Tapta

1926-1997 (PL)

Maria Wierusz-Kowalski aka Tapta arrived in Belgium as a political refugee at the age of 18, after the liberation of Warsaw. In 1949 she graduated from the Atelier d'Art du Tissu of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts visuels (La Cambre). At the end of her studies, she moved to Equatorial Africa for ten years. Her stay, during which she exper­i­ment­ed with textiles soaked in different materials, profoundly marked her work.