COLLEZIONE GORI

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1985 – canapa, wood

At the top of the first flight of stairs in the fattoria, this work resembles a human back, seen through a window that opens onto the landing. The room holding the installation is locked, and one can only view the interior through a tiny window. Looking through this one sees a small, almost monastic cell with two high white wooden stools on which sit two burlap forms shaped like curved human backs, both of which lack heads, arms and legs.

Artist

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz (Falenty, 1930 – Warsaw, 2017) Giuliano Gori invited Magdalena Abakanowicz to work in Celle after seeing her solo exhibition at the Polish pavilion at the 1980 Venice Biennale…

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