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*24510$aMaria Bartuszová /$cedited by Juliet Bingham and Gabriela Garlatyová ; [contributors: Juliet Bingham, Gabriela Garlatyová, Marie Klimešová, Harald Krejci, Lisa Feuvre, Lucia Gregorová Stach, Gabriel Kladek, Dina Akhmadeeva].
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*500  $aPublished on the occasion of the exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 20 September 2022 to 16 April 2023.
*504  $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
*520  $aBringing together many works rarely exhibited before in the UK, this survey exhibition will highlight the abstract sculptures of Prague-born Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová. Bartuszová worked over three decades in Košice, the second-largest city in Slovakia. She created around 500 sculptures, from small organic forms to commissions for public spaces as well as works in the landscape, despite restrictions on her artistic life during this period. The exhibition starts in the 1960s, when Bartuszová experimented using her own distinctive method of casting plaster by hand. Inspired by playing with her young daughter, she created abstract shapes by pouring plaster into rubber balloons - her signature material was white plaster, giving the sculptures a fragile quality. She shaped the sculptures by pushing, pulling, or submerging them into water, creating unique and distinct shapes. Some suggest raindrops, seeds or eggs, others the human body. Later, she allowed the balloons to burst, creating delicate works similar to cocoons or nests. In the 1980s, Bartuszová frequently photographed her works outdoors to emphasise their close ties to nature. The exhibition will also include a selection of these striking images. --Gallery website.
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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.