Polish nose shape12/9/2023 ![]() ![]() More than decorative, they invite physical and psychological closeness. ![]() They invite reverie and it is little wonder some of their titles are female names, like Helena and Desdemona.Ībakanowicz’s often close-toned woven textile works, which she continued to make until the mid-1960s, are almost paintings by other means. So, too, their details and shifts in texture invite and invoke a distant, almost pre-verbal intimacy, an almost primordial fascination, such as you might feel sitting on a grandmother’s lap or staring at patches of moss and tree bark, and things growing among fallen leaves. ![]() Just as these hangings consumed the artist, they consume the viewer, too, and their material warmth and earthy organic smell are as comforting as a lullaby. These large-scale works are the product of a roving eye in cramped conditions, when there’s no room to step back. Although carefully worked-out in gouache drawings and collages, Abakanowicz’s wall hangings take on a palpable life of their own. The detail sucks you into these the woven patchworks of rough stitching, gouts of horsehair, jaggedy, knotty lumps, the shifts between light and dark and the shearings between colours, materials and textures. Her very large woollen wall hangings, sometimes combining areas of fleece, horsehair, cotton and artificial silk, demand you get up close as well as see from afar. Photograph: Pierre Le Hors/© Fundacja Marty Magdaleny Abakanowicz Kosmowskiej i Jana, Warsaw. ![]()
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