Władysław Hasior Banners
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Banner of the Blue Hope, 1988
Source of visual: Program Art Gallery |
Sacrificial Banner, 1974
Source of visual: Tatra Museum |
Star of the Watering Place, 1974
Source of visual: Tatra Museum |
For his diploma project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Hasior created a set of ceramic Stations of the Cross destined for St. Casimir's Church in Nowy Sacz. Subsequently he also participated in exhibitions of sacral art. Around 1965 Hasior created his first Banners. These resembled church feretories in form and combined dignified, high-toned inspirations with everyday reality and its banal aesthetics.
In 1973, Hasior took things a step further: during the Festival of the Blossoming Apple Tree in Lacko, a village in the Tatra foothills, he organized a happening, a procession along the hills surrounding the village. Leading the procession dressed in a fireman's helmet and uniform, he was followed by four detachments of volunteer fireman carrying his banners, and by a band that played music. For some form took precedence over substance: the happening led the communist authorities to impute the artist with religiosity...
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Interior of the Hasior Gallery in Zakopane
Source of visual: Tatra Museum |
Banners in the the Hasior Gallery in Gorow
Source of visual: Galeria BWA |
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