Textile Adventures

Textile Adventures

Textile Adventures

Her whole life this woman has been in love with textiles, patterns, colours and texture. Looking back now, with 82 years, Sheila Hicks can claim to have always followed her passion.

What makes her work so special is her painterly and architectural approach to textile design. Along with other fiber artists, she is responsible for taking textiles off the wall and giving them a sculptural dimension.

Just awesome!

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Sheila Hicks by Julia Noni

 

What fascinates me most, is the amazing variety of her work. She has started with minimal weavings, which she was inspired to during her trips through Mexico. For more then 50 years now she always carries a small handmade wooden frame in her bag around the world. The hundreds of works have the size of a piece of notebook paper:

 

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Other works of Sheila Hicks have the sizes of footbal fields like this huge installation called „The silk rainforest“.

 

The silk rainforest 1975

The silk rainforest 1975

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„May I have this dance?“ Sheila Hicks (spacematters)

 

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Sheila Hicks for galeriefrankelbaz.com

 

Sheila Hicks detail Domus

Sheila Hicks detail Domus

 

I wish I was a wave, 2015, Sheila Hicks, by Demish Danant

I wish I was a wave, 2015, Sheila Hicks, by Demish Danant

 

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Sheila Hicks at Art Basel 2013

 

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Sheila Hicks, wallpapermagazine

 

With her 82 years, Sheila Hicks is such a fascinating and inspiring lady. She established herself as one of the most innovative textile artists of the 20th century. But most importantly she radiates so much joy and passion that she still looks like a young girl, ready to play and discover the world full of (textile -) adventures.

 

Sheila Hicks: Foray into Chromatic Zones - The first art installation presented within the Dan Graham Waterloo Sunset Pavilion overlooking Waterloo Bridge and the London Skyline. It includes: scale bundles of coloured fabric that visitors are welcome to sit on and interact with; and mounds of differently and vibrantly coloured fabric that hang from the ceiling. Hayward Gallery Project Space, Southbank, London UK 23 Feb 2015.

Sheila Hicks: Foray into Chromatic Zones: scale bundles of coloured fabric, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London.

 

Berlin Art and Style

Berlin Art and Style

Berlin Art and Style

Wanna know what is the upcoming  – really promising future place to be for Berlin art? It will be the former factory compound at Lehderstrasse 34 in Berlin Weissensee initiated by Jonas Burgert, a german shooting star artist. For the “NGORO NGORO” exhibition this venue invited the public for a few days only at the gallery weekend and hosted an incredibly diverse exhibition of paintings, sculpture, multi media, installations and more. It reminded me of the former “Tacheles” in Berlin – the same inspiring attitude. So here are some pictures to give you an impression:

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Johanna Boccardo

Johanna Boccardo

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Jonas Burgert

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It was a fantastic evening in a great environment with interesting people. Pure inspiration, just how I like it :) I also took a few pics of some visitors, (thank you again)! My favourite is the first one right down below…

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An atmosphere just like in the good old glory Berlin days of the 80 and 90s  – hope there is more to come at the next Berlin gallery weekend 2016!

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