Maria Bartuszová
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
21 July 2023 – 7 January 2024
Maria Bartuszová, 2023, installation view, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Courtesy: © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, photo: Rainer Iglar
Maria Bartuszová, 2023, installation view, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Courtesy: © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, photo: Rainer Iglar
Maria Bartuszová, 2023, installation view, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Courtesy: © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, photo: Rainer Iglar
Maria Bartuszová, 2023, installation view, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Courtesy: © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, photo: Rainer Iglar
Alison Jacques is pleased to announce the opening of Maria Bartuszová’s retrospective at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Travelling from Tate Modern, London, and curated by Harald Krejci, Marijana Schneider (Museum der Moderne Salzburg) and Juliet Bingham (Tate Modern), this survey brings together rarely exhibited works, spanning Bartuszová’s 35-year career.
The exhibition begins in the 1960s, when Bartuszová created her own experimental method of casting plaster by hand. Pushing, pulling or submerging her casts in water, Bartuszová was able to create organic forms that bare resemblance to the natural world, later working in aluminium and bronze as her practice developed, creating fragile, evanescent forms akin to cocoons or nests.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with foreword by Frances Morris and an essay by Juliet Bingham. Other contributing writers include Gabriela Garlatyová, Gabriel Kladek, Marie Klimešová, Harald Krejci, Lisa Le Feuvre, Lucia Gregorová Statch and Dina Akhmadeeva. The Estate of Maria Bartuszová and Alison Jacques, London, have recently published the first catalogue raisonné in English, 26 years after the artist’s passing. The monograph provides a comprehensive overview of Bartuszová’s sculptural work, techniques and methods.