Dimensions: 58 x 69 cm (whole)
Signed and dated p.d.: 'Knuth'78'
Origins
purchase from the artist's exhibition at NYU, New York, 1979
Literature
On the Track of Perfection. Selected works from the collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, National Gallery of Art, ed. Magdalena Piłakowska, Sopot 2022, p. 179, cat. no. 84 (il.)
Contemporary art from the collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, ed. Michal F. Wozniak, Bydgoszcz 2018, p. 145 (ill.)
Biography
Robert Knuth - painter, photographer, musician and performer; studied at PLSP in Bydgoszcz and PWSSP (Academy of Fine Arts) in Gdansk. He spearheaded a series of artistic initiatives: in 1995-1996 he headed the Delikatesy Avantgarde gallery in Gdansk, and in 2005 he founded Scena Gallery in Koszalin. Highlights of his musical career include the founding of the Paul Pozozza Museum group in Düsseldorf in 1983, the formation of the all-female electro anarchist band Mary Lolo in 2007 and the founding of Santa Rocket in 2009. He has collaborated with Jerzy Mazzoll and Olga Szwajgier, Peter Kowald, Felix Droese, among others. He is primarily known for his musical performances and happenings ("Günter Grass Versöhnungs Gurken" 2006, "Stillleben" 2007), films ("Totrimejk" 2006), series of screenings ("Paradise on Earth is in Poland", "Judas"). In 2009 he presented the project "Peas and Apples" at the Audio Art Festival in Gdynia. Since 2008 he has lived and worked in Leipzig, and teaches at the Faculty of Painting and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin. His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Wroclaw, the National Museum in Poznan, the Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
