Research Catalog

Title

To exalt the ephemeral : Alina Szapocznikow 1962 -1972 / Alina Szapocznikow ; [texts by Margot Norton and Pavel S. Pyś].

Author

Szapocznikow, Alina

Publication

• [New York, New York] : Hauser & Wirth Publishers, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Norton, Margot
• Pyś, Pavel S.
• Hauser & Wirth New York, host institution.

Description

212 pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits; 32 cm

Summary

Tracing a body of work by Alina Szapocznikow from 1962 to 1972, this book considers pivotal turning points in the Polish artist's life and career. Featuring new photography, the publication aims to render the tactility and spatiality of these works in brilliant new detail. Born in Poland to a Jewish family in 1926, the artist survived internment in concentration camps as a teenager during the Holocaust. After the war, Szapocznikow trained as a sculptor in both Prague and Paris, returning to Poland in 1951. By the 1960's she was radically employing sculpture to render an intimate record of both her memories and her own body in the present. Pioneering in its use of new and unconventional materials (from tinted polyester resin and polyeurethane foam, to everyday items such as pantyhose, newspaper clippings, and grass), Szapocznikow's art amounts to a powerful meditation on what she once described as 'a fleeting instant, a trivial instant' our terrestrial passage. Produced during one of the most sociopolitically complex periods of the twentieth century, her pliant, sensual casts and sculptures of body parts are ecstatic and abject, playful and disturbing, direct and elusive. Unapologetic in their expression of the female experience, including that of terminal illness, Szapocznikow's works remain hauntingly relevant today. Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA (29.10.-21.12.2019).

Alternative Title

Alina Szapocznikow 1962 -1972

Subject

• Szapocznikow, Alina > Exhibitions
• Szapocznikow, Alina > Criticism and interpretation
• Szapocznikow, Alina
• 1900-1999
• Sculptors > Poland > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Artists > Poland > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Artists
• Sculptors
• Poland

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, New York, New York, October 29-December 21, 2019.

Contents

"Nothing is definitive": Alina Szapocznikow's radical instability / Margot Norton -- Alina Szapocznikow: a "thwarted vocation" revisited / Pavel S. Pyś -- Plates -- Selected chronology

Call Number

JQG 21-274

ISBN

• 3906915492
• 9783906915494

OCLC

1132289426

Author

Szapocznikow, Alina, artist.

Title

To exalt the ephemeral : Alina Szapocznikow 1962 -1972 / Alina Szapocznikow ; [texts by Margot Norton and Pavel S. Pyś].

Publisher

[New York, New York] : Hauser & Wirth Publishers, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Norton, Margot, writer of supplementary textual content.

Pyś, Pavel S., writer of supplementary textual content.

Hauser & Wirth New York, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 21-274