Magdalena Abakanowicz, the Polish sculptor whose lyrical art explored the stress of political regimes on individuals and redefined how contemporary artists portray the human body, died yesterday
In a 2009 Tate roundtable discussion, curator Anda Rottenberg, formerly the director of Warsaw’s Zachęta—National Gallery of Art, remarked on the fate of Polish art in the aftermath of 1989…
Like discarded husks, Magdalena Abakanowicz’s representations of the human form always seem used up, dried out and left as refuse. The Polish sculptor is well known for her hollow burlap, bronze and…