Dimensions: 65 x 54 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'Alina Slesinska | 1990'.
Biography
Studied in Cracow with Xawery Dunikowski and in Warsaw, in the studio of Marian Wnuk. The second half of the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s marked the period of her greatest artistic career and national and worldwide fame. Contributing factors included her spectacular success at the "Architecture of Sculpture, Sculpture of Architecture" exhibition at the Third Bienalle in Paris in 1963 and her participation in art projects; at the construction of the city of Brasilia in Latin America, at the invitation of Oscar Niemeyer, and in Ghana, at the invitation of the President. Her interests, like those of Alina Szapocznikow, with whom she competed, oscillated around biomorphic sculpture, especially by Henry Moor, and projects combining the achievements of architecture and sculpture. In parallel with painting, sculpture and architecture, she created tapestries, as exemplified by the work on display. Forgotten later in life, she died in 1994 in Warsaw.
