biografia di Nikolai KASAK (1917-1994)

Birth place: Lushtcha, Russia

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Sculptor, painter

Studied: City Col. Arts, Warsaw (B.F.A.); Acad. Fine Art, Vienna (M.F.A.); Acad. Fine Art School Advanced Study, Rome, diploma.

Exhibited: Quadrienale Arte Rome Rassegna Naz., Galleria Naz. Arte Moderna, Rome, 1949; Mus. Modern Art, Dallas, Houston & San Antonio, TX, 1951; Guggenheim Mus., NYC; Arte Madi Int., Mus. Modern Art, Buenos Aires 1961 & Denis Rene Gallery, Paris, four shows, Riverside Mus., NY, 1958-68. Awards: first prize for Warsaw Emblem, City Hall Warsaw; first prize for mural, City Hall Baranowicze; prize for painting-construct, Art Club Rome.

Member: Am. Abstract Artists.

Work: Mus. Fine Art, Minsk; Mus. Fine Art, Baranowicze; Arte Madi Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Denis Rene Gal., Paris; Numero Gal., Florence. Commissions: Sgraffito, City Hall Warsaw; mural, City Hall, Baranowicze.

Comments: Research: originator of physical art concept based on primary positive and negative elements of reality; painted wood constructions of positive and negative space. Publications: auth., Physical Art--Action of Positive & Negative Elements," Manifesto, 1946-1947; contrib., Storia de Pitture Contemporanee, Domani, Rome, 1948; contrib., Negative and Positive Space, Arte Madi, Buenos Aires, 1951 & Arte Fisico-Constructivo, 1952, Arte Madi, Buenos Aires; auth., The Art of Kasak (monogr.), 1968 & The Figurative Art of Kasak, 1969, October House.

Sources: WW73; The World of Abstract Art (Wittenborn, 1957). "