Marion Baruch's Textile Works at Viasaterna, Milan

Marion Baruch, born in Timișoara in 1929 to Hungarian-Jewish parents, presents her first solo show at Viasaterna in Milan, featuring 19 textile works created over the past twelve years. The exhibition spans two floors, showcasing her practice of using discarded tailoring scraps as ready-made sculptures. Baruch selects and pins these fabric remnants to walls, allowing gravity to shape their final form. Titles in multiple languages hint at interpretation, as in Cleopatra (2018), where gold and dark sides evoke royalty and tragedy. Key works include Schwerkraft (2018), Senza Parole (2018), Una storia che si ripete (2023), and the new series Meccanismo di precisione per sculture (2022). Baruch studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, later in Jerusalem, and settled in Gallarate, Italy, after 1954. She collaborated with Dino Gavina and gallerist Luciano Inga-Pinn, lived in Paris from 1993 to 2010, and her works are held by institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Mamco Geneva, and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.