Maria Bartuszová: The Artist and Her Art

Maria Bartuszová: The Artist and Her Art

Maria Bartuszová: The Artist and Her Art

Maria Bartuszová: The Artist and Her Art

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Overview

A fresh and visually breathtaking new look at the extraordinary art of the Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová

This beautiful book on Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová (1936–1996) will introduce readers to the ethereal and other-worldly forms that dominate her oeuvre as well as exploring her influence in a broader global and political context. Discovering her talent in Prague in the ceramic studios at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Bartuszová went on to pioneer the techniques used in experimental and abstract plaster casting. Creating unique methods such as “gravistimulated” and “pneumatic” casting, Bartuszová defined the world of sculpture on her own terms. From rai drops and eggs to parts of the human body, Bartuszová was interested in biomorphology and how she could use the organic nature of casting in plaster to create simultaneously solid and delicate works.

With around 100 works, many rarely exhibited before in the United Kingdom, this major retrospective will highlight the abstract sculptures and experimental methods of Bartuszová’s beautifully contorted and organic shapes and forms, with this exquisite and accessible catalog bringing her work to a wider audience. Celebrating the fragile and corporeal, the soft and the solid, curators Juliet Bingham and Gabriela Garlatyová’s Maria Bartuszová provides the perfect introduction to the artist followed by seminal texts to recognize the artist’s legacy of experimental and abstract sculptural works produced predominantly in the context of socialist Czechoslovakia.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849766777
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, L.L.C.
Publication date: 01/10/2023
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 980,159
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.62(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Juliet Bingham is curator of international art at Tate Modern. Gabriela Garlatyová is curator of The Archive of Maria Bartuszová.

Table of Contents

Foreword Frances Morris 06

Introduction Juliet Bingham 10

Relationships 22

Soft & Hard. Full & Empty. Small & Endless. Gabriela Garlatyová

Haptic Perception 32

Workshops for Blind and Partially Sighted Children in Levoca Gabriel Kladek

Emotion, Destruction, Experimentation 42

Prague - Košice Marie Klimešová

Boundless Concealment and Finite Openness 52

On the Architecture of the Endless Ice Harald Krejci

Plates 59

'A tiny void full of a tiny infinite universe'

Maria Bartuszová and Conceptual Art Lucia Gregorová Stach 156

'My breath is a part of the universe pulsating' 166

Growth and form in the Sculpture of Maria Bartuszová Lisa Le Feuvre 166

Chronology Dina Akhmadeeva Gabriela Garlatyová 176

Exhibited works 182

Maria Bartuszová notes 186

Index 188

Photo credits 191

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