Magdalena Abakanowicz

🗿Magdalena Abakanowicz (20 June 1930 – 20 April 2017) was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist.

She is notable for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium. She is widely regarded as one of Poland's most internationally acclaimed artists.

She was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland from 1965 to 1990 and a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 1984.

“My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd.”

The metaphoric language of her work has achieved a point of junction, which still is a challenge for mankind, for all its sophisticated civilisation. This is the point where the organic meets the non - organic, where the still alive meets that which is already dead, where all that exist in oppression meet all that strive for liberation in every meaning of this word.

With forty years of work behind her one can see her development like a map unfolded on the table. 

Current exhibitions:

JEANNE BUCHER JAEGER

Le Féminin Demeure

Paris, Oct 19 – Dec 2

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BECK & EGGELING

Strange Beauty

Düsseldorf, Nov 10, 2017 – Jan 20, 2018