Maria Bartuszová @ galeria mesta bratislavy (bratislava)

In addition to old wooden halls of religious and genre paintings, the bratislava city gallery is showing an expansive body of works by slovak heroine, sculptress Maria Bartuszová. It’s exactly what i wanted to see here, in a city known for its soviet-era brutalism. Bartuszova takes hardness and makes it soft, with arrangements that mirror ecological systems and forms with strong currents of eroticism. Gorgeous work, gorgeously presented.