Banners (1-50/262)
Banners are one of types of Hasior's assemblages. They were inspired by military pennants and church banners as well as ceremonial circumstances that accompany them. For the first time to a large extent they were presented during the Apple Blossom Festival in Łącko in Podhale in 1973 in the form of an ephemeral action (the artist himself distanced from happening movement and the term of happening) - a procession on decorated grasslands (as in May) carried by the members of a Voluntary Fire Brigade. "First, there was a visual enchantment with beauty of a banner itself. But not only: there was also a purpose - disinfection of faith that we bear within us, in the banners that not always deliver promises embroidered in gold on them" - we read in "Myśli o sztuce" ["Thoughts on Art"] - a compilation of quotations from Hasior. "I have made banners since 1968 with a very clear awareness of reasons and purposes. They allow me to show an important intention: I do not think up new phenomena in plastic art but I only draw them up from tradition. I am not talking about copying banners that exist in fact, about a simple continuation of carrying out a banner at the head of a march, a custom lasting for thousands of years. I only mention this custom, and by the way I make my private, subjective banners that do not mean this what all other institutional banners" (in "Przekrój" ["Cross Section"] 1991, 19.09). The banners participated in marches in Łącko in 1973 and 1975 as well as in actions, entitled "Żarliwe sztandary" ["Fervent Banners"] in 1979 in Drawsko Pomorskie and in 1982 and 1989 in Nowy Sącz.
Bibliography:
"Not. Fot." ["Photographic Note"] 2018, No. 4.
"Wernisaż wśród jabłoni" ["Vernissage Among Apple Trees"], movie directed by Grzegorz Dubowski, 1973.
