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2001 - 2002

Dancing figures

author

Magdalena Abakanowicz

description

Mediums: bronze.
Location: Tokyo park (Japan).

Unlike other multi-figured monuments, impressive due to their static and gloomy alienation, several compositions with dancing figures are dynamic and glorify life. Seven running dance participants are set up in open space in a semicircle, as if they are a “scrap” of large round dance. A year earlier, the artist created six such life-size characters (their “height” is from 150 to 165 cm) burlap and resin without heads; in 2005, a variant of five figures moving in succession appeared and also became an open-air composition.