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Sophie Tauber Arp in a renaissance at Hauser and Wirth, online

Image courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.

A very bright spot in the online horizon is today's upload by Hauser And Wirth of the work of Swiss Sophie Tauber Arp. Like many women of the period of early 20th century, her multi disciplinary career as artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect and dancer has been obscured by her more famous husband, Hans Arp. She was hard to pigeonhole, at times a constructivist, a concretist, a dadaist, a Bauhausian. She died too young, a mishap with a stove. Her work looks joyous, restrained but somehow free-spirited and it's a pleasure to see it along with documents and photographs. See especially the little Pompadour, her charming puppets and costumes, a wood Marital sculpture she did with her husband and the video. Image courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.