Alina Szapocznikow Sculpture Undone 1955-1972

*** A modern sculptor exhibits a lifetime of pain. ***
Great sculptor, innovative work, gruesome imagery.
Alina was Jewish, raised in occupied Poland, forced
to suffer thru imprisonment at Auschwitz. As if that’s
not enough hardship for one person to bear, she was
stricken w/​and later died of tuberculosis cancer at 47.
Yet during her battle with tuberculosis (1955 – 1972) she
managed to express herself uniquely through sculpture.
Much of the art here is molded dismembered body parts.
It is not aesthetically pleasing but rather it’s disconcerting.
I would even say some of it made me very uncomfortable,
e.g. fully nude piece of her grown son in a Christ-​like way.
*** Not necessarily my cup of tea but meaningful work. ***