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Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Description
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Crowd (Standing Figures)
burlap and synthetic resin, in 22 parts
- Each (appx.): 67 by 21 by 9 in. 170.2 by 53.4 by 22.9 cm.
- Executed in 1986-1987.
Provenance
Private Collection, Switzerland
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1989)
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1989)
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Magdalena Abakanowicz Skulpturen, January - April 1990, no. 4, illustrated in color
Literature
Barbara Rose, Magdalena Abakanowicz, New York, 1994, (another group illustrated on cover and pgs. 130-133)
Catalogue Note
"I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By urepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features.
A crowd of people or birds, insects or leaves, is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototypes: a riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition, or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm." (Magdalena Abakanowicz from New York, Marlborough Gallery, Magdalena Abakanowicz, October - November 1989, p. 37)
A crowd of people or birds, insects or leaves, is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototypes: a riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition, or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm." (Magdalena Abakanowicz from New York, Marlborough Gallery, Magdalena Abakanowicz, October - November 1989, p. 37)