Drawing on the work of prominent art historians, curators, critics, and collectors, this exhibition catalogue presents the most current research on the work of Alina Szapocznikow.
Born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1926, Szapocznikow studied in Prague and Paris, spent the last decade of her life in France, and created an impressive number of sculptures and drawings that are now defined as post-surrealist and proto-feminist. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work in Germany and France, along with acquisitions by prominent collections worldwide, have bolstered Szapocznikow’s international reputation and ignited discussion of her significance to twentieth-century art.
Table of Contents
Agata Jakubowska, Joanna Mytkowska
Introduction
Alina Szapocznikow
“My Work Has Its Roots…” (1972)
I. Alina Szapocznikow—Works and Interpretations
Selected Works / Photographs
Marta Dziewanska
Awkward Objects: Creative Barbarity—On Awkward Beginnings
Jola Gola
L’œil du Bœf—Finding the Key to the Works of Alina Szapocznikow
Griselda Pollock
Too Early and Too Late: Melting Solids and Traumatic Encryption in the Sculptural Dissolutions of Alina Szapocznikow
Anda Rottenberg
Personalizations
Ernst van Alphen
Sheer Skin: The Dissolution of Sculptural Skin and Sculpted Skin
Agata Jakubowska
Alina Szapocznikow’s “Leg” and “Goldfinger”: Between Reality and Illusion
Manuela Ammer
“My American Dream”: Alina Szapocznikow’s Take on Conceptual Art
Anke Kempkes
Black Drips and Dark Matter—The Luxury Gap—Concept Individuel—Quarry Desert: The Incommensurable Contemporaneity of Alina Szapocznikow
Pawel Leszkowicz
Alina Szapocznikow’s Piotr, or “The Flesh of My Son”
Sarah Wilson
Alina Szapocznikow in Paris: Worlds in Action and in Retrospect
II. Alina Szapocznikow—From the Archives
Tomáš Pospiszyl
Alena Šapocniková in Prague
Photographs from the Archive of Alina Szapocznikow
III.
Alina Szapocznikow: A Biography
Contributors
List of Works and Photo Credits
Introduction
Alina Szapocznikow
“My Work Has Its Roots…” (1972)
I. Alina Szapocznikow—Works and Interpretations
Selected Works / Photographs
Marta Dziewanska
Awkward Objects: Creative Barbarity—On Awkward Beginnings
Jola Gola
L’œil du Bœf—Finding the Key to the Works of Alina Szapocznikow
Griselda Pollock
Too Early and Too Late: Melting Solids and Traumatic Encryption in the Sculptural Dissolutions of Alina Szapocznikow
Anda Rottenberg
Personalizations
Ernst van Alphen
Sheer Skin: The Dissolution of Sculptural Skin and Sculpted Skin
Agata Jakubowska
Alina Szapocznikow’s “Leg” and “Goldfinger”: Between Reality and Illusion
Manuela Ammer
“My American Dream”: Alina Szapocznikow’s Take on Conceptual Art
Anke Kempkes
Black Drips and Dark Matter—The Luxury Gap—Concept Individuel—Quarry Desert: The Incommensurable Contemporaneity of Alina Szapocznikow
Pawel Leszkowicz
Alina Szapocznikow’s Piotr, or “The Flesh of My Son”
Sarah Wilson
Alina Szapocznikow in Paris: Worlds in Action and in Retrospect
II. Alina Szapocznikow—From the Archives
Tomáš Pospiszyl
Alena Šapocniková in Prague
Photographs from the Archive of Alina Szapocznikow
III.
Alina Szapocznikow: A Biography
Contributors
List of Works and Photo Credits