Wladyslaw Hasior's characteristic work, which evokes diverse religious, symbolic and cultic associations through the disparate elements. Hasior has been compared to Robert Rauschenberg, one of the forerunners of assemblage and pop art. Having trained at the Academy in Warsaw, Hasior taught in Zakopane and at the Academy in Wroclaw. Since 1957 he has participated in art exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Oslo, Montevideo, São Paulo, Helsinki, Vienna, Venice, Copenhagen, Brussels and Moscow. A scholarship enabled him to study in Ossip Zadkine's studio in Paris in 1959. From the late 1950s onwards, he used ready-mades and repurposed items to create numerous metaphorical assemblages. His pathetic, grotesquely sacred-looking banners ...