| dc.description.abstract | Artistic practice of Janusz Kaczorowski, of which only a few traces remain in the collections
of institutions and in private hands, is characterised by surprisingly high quality of intellectual
reflection. With his attitude and works, the artist affected several young artists and he is
still remembered as an extraordinary personality. He created an original hidden art concept
that avoids public presentation. I submit the idea expressed in The Private Manifesto of Hidden
Art in a detailed analysis in the second part of the text. I locate the source of this idea in
the examples of the artist’s reflection and works dedicated to the permanent presence of
images and symbols of a totalitarian state in the iconosphere, which display the characteristics
of a subversive artistic approach. Kaczorowski, a leftist and a socially engaged person,
consistently embodied artistic ideas in life, and the several works that he left behind should
be seen in terms of the power that generates acts of cessation, concealment and withdrawal. | en |
