PACITA ABAD: STITCHING SOLIDARITIES
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN: OPENING 8 JULY 2027
Zaujímali ju semienka púpavy aj kvapky dažďa. Maria Bartuszová povyšovala prírodné procesy na zázrak umenia | She was interested in dandelion seeds and raindrops. Maria Bartuszová elevated natural processes into the miracle of art
Zuzana Bartošová, SME
June 2026
She was interested in rain, snow, germination, the layering of scales on ripening fruit, their bursting open, the growth of stalks. These are phenomena that few would dare to express through sculpture. But Maria Bartuszová (1936, Prague – 1996, Košice), working far from the centres of artistic activity, dared to do so.
She did not model clay or carve stone. She poured plaster into rubber balloons and allowed it to harden into rounded forms, tying them while still soft in order to point to the material’s malleability. With great mastery, she multiplied the casting process, creating layers of fragile shells in compositions of ovoid forms. […]