Stage Designing (1-45/45)
In 1968 as a result of personnel and substantive changes at the Antoni Kenar State College of Fine Arts in Zakopane Hasior loses a teacher job and decides to move to Wrocław. There he starts cooperation with Teatr Polski [Polish Theatre] and prepares two stage designs for the plays directed by Krystyna Skuszanka: "Don Juan" by Molier (1970), "Rzecz ludzka" ["Human Thing"] based on poems by Mieczysław Jastrun and "Gry snów" ["Play of Dreams"] by August Strindberg (1970). Every time Hasior arranges on the stage mobile compositions made of objects being in a style of his art, there, with variable functions of meaning which together with the course of a play activate their subsequent spatial potentials and meanings, transform themselves.
Several ideas, e.g. a project of stage design for "Rewizor" ["Government Inspector "] by Gogol (1969-1970) remains in the conceptual phase. Like, borne at around the same time, the idea of staging "Halka" by Moniuszko on the Wielka Krokiew - large jumping hill. At the same time (1968) Hasior receives also film proposals, e.g. a set design for "Polowanie na muchy" ["Hunting Flies"] by Andrzej Wajda - supposedly, he did not agree to this cooperation because such work would deviate to much from his art. In 1970 he prepares the only set design for the movie not about his art. This a history of a spontaneous artist not understood by the society, called Janko Muzykant [Johnny Musician] by Hasior.
Bibliography:
H. Kirschner, "Scenografia Władysława Hasiora" ["Własysław Hasior's Stage Designing"], "Projekt" ["Project"] 1971, No. 4.
M. Szczygieł-Gajewska, "Władysław Hasior", Warszawa 2011.
