During a ribbon-cutting ceremony held close to her installation entitled ‘Maple cascade’, Brzeziński said that Łódź had a very special place in his mother’s heart.
“She used to visit the place from time to time, taking with her a group of 10 to 15 people, often of Ukrainian descent, who felled the trees on the town outskirts for her. It was the material that she used in her sculptures”, the Ambassador said.
‘Maple cascade’ was created by Emilie Benes-Brzeziński in 2006. The artist worked mainly in wood, which she often processed with chain saws, a chisel or sometimes with an axe.
Born in Geneva in 1932, Emilie Berens-Brzeziński was a niece of the former Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes and the wife of Zbigniew Brzeziński, President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser. Her sculptures are in art collections across the world. She died in 2022.
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Source: PAP