and meanings.
Bogdan Renczyński, the curator and a Cricot 2 actor, defines the eponymous ‘private’ costumes as a theatrical tool closest to the actor’s body, while his involvement with the collection turns into an intimate and emotional story. The curator also intends to create a space for visitors to establish private relationships with the objects.
Design, Typesetting and animation: Weird Gentlemen
Support: Adam Kałuża
"Objects and costumes must be works of art, not decoration which is discarded once it has been used. This is what makes the Cricot 2 Theatre a unique and purely artistic phenomenon".
Tadeusz Kantor