Arti GRABOWSKI, Poland

Born 1977, lives and works in Krakow.

« this man is unpredictable, but he more often let’s meet as the one about the pigeon heart. His artistic work reveals dazzling and unstable dose of different emotions: he is entertaining, he is horrifying, but he is never boring. He is without compromise with himself as well as the audience and the evidence of this procedure is a rich collection of photographic documentation of different type of injury: bruises or fractures. He is admitting that from the very beginning he was convicted on performance. His father was forester, miner, outermost rebel, at peresent is well-known artist artbrut.

The art secondary school which he attended wore the name of Tadeusz Kantor - there he had made his first efforts of action around theatre. For studies he settled down in Cracow – the mecca of living art - in the city of Kantor, of Cricot 2 Theatre, of Jerzy Beres, of Warpechowski, of Artur Tajber. He graduated from the academy of fine arts with distinction - specialization in perofrmance art - what was a precedent in Poland. At present he is leading the first in Poland Studio of the performance art with Prof. Artur Tajber on the parent college. He subordinated his entire life for performance art » 

Mario Janos