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Lenore Tawney collages, In Chaco and The Loftiest Give-and-take and sculpture, Boy with Duck, at AIFAF

From February tertiary to the eighth. browngrotta arts will bring together more than than 80 international galleries exhibiting at the American International Fine Fine art Fair (AIFAF) in Palm Beach, Florida. AIFAF is recognized as the "crown gem" of American fine art fairs and is the only American art and antiques fair rated five stars by The Art Paper. AIFAF is a fully vetted fair, featuring prestigious international dealers presenting a mix of paintings, sculpture, jewelry, antiques, gimmicky design and decorative arts. In cooperation with the Baruch Foundation and the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, browngrotta arts will feature the work of Magdalena Abakanowicz and Lenore Tawney at AIFAF, artists whose piece of work redefined weaving and sculpture in the 20th Century.

Abakanowicz is the all-time-known Polish artist in the world. She initially gained acclamation for her "Abakans," awe-inspiring woven works of sisal, ropes and other fibers that hung costless in space. Next were headless human forms of burlap and later bronze. Big groupings of her sculptures are installed around the world, from Chicago'south Millennium Park to Olympic Park in Seoul to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In presenting her a Visionaries! award in 2000, the Museum of Arts and Blueprint cited her for "her powerful explorations, dealing with the impact of social and political reality on individual identity, that have demonstrated the potential of fiber equally an effective and expressive sculptural fabric."

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Weavings by Magdalena Abakanowicz at AIFAF. The weavings on the far right and far left were woven in the 1980s; the piece in the centre is from the 1960s.

At AIFAF, browngrotta arts will showroom three weavings by Abakanowicz, one from the 1960s and two, from the Anne and Jacques Baruch Drove, Ltd., created in the 1980s. The Baruchs opened a gallery in Chicago in the late 1960s, bringing work to the U. South. from Central Europe in gild to give exposure to the Slavic art that Jacques, who died in 1986, once described as "the finest piece of work of tomorrow…not what is known…the new blood." Jacques was unable to travel afterwards 1970, merely Anne continued to travel to Primal Europe to search for art. As the political situation in the surface area tightened, Anne, began smuggling art into the United states of america, ofttimes at great hazard. Regime agents would seal her packages of approved art earlier she left; with the aid of artists, she would often unseal the packages and reseal them in order to add together unsanctioned works. She would travel with a brilliant red Hartman suitcase with a false lesser, filled with art supplies that the artists could non buy. On her return trip, artworks would be hidden within. In this manner, Anne clustered a singular collection of contemporary textiles and historical and contemporary Czech photography. The Baruch Foundation was established in 2008, subsequent to Anne'due south death in 2006 and is comprised of her personal fine art collection and the artwork inventory of The Anne and Jacques Baruch Drove, Ltd. The missions of the Foundation are to preserve and foster the growth of the visual arts of Eastern and Key Europe through donations of artwork to museums and schools, and to fund educational programs and scholarships past the sale of artwork.

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Works by Lenore Tawney on display in the browngrotta arts booth at AIFAF.

At AIFAF, browngrotta arts will also show weavings, drawings, collages and mixed media assemblages by Lenore Tawney, who died in 2007 at the historic period of 100. "Luminous is an apt word to depict the entire career of the American artist Lenore Tawney," wrote Holland Cotter in the New York Times in 2004. In the 1950's, he noted, "she created a series of monumental open-weave sculptures that were like nothing seen before or since. Astonishing." Well-nigh her collages Cotter has written, "Whether she sets cutting-up bits of handwriting spinning effectually a reproduction of a Michelangelo sibyl or turns strips of antique High german books into suspended grids, she touches on the roots of the collage medium in language and personal history with a reticent orginality." The Lenore One thousand Tawney Foundation was established in 1989 by Tawney for charitable and educational purposes. Its aim is to support other artists in their own artistic efforts and to support special projects at art museums and non-turn a profit educational arts organizations; its highest priority is to nurture emerging artists and to provide them with learning opportunities through established educational programs.