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Do you understand Mária Bartuszová’s art better than children do?
Cal Revely-Calder, The Telegraph
September 2022
When someone looks at a 20th-century artwork and says “that could be done by a five-year-old”, they’re trying to hide a fear: that an adult is supposed to interpret art, but here they don’t know how. Mária Bartuszová’s plaster sculptures, which dominate this absorbing Tate Modern survey, prick up, then refuse to assuage that very anxiety. It may even be, they whisper, that interpretation isn’t what you need. […]