Magdalena Abakanowicz, A Fortunate Narrative

Abstract

This article is an homage to Magdalena Abakanowicz. It shares memories, impressions, and strong images of our meetings which have been real lessons in art and in life. There are three specific moments of what I call My Abakanowicz years: the studies at the Poznan studio (1973‒1974), her retrospective exhibition L’imaginaire et le monde organique at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal (1983), and the same year, an artist residency at the Fiber Studio conjoined by an exhibition at the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.

Keywords:

• Magdalena Abakanowicz
• Michelle Héon
• fiber studio
• Banff Art Centre
• fiber art

Notes

1. Since 2010, University of Arts in Poznan.

2. Since 2016, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

3. The Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial, catalogue 1969.

4. Since 1979, The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.

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Michelle Héon

MICHELLE HEON

Michelle Héon is an artist whose visual art practice is primarily installation. Her works have been shown in Europe, the United States and Canada, at the 12th Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial (1985), The Art Gallery of the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo (1992), The Third Guangzhou Triennial (2008), National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia (2012). In 1993 she was awarded a Prix des Arts at UNESCO, Paris. She was Associate Director, Visual Art Program at The Banff Art Centre, Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal and at Ecole européenne supérieure de l’Image, Poitiers and Angoulême, France, where she is associate researcher.

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