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Magdalena Abakanowicz and Her Abakans in Tate Modern
A beautifully curated exhibition at Tate Modern, in London, UK, explores the transformative period in the career of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz.
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Tate makes full use of the gallery space in the Blavatnik Building to show us Abakanowicz’s mesmerizing textile structures that were, and still are, so confusing to art critics that they called them abakans because they could not easily be classified as tapestries or sculptures.
Art is a state of being.
You are born with the capacity to integrate your energy into objects.
Abakanowicz was born in 1930 to an aristocratic family. She spent her early childhood in the countryside in close contact with nature.
When she was nine years old, the Second World War started, and that experience deeply marked her, though she never presented herself as a victim. After the war, she pursued artistic education, eventually studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
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