MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ. FATE AND ART - MONOLOGUE

MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ (1930-)

This is the first title of a new series of biographies entitled Confessions. This illustrated autobiography about the most widely known Polish artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz, surveys the international reputation she gained in the 1960s as a sculptor in monumental environments called Abakans.

 Polish sculptor. A descendant of nobility, she graduated from Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts in 1955. She became the pioneer and leading exponent of sculpture made of woven fabrics, calling her three-dimensional weavings “Abakans” (from her surname). She produced series of fabric forms called Heads (1975), Backs (1976–80), Embryology (1980), and Catharsis (1986). She has also exhibited paintings, drawings, and sculptures in other media internationally and has been widely imitated in Europe and the U.S.