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‘Table with Bird’s Feet,’ 1973 (copy of the 1939 original) Although she didn’t like being categorized as a Surrealist, Oppenheim’s sculptures tended toward the bizarre and dreamlike. “She liked to take utilitarian objects and make them into a fantasy,” Wasserman says. This table not only has bird feet, but it also has “traces of birds walking on it,” Wasserman notes. For Oppenheim, the relationship between humans and the environment was a kind of friendship.
level. One display case is dedicated to letters and postcards written to Trevor Winkfield, who met the 63-year-old Oppenheim in 1976, when he was 22. The pen pals traded philosophical musings. Oppenheim was struck by the close bond between Bettina Brentano and Karoline von Gunderrode, two 18th-century poets, and dedicated paintings and prints to them. Other pieces are more-abstract takes on friendship as the relationship between humans and nature. The concept of friendship extends to the people who brought the exhibit together. After a collector of Oppenheim’s artwork died, a friend acquired it and donated it to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in her memory. “It was a great act of friendship,” says curator Krystyna Wasserman, herself a friend of both the late collector and the benefactor. “This is the reason we called the exhibition ‘Tender Friendships.’ ” ELENA GOUK ASSIAN (FOR E XPRESS)
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