İpli̇kten çözülenler : tekstilde küresel anlatılar = The event of a thread : global narratives in textiles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kantarcı, N. Can, editor.

İstanbul Modern.

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Textile crafts--21st century--Exhibitions.

Textile crafts.

Textile crafts--Turkey--Exhibitions.

Turkey.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Tekstilde küresel anlatılar

Event of a thread : global narratives in textiles

Global narratives in textiles

Place of Publication:

Beyoğlu, İstanbul : İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi Geçici Mekân, [2019]

Language Note:

Text in Turkish and English.

Summary:

The Event of a Thread" brings together 25 international contemporary artists, who use textile to create aesthetic and cultural narratives through objects, installations and video works. The title of the exhibition is a quotation from On Weaving (1965), the reference book by Anni Albers, one of the most important artists from the Bauhaus textile workshops. Albers believed that socio-cultural and economic activities impacted textiles, and stated that "Just as it is possible to go from any place to any other, so also, starting from a defined and specialized field, can one arrive at a realization of ever-extending relationships. Thus tangential subjects come into view.?" According to Albers, one could discover "the event of a thread"? at the root of each development. In the exhibition, weaving threads are utilized as a metaphor, which facilitate the interaction of weaving styles, stories and production techniques from different cultures, and mediate the development of new connections between them. Organized in collaboration with the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), one of the oldest art institutions in Germany, the exhibition is curated by Susanne Weiss and Inka Gressel on the invitation of ifa and aims to build on the original selection by creating new connections in each institution the exhibition travels to, with the assistance of curators at each institution and the addition of new works from local artists.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at İstanbul Modern, February 22-July 7, 2019.

"'The Event of a Thread' is an exhibition of IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) made in collaboration with Istanbul Modern and supported by Goethe-Institut Istanbul"--Page after page 231.

ISBN:

9789756167854

9756167858

OCLC:

1096280838