A major retrospective of works by the internationally-renowned Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz has opened at the National Museum in Kraków.

On display is a cross-section of her work from the early 1960s to the present. It includes the early ‘abakans’, the towering textile structures suspended from the gallery ceiling, the figurative sculptures of the 1970s, consisting of groups of headless figures standing or crouching on the ground, the ‘Embryology’ series which was shown in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and a series of paintings entitled ‘Faces’, which, ironically, are not portraits.

Magdalena Abakanowicz, who turned eighty yesterday, has had over 100 individual exhibitions and her works are in the collections of 120 museums and private galleries, including Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

She won the Gold Medal at the São Paulo Art Biennale in 1965. (mk)

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