Textile - Softcover

Bom Dia Books

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3964360023 ISBN 13: 9783964360021

Publisher: Bom Dia Books, 2023

Synopsis

For more than a decade, works of art made from plant material have been at the center of Olaf Holzapfel’s artistic practice. Since 2009, Holzapfel has been developing a group of works together with weavers from a Wichí family in Gran Chaco, Argentina. His works highlight the connection between humans as settlers and their surrounding landscape and emphasize the relationship between center and periphery, urban and rural. An example of this are the textile works and installations made from the cactus fibre Chaguar and presented in the publication Textile. These textile works were made in a collaborative process between the artist and the Wichí weavers Teresa, Mirta, Dionisia, Noelia, and Luisa Gutiérrez. In their beauty, the works combine contemporary aesthetics with the weavers’ knowledge of the colors and properties of the forest. The publication contains documentational material of Holtzapfel’s work, texts by Olaf Holzapfel, Andrea Elías, and Inka Gressel as well as an interview with the Wichí weavers.

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About the Author

Le travail multifacette d'Olaf Holzapfel (né en 1969 à Görlitz, vit et travaille à Berlin), qui emploie une grande variété de matériaux, allant de la paille aux dessins générés numériquement, explore les interstices entre art et artisanat, en s'intéressant à la fois aux techniques traditionnelles ancestrales des peuples indigènes (tressage, tissage, lattis, etc.) et aux espaces virtuels et physiques, modifiés ou créés par l'occupation humaine, interrogeant ainsi la division entre nature et culture, tradition et modernité.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bom Dia Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3964360023
• ISBN 13: 9783964360021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126