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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
Drawing on the work of prominent art historians, curators, critics,
and collectors, this exhibition catalogue presents the most current
research on the work of Alina Szapocznikow. Born in Kalisz, Poland,
in 1926, Szapocznikow studied in Prague and Paris, spent the last
decade of her life in France, and created an impressive number of
sculptures and drawings that are now defined as post-surrealist and
proto-feminist. Recent exhibitions of the artist's work in Germany
and France, along with acquisitions by prominent collections
worldwide, have bolstered Szapocznikow's international reputation
and ignited discussions of her significance to twentieth-century
art.
The publication Beneath the Skin provides an overview of the last
ten years of work by the Swiss artist Corina Staubli (b. 1959). It
shows the altercation in the tension between exterior and interior
worlds and the ambivalence of beauty, the beguiling, the sinister
and even the unfathomable. With diverse media - be it porcelain,
latex, painting or digital collage - the artist directs a dialogue
of opposing sides. The question she always poses is 'how does the
clandestine and the unconscious reveal itself in something that is
manifest' - and, vice versa, 'how does the external view reveal the
internal view'? The book itself is sure to arouse intrigue, as it
features a nylon sculpture on the cover! Text in English and
German.
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