Ria Bosman : selected works, 1978-2021 / authors, Isabelle De Baets, Paul de Moor, Wim Lambrecht, Risa Bosman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosman, Ria.

Baets, Isabelle de, writer of added commentary.

Moor, Paul de, writer of added commentary.

Lambrecht, Wim, 1973- writer of added commentary.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Bosman, Ria.

Art, Abstract--Belgium.

Art, Abstract.

Art, Belgian.

Textile fabrics in art.

Tapestry.

Flax.

Color in art.

Physical Description:

214 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Selected works 1978-2021

Place of Publication:

Ghent, Belgium : MER, [2022]

Language Note:

Parallel texts in English and Dutch.

Summary:

Ria Bosman's body of work spans four decades. Like all abstract art, her work does not depict anything other than its presence as an object. Her woven pieces are minimal, geometric, and repetitive. Coloured strips of flax are tightly woven into flat tapestries, and only show a play of straight lines and rectangular planes, or small monochrome works that consist of pieces of leather glued together with paint; they form prolonged, recurring series in her oeuvre. Silent witnesses of: nothing. Yet her works resist a negative description with all their might, they are: something. They represent the hope that bright artifacts can emerge from the unknown visible, in order to contemplate that unknown, 'Untitled'.

Contents:

Embracing stillness through colour and matter = De stilte omarmen met kleur en materie

Same road, different path = Même route, autre chemin

A voyage round my room =Voyage autour de ma chambre

Contemplations = Beshouwing

Vita = Vita

List of works = Lijst van werken.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789463937351

9463937358

OCLC:

1329223091