Format:
207 Seiten
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27 cm
ISBN:
9781849766739
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1849766738
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9781849768368
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1849768366
Uniform Title:
Magdalena Abakanowicz (Ausstellungskatalog, 11.2022-02.2024, 2022)
Content:
Magdalena Abakanowicz (b.1930-2017) was a Polish sculptor and fibre artist, most notable for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium. In the 1960s and 1970s she wove sisal in intense colours to create towering, hanging pieces that radically expanded the field of sculpture and installation art, and catapulted the international 'fiber art' movement. Known as 'Abakans', these 'organic environments' carried many meanings and were often large in size, containing entanglements of ropes or dividing spaces. They were spaces to contemplate, to immerse oneself in, to experience. Lavishly illustrated with immersive photography and stunning details, this beautiful book explores the unique nature of these monumental works and their impact as environmental sculpture. Considering the relationships between the Abakans with their forest-like atmosphere, and other key works, it reveals the artist's broad interest in natural phenomena and folk-art traditions from different cultural backgrounds, and the mastery and determination of a woman artist who, despite the restrictions of living in Poland under an oppressive Communist regime, established a career as an international artist. Drawing on themes such as shamanism, female energy and power, pregnancy and insights on human nature, the book highlights Abakanowicz's pioneering contribution to installation art and the role of collaboration in her practice. The book contextualises her work within the Polish art world and wider post-war Europe. Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK.
Note:
Impressum: First published 2022 (...) on the occasion of the exhibition "Magdalena Abakanowicz", Tate Modern, London, 17 November 2022-21 May 2023; Fondation Toms Pauli at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne/Plateforme 10, Lausanne, 23 June - 24 September 2023 ; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, 26 October 2023 - 25 February 2024
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The artist, the person / Mary Jane Jacob -- Artist's writings -- Knots : Abakanowicz and the Polish art scene in the 1960s / Magdalena Moskalewicz -- Every tangle of thread and rope : Abakanowicz's organic environments / Ann Coxon -- Art as spatial dramaturgy : Polish and Italian povera / Gabi Scardi -- Crafting an art practice : the postwar Polish art scene / Michał Jachuła -- Abakany : the essence of time and space / Marta Kowalewska -- Spaces unguarded : Abakanowicz's drawings / Magali Junet -- Return to paradise : concerning arboreal architecture / Clare Lilley -- Celebrating an artist : Abakanowicz in Wrocław / Iwona Dorota Bigos -- Organic structures : Abakanowicz in Norway / Caroline Ugelstad -- The liveliness of matter : contemporary dialogues / Dina Akhmadeeva -- A lifetime of experiences : a narrative chronology / Jenny Dally
Language:
English
Keywords:
Abakanowicz, Magdalena 1930-2017
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Coxon, Ann ca. 20. Jh.
Author information:
Jacob, Mary Jane 1952-
Author information:
Abakanowicz, Magdalena 1930-2017
Author information:
Lilley, Clare 1962-
Author information:
Ugelstad, Caroline 1972-
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