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‎Tapta‎

‎Warsaw, Arton Foundation, 2021 Original publisher's binding, 99 pages, 24 x 17.5 cm. English text. Good condition. ISBN 9788395648854.‎

‎Tapta (born Maria Wierusz-Kowalska) was born in Poland in 1926 and came to Belgium in 1945. She studied visual arts and weaving at the National Higher Institute of Architecture and Visual Arts in La Cambre in Brussels, graduating in 1949. From 1950 to 1960, she lived in the Congo with her husband Krzysztof Wierusz-Kowalski. After returning to Belgium, she quickly gained recognition as one of the leading representatives of a new generation of artists redefining sculpture by using thread and fabric as full-fledged sculptural elements. She used the term "soft sculpture" (sculpture souple) to describe her work, expressing her constant desire to expand the definition of the medium by considering the simultaneous fluidity and tension of fabric. In 1975, she obtained the title of professor and took over the tapestry workshop in La Cambre. Among her students were Ann Veronica Janssens, Monica Droste and Marie-Jo Lafontaine. Tapta died in 1997. The exhibition Tapta, organized by the Arton Foundation, is the second presentation of the artist's work in Poland - her works were previously shown at the Zach?ta in 1997. At the exhibition "Tapta" at the Arton Foundation, which reminds us of the artist, we present mobile models of her sculptures, showing her creative process, "soft sculptures" from the 70s and photographic documentation of her works in public space. The exhibition is the result of cooperation between the Arton Foundation, the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and the Maurice Verbaet Gallery.‎