Magdalena Abakanowicz

"My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers... I try to bewitch the crowd."

"I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm."

http://www.abakanowicz.art.pl/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Abakanowicz

music - Warszawa by David Bowie

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[krysant50]

the wholessness of HUMAN WORLD experience have come to her works here

made many years ago they stand in STILLNESS, words unspoken yet crying out for the BEINGS tortured, thrown in the garbage of the today's world

they stand for all the guilt, shame, cruelty of the human mind that has done it all to ITSELF,we have done all this to ourselves

all of THEM here are the marching witnesses of the UNHUMAN WORLD made by humans

the shuttered parade of the modern US

krys

[TheArchaicSmile]

@krysant50 thank you Krys for as Priscella says " your excellent words " and also for the interesting background on David Bowie's visit to Poland.

[tolgreen]

JUST AMAZING..

HER ART...

AND YOUR VID...

THE VOICE .SOUND...

MADE IT MASTERLY ...

KRYS WILL GIVE MORE EXCELLENT WORDS....

THANK YOU MY SUSIE...

FOR THE MAGNIFICENT SHOW

OUTSTANDING!!!

[TheArchaicSmile]

@tolgreen thank you Priscella glad you enjoyed the slideshow - truly amazing artist

Sue x

[krysant50]

@TheArchaicSmile i felt that need to talk about BOWIE, i still cry every time i hear warszawa, even now, after so many times ive listened to him. bless this talented, sensitive guy! you caught in just few moments the CORE of POLISH HEART and PAST here, SUE. i dare say YOU ARE A SENSITIVE GENIUS. just sent your video link to the video maker of abakanowicz video youve sent me.

[krysant50]

how warszawa music was made, part 3: it was a fine warm weather after 2day heat in warsaw.he picked a few lps with local music. one of them was Śląsk folk group album called :HELOKANIE". next day press informed of a famous architect visit oscar niemeyer in warsaw, new sound signal for TV station written by polish composer wojciech kilar. not a word about Bowie's visit.

Not until BOWIE's LOW album was released in 1977, did Polish fans learned about his Music called "warszawa".

[krysant50]

how Warszawa music was made part 2: He was going westbound afraid of flights as had that nightmare vision of plane crash. he had already covered the distance of 9thousand kilometers from Chabarovsk, Russia to Moscow. Made it to Warsaw on Ost-West express going from Moscow to Paris . the date was 1973,May 3rd, perhaps Thursday.the train had exactly 42 minutes of stopover in Warszawa Gdańska Station.David had that much time to have a stroll. he made his way to the bookshop. 

[krysant50]

how Warszawa music was made part !, Polish press clip of Bowiie's visit to Poland:"One stroll in Warszawa or How Revolution History in Pop Music Was Made". Made his fame as Ziggy Stardust to win the rock music stage as Alien from space.played part of a mysterious man who came to earth in sf movie. then just changed the trains in Warsaw coming from Russian Far east where he attracted attention of Russians in the streets of Moscow.