Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz [ magda'lɛna abaka'nɔv itʃ ʲ ] ( born June 20, 1930 in Raszyn - Falenty, Poland) is a Polish sculptor and textile artist.

Life

Magdalena Abakanowicz studied 1949-1954 at the art academies in Gdansk and Warsaw. Here, her main interest was in painting, although they also felt tendency to plastic work. This development was undoubtedly influenced by the shapes and forms that they had created as a child on the mother's farm. Later, when she was faced with the miserable economic conditions of communist Poland, the gift of natural and found materials into sculptural works great monumentality and expressive power the hallmark of their work was to convert.

Magdalena Abakanowicz first gained international attention in the 1960s when she prepared large woven wall fabrics. It stands out the result of Abakan, for they at the Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil was awarded the 1965 Grand Prix. The mid-1970s took their work a dramatic turn when she began the heads, figures, animals and birds Sisal, Burlap, glue and resin to create on model forms that characterize her oeuvre since then.

Magdalena Abakanowicz taught as a professor at the Art Academy Poznan 1965 until 1990. Besides, she was 1984 Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) in the United States.

Magdalena Abakanowicz has received numerous awards and honors, including the Sculpture Prize of Sculpture Center New York ( 1993), the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1998), was appointed Officer of the Order of Arts and Sciences in Paris, France ( 1999) and the appointment Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy ( 2000). She is an honorary doctor of the Royal College of Art ( Royal Academy of Arts), London ( 1974), the Rhode Iceland School of Design, Providence, Rhode Iceland (1992 ), the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (1998), the Pratt Institute in New York City ( 2000), the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston ( 2001), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( 2002) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan ( 2002). Magdalena Abakanowicz is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (1994 ), the Saxon Academy of Arts in Dresden (1998) and the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts in Berlin ( 2000). She is also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1996).

On 15 March 2010 she was at the German Embassy in Warsaw from Ambassador Michael H. Gerdts Award "for her outstanding and lasting contribution to cultural dialogue between Poland and Germany " with the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star.

Exhibition participation

  • 2011: Blickachsen 8, Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with "Ten Seated Figures " cast iron each 300 × 160 × 96 cm
  • 2012: "about blank - empty space, or the disappearance of things", Kunsthalle Darmstadt, November 25, 2012 - March 3, 2013
  • 2012: " Atelier.Industriekultur " in LWL Industrial Museum Bocholt Textile Museum along with Laura Ford

Gallery

Nierozpoznani - Poznań

Mutant - Kunstweg human traces

Mutants in a performance with Claudius Reimann

Mutant in the textile industry museum Bocholt (2012 )

Gdańsk Communism Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island Rhode Island Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Duisburg Integrated Authority File
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