Mária Bartuszová
06 Mar - 09 Apr 2009
MARIA BARTUSZOVA
06.03. - 09.04.2009
The works of Mária Bartuszová (1936-1996) were exhibited at documenta 12 in 2007. The exhibition at the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery about a year ago was the first ever individual showing of her works outside her native Slovakia. The forthcoming exhibition will afford visitors an insight into a further important area of the artist's work: her fragile pieces in plaster of Paris will here be accompanied by sculptures in bronze dating mainly from the 1960s. Bartuszová's organic sculptures are inspired by natural processes, elementary forms and fundamental physical forces. Her works manifest states of transition between form and non-form, between genesis and destruction. The confrontation between these two completely different materials, bronze and plaster of Paris, tangibly expresses the two extremes of stability and fragility. Bartuszová's early bronze sculptures betray the influence of Brancusi, Moore and Arp during her years as an art student in Prague. The artist was deeply fascinated by natural forms and drew her inspiration from drops of water, rain, cornfields, birds' nests and her own sense of touch.
06.03. - 09.04.2009
The works of Mária Bartuszová (1936-1996) were exhibited at documenta 12 in 2007. The exhibition at the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery about a year ago was the first ever individual showing of her works outside her native Slovakia. The forthcoming exhibition will afford visitors an insight into a further important area of the artist's work: her fragile pieces in plaster of Paris will here be accompanied by sculptures in bronze dating mainly from the 1960s. Bartuszová's organic sculptures are inspired by natural processes, elementary forms and fundamental physical forces. Her works manifest states of transition between form and non-form, between genesis and destruction. The confrontation between these two completely different materials, bronze and plaster of Paris, tangibly expresses the two extremes of stability and fragility. Bartuszová's early bronze sculptures betray the influence of Brancusi, Moore and Arp during her years as an art student in Prague. The artist was deeply fascinated by natural forms and drew her inspiration from drops of water, rain, cornfields, birds' nests and her own sense of touch.