Museum Rijswijk

Open: Tuesday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

A huge pile of discarded clothes has swallowed up the historic furniture in the study of Museum Rijswijk, where 19th-century poet Hendrick Tollens once worked. This installation by Derick Melander is representative of the 4th Rijswijk Textile Biennial: textile that looks beyond its own material.

Museum Rijswijk is showing textile artworks by nineteen international artists. Apart from the great diversity of textiles and applications, there are also conspicuously common threads among the participants this year. The most important one? All the submitted works provide material for thought and reflection.

Textile inherently appeals to the touch. Sensations and associations are evoked at the touch and sight of particular fabrics. Vintage clothes and hand-crafted pieces, that only a couple of generations ago were made in every household, conjure up memories of particular people or times.

Making one’s own clothes, embroidery and knitting are no longer a natural part of daily household tasks and techniques are being forgotten.

This is not the case for the 19 international artists of this 4th Rijswijk Textile Biennial. Vintage textile, wool, embroidery floss and flax are used in combination with techniques such as weaving, cross-stitching and knitting to conjure up loving memories, melancholy or even alienation through a contemporary idiom.

In Kari Steihaug’s work old clothes and their previous wearers are reunited. She partly unravels knitted Norwegian jumpers and with the freed yarn knits a group portrait of those who have worn the jumpers. The fragility of our existence is central to Ying Chew’s work. She uses embroidery techniques and Victorian mourning motifs to give the viewer cause for thought. With imagery and techniques rooted in Latin American folk art, Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone make large tapestries that portray themselves (with their Dachshund Piolin) in worlds of dreams, myths and legends.

Existing portraits are stitched and sewn upon by Monica Bohlmann until they become a high-relief image of an archetypal woman. Pauline M.M. Nijenhuis’s work induces a feeling of speed. Her depictions illustrate the most common views of our time: landscapes seen from a moving car.

All artists:

Caroline Bartlett (UK), Monica Bohlmann (DE), Ying Chew (AUS), Chiachio & Giannone (ARG), Ane Henriksen (DK), Raija Jokinen (FI), Katie Lewis (USA), Ruben Marroquin (USA), Amanda McCavour (CA), Caitlin McCormack (USA), Derick Melander (USA), Stephanie Metz (USA), Pauline M.M. Nijenhuis (NL), Henrique van Putten (NL), Rebecca Ringquist (USA), Ida-Lovisa Rudolfsson (SE), Debra M. Smith (USA), Kari Steihaug (NO), Mai Tabakian (FR)

Catalogue

An illustrated, full-colour and bilingual (Dutch/English) catalogue of the works of participating artists is accompanying the Textile Biennial. Author of the catalogue is art historian Frank van der Ploeg. ISBN/EAN 978-90-821807-3-2. Retail price: € 19.75.

Textile Market

On Sunday 13 September from 1 to 5 pm there will be a big textile market in the forecourt of the museum and in the Oude Kerk opposite the museum.

The Textile Festival 2015 and the European Textile Network Conference in Leiden:

The first week of the Textile Biennial coincides with the Textile Festival 2015 (13 -16 May) http://www.textielfestival.nl/ and the European Textile Network Conference (13-19 May). http://www.etn-net.org/etn/211e.htm

For more information or photographs: a.kloosterboer@museumrijswijk.nl or +31 (0)70 3903617

Museum Rijswijk

Herenstraat 67

2282 BR Rijswijk

http://www.museumrijswijk.nl/rtb2015/index.html

The Museum Bellerive is showcasing the appeal of flowers as a decorative motif. Some 300 objects of glass art, furniture, ceramics, textiles and graphic design offer a wide range of insights into the collections of the Museum für Gestaltung. The exhibition reveals the personal styles of important designers as well as the preferences of various periods for certain flowers. The profound millefleur patterns of William Morris’s wallpapers and the lilies and thistles of Emile Gallé’s vases were popular in the Belle Époque. While in the 1970s people preferred eye-catching daises, today fine silks from the company Fabric Frontline feature detailed botanical reproductions. The poster designers represented in the exhibition, on the other hand, take advantage of the versatility of flowers, which can be used to say (almost) anything, in order to interest passers-by in a wide variety of products. Andy Warhol does so with humour, and Lora Lamm makes use of poetry. Idiosyncratic works from a variety of artists, including Quynh Dong, Reto Leibundgut, Ursula Palla and Mai Tabakian round out this bouquet.

Vernissage
Jeudi 20 Novembre 2014, à 19h

21.11.2014 - 29.03.2015
Mardi–Dimanche 10h–17h

Museum Bellerive - Höschgasse 3, CH-8008 Zürich

Phone: +41 43 446 44 69

>> More informations on: Museum Bellerive's website

CYCLO, nous renvoyant avant tout à la notion de cycle, murmure le fil conducteur de l’exposition.
D’abord, le cycle en tant que phase ou alternance de phases. Le cycle des saisons tel que représenté dans la pièce "36 vues", hommage à Hokusaï et sa série d’estampes du Mont Fuji ; celui de la reproduction mis en scène de façon drôle et cruelle dans la sculpture-objet "Les petits soldats", jeu de solitaire exigeant forcément qu’à la fin de la partie il ne reste plus qu’un seul pion… ; le cycle de développement d’un organisme vivant vu au microscope dans le grand tondo "La Route de la soie" ; le cycle économique dont les rouages et les méandres sont disséqués dans "La nouvelle Route de la soie", une mystérieuse colonie de cocons luisants, comme enrobés de pétrole, symbolisant la nouvelle donne des échanges économiques liés à la précieuse matière première ; le cycle de création dans "The Wall", un mur de briques colorées qui mélange joyeusement une abstraction géométrique
épurée à des formes organiques beaucoup plus terriennes, dans ce perpétuel jeu entre attraction et répulsion propre au travail de Mai Tabakian.

Et aussi, le cycle matérialisé par un cercle, représentation de l’infini, de l'unité et du multiple, du plein et de la perfection, de l’absolu, à l’instar des mandalas "Slices" ou de la quête de la moitié perdue du mythe d’Aristophane illustrée par les "Trophées", étranges moitiés de fruits sur le point de reformer un tout.

CYCLO, c’est enfin un clin d’oeil au Vietnam, celui des cyclos, transporteurs mythiques aujourd’hui en voie de disparition. Le Vietnam dont l’influence discrète et persistante se fait sentir dans les formes utilisées par l’artiste franco-vietnamienne, celle notamment du « lingam », pierre dressée ouvertement phallique issue des croyances hindouistes, qu’on retrouve par exemple dans la série des "Champions’ League" ; le Vietnam qui nourrit une recherche plastique inédite où l’hybride et l’organique occupent une place centrale.

Vernissage en présence de l’artiste le samedi 18 octobre de 15 à 20 heures

Catalogue de l'exposition avec un texte de Marie Deparis-Yafil.

Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery

Ouvert du mercredi au samedi de 14 à 19h et sur RDV
Léon Lepagestraat 11 Rue Léon Lepage / 1000 Bruxelles
Tél : 00 32 (0)2 611 51 70 / Mob 00 32 (0)478 84 89 81 / mh@mathildehatzenberger.eu

www.mathildehatzenberger.eu

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