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Maria Bartuszova review — this Tate retrospective is inspiring
Laura Freeman, The Times
September 2022
There’s a scene in every dinosaur film when the hero finds a nest of broken eggs. Something — some infant pterodactyl or toddling velociraptor; perhaps a whole brood of them — is on the loose. I thought of such egg escapees at Tate Modern’s retrospective of the sculptor Maria Bartuszova (“Bar-too-zhoh-va”), who was born in Prague in 1936 and worked for most of her life in the city of Kosice, near the border of Hungary and Ukraine. […]