Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crowd and Individual / Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Crowd and Individual is a large installation at Fondazione Giorgio Gini in Venice (Italy) by the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. Abakanowicz is known for her works of crowds of individuals. In Venice, she presents the work “Crowd and Individual”, which consists of 110 humanoid burlap figures, mostly headless, marching inexorably towards a single animal sculpture set opposite them (the so-called Mutant). The individuals are mainly textile busts, empty shells like tree trunks, portrayed in the act of wal