gelatin-silver print mounted on paper, 18 x 6.5 cm (20.8 x 14.5 cm)
signed "Rzepecki" and title on front (on paper)
The title Crossing the Red Sea is a performance that the artist realized in 1983 in Teofilow. While crossing the Pilica River, he dissolved red paint in the water and almost drowned, having lost the shallow route he had marked out earlier. The public did not figure out, as usual, what was going on. The work is part of a record of this action.
BIO
Performer, sculptor and installation artist, photographer, filmmaker. Studied art history at the Jagiellonian University. Co-founder and member of the Łódź Kaliska (since 1979) and Pi.Stacja (since 1990) art groups. Best known as the creator of the scandalous Mother of God with a painted mustache (1982) - a work more widely known after the exhibition Irreligia, Atelier 340 Museum, Brussels (2001). Author of many solo exhibitions, including Exhibition for Dwarfs, Kleine calf po pole felaufen, Above all I am a Polish artist, Masculine and Other Art, Feminismus. Participant in many group exhibitions. Works in collections: National Museum in Krakow, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Art Museum in Lodz, Zachęta Contemporary Art in Szczecin and the collection of Dr. Werner Jerke.
