*1942 in Warsaw. Lives in Sweden
Polish artist
Known for: Art as intrigue, creation of legends, myth-making, story telling
Art historical context: Conceptual Art
A Polish artist active mostly in the 1960s and 70s, he moved to Sweden in 1976 and is said to have stopped being active as an artist and to have started running a garden. Freisler is known mostly for his "art of story telling" – an ephemeral practice that involved the telling of stories about his performances and art objects, impossible to confirm. From this point of view, his escape from public life and from participating in the art world can be seen as another story dedicated to create a legend, while his mystic garden could be considered a new stage for the performance.
Exhibited works
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2nd | A | The disappearance of Paweł Freisler from the art scene in the late 1970s and his emigration to Sweden, where he is supposedly working as a gardener – all this was and is part of his work, which is not to show material artworks, but to circulate legends. In 1968, Freisler started to work with an egg that he had manufactured out of steel on August 14, 1969, in a factory for precision instruments for the laboratory Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL. He first called it Stalowy Wzór Jajka Kurzego (Steel Model of a Chicken Egg). It was later called Imperialny Wzór Jajka Kurzego (Imperial Model of a Chicken Egg) and today it is best known as Stalowe Jajo (Steel Egg), or simply The Egg. Since the legend of the egg is still ongoing, its title is in the process of developing, too. The egg has not been exhibited, but has been entrusted to people. Among others, the popular Polish Actor Wiesław Gołas carried it from February 1970 to February 1971 and showed it on demand. Later, it was brought to Paris, where it was supposedly driven around by Jean-Paul Belmondo on the hood of his car. |
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Credits
All reproductions © Paweł Freisler, Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner