Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Magdalena Abakanowicz was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist. Known for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium and for outdoor installations, Abakanowicz has been considered among the most influen
Abakanowicz in her studio, 2010
Nierozpoznani ("The Unrecognised Ones", 2002) at the Cytadela Park in Poznań, Poland (whole installation)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Untitled, 1980–1983. This image is a detail of Untitled, one of the largest sisal weavings Abakanowicz ever made.
Space of Unknown Growth (1997–1998) at the Europos Parkas, Lithuania
Falenty
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Falenty is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raszyn, within Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
…Poland, from 1965 to 1990, and as a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 1984. She was born to a noble landowning family in Falenty, near Warsaw, before the outbreak of World War II. Her formative years were marred by the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which her family became…
Falenty Palace (early 17th century), currently a Technological Institute
Monument at the site of a German Nazi massacre of 100 Poles from 1943