01.09.2017 - 28.01.2018 #ChamberDanceGroup #NoaEshkolArchive #WallCarpetsThe Event of a Thread
Kunsthaus Dresden, GermanyThe Event of a ThreadGlobal Narratives in TextilesTextiles are at the heart of the new ifa touring exhibition, which focuses on questions including: What inherent meanings and messages can be found in fabrics? What is the cultural significance of material? How can they be ‘read’? What can fabrics tell us about their origins, meanings and social roles? Which traditional textile techniques have artists appropriated, abstracted, relocated and brought back to life?In 1965, the Bauhaus artist Anni Albers described “the event of a thread” as something multilinear, without beginning or end: more broadly, it meant the constant possibility of reassessing relations and restructuring connections. This reconfigurative vision is illustrated by the objects, installations and video essays assembled in the exhibition, which disclose the specific qualities of textiles, their contexts and their histories. In this way, the works highlight the complex ways in which “textility” is interwoven in our lives. For example, Vincent Vulsma’s piece Technique (2012)See More
04.02.2017 - 19.03.2017 #NoaEshkolArchiveNoa Eshkol; I Look at the Moon and Think about My Daughter-in-Law
Kunstverein, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsJanuary 21–March 19, 2017 Vleeshal Markt Markt 1, 4331 KG Middelburg, The Netherlands Opening with performances by The Noa Eshkol Chamber Group: January 21, 5pm Workshops with The Noa Eshkol Chamber Group: January 22, 11am & 2pmFebruary 4–March 19 Kunstverein Hazenstraat 28, 1016 SR Amsterdam, The Netherlands Member’s preview & walk-though: February 3, 5pm Film screening: February 4, 4pmWhen looking closely at a hand turning a doorknob, a “rotary movement” is observed, very different from the motion one would witness of jumping jacks, which are considered the result of a “plane movement,” and certainly unlike the perceived effort of a waist circling inside a hula-hoop. How do we define one movement from the next, and how do we preserve them in time, in order perhaps to redo them one after the other?Kunstverein, together with Vleeshal (Middelburg), is excited to present a joint solo exhibition in two parts: ‘I Look at the Moon and Think aboutSee More
22.01.2017 - 19.03.2017 #WallCarpetsNoa Eshkol; I Look at the Moon and Think about My Daughter-in-Law
Vleeshal Markt, Middelburg, The NetherlandsJanuary 21–March 19, 2017 Vleeshal Markt Markt 1, 4331 KG Middelburg, The Netherlands Opening with performances by The Noa Eshkol Chamber Group: January 21, 5pm Workshops with The Noa Eshkol Chamber Group: January 22, 11am & 2pmFebruary 4–March 19 Kunstverein Hazenstraat 28, 1016 SR Amsterdam, The Netherlands Member’s preview & walk-though: February 3, 5pm Film screening: February 4, 4pmExhibition Invite, Robert Milne, Werkplaats Typografie Vleeshal, together with Kunstverein (Amsterdam), is excited to present a joint solo exhibition in two parts: ‘I Look at the Moon and Think about My Daughter-in-law’ – on the work and thinking of contemporary dancer, dance composer, textile artist and theorist Noa Eshkol (IL, 1924–2007).The exhibition at Vleeshal Markt shows a wide range of Noa Eshkol’s wall carpets, from the very first, abstract carpet, appropriately entitled ‘The First Carpet’ (1973) to the more recent ‘Sunset by the Lake’ (1995). Although made in a horizontal position, Eshkol imagined the carpets on the wall –See More
