Alina Szapocznikow's Long-overdue First US Show

NOVEMBER 17, 2007 JANUARY 5, 2008 OPENING  RECEPTION SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  
BROADWAY 1602  Gallery 1182  Broadway, Suite 1602 (between 28 & 29 Street), New York, NY 10001
tel/fax: 212-481-0362, gallery@broadway1602.com

Opening  Hours: Wednesday to  Saturday 2 - 6 PM and by appointment

Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) held a unique  position in the post-war European avant-garde. In the 1960s and early  1970s, she was one of the first artists to experiment with polyester,  which she used to cast parts of her face and body to montage them into  grotesque and sexually charged assemblages. Szapocznikows oeuvre  spans a continuously productive period from the 1950s to her untimely  death in 1973. Her drawings and sculptures represent a previously unseen fusion of a late dark Surrealism with the bright and sexually
provocative  side of Pop-Art.

Selected Exhibitions:

2007 Alina  Szapocznikow, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
2007 Alina  Szapocznikow, Documenta 2007, Kassel, Germany
2004 Flesh  at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1998/9 Alina Szapocznikow  1926-1973, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw; National Museum, Krakow; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz; National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland

Presented by:
BROADWAY 1602 and the Polish Cultural  Institute