jan 1, 1960 - Magdalena Abakanowicz's first solo exhibition in Warsaw

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Her first solo exhibition of oil and gouache paintings is held at the Ministry of Art and Culture’s Galeria Kordegarda in Warsaw, but it is closed by authorities before it opens to the general public.

The first show – what an excitement. I came one hour before the opening to check all the details. I could not enter; the door was locked … The next day we learned that the authorities found the show to be ‘formalistic,’ that means not engaged with building socialism, thus a tendency disapproved in art. The show was closed before it ever opened. We realized that the ‘thaw’ that had come after Stalin’s death was over. The old rules returned.
Magdalena Abakanowicz

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