Actions With Fire
Hasior's interest in fire is maybe an after-effect of his World War II experiences (see: A. Banach, "Hasior", Warszawa 1964). "I am guided by the will to reconstruct a very rich semantic layer of fire - sacral, mythic, poetic. Fire in an artwork never is, and, in any case, never should be a trivial phenomenon, deprived of exceptionally deep justification. I try to refute assumptions that fire fulfils only decorative or performance functions in my works. This must dramatic fire, such one whose the first name is the Element. [...]Read more