The Banff Center - Nadia Pacheco - HILANDO

Blurred boundaries as where the weave ends, begins or is constructed, a frozen moment of the construction of the weave; almost invisible, almost not there, dissappearing and appearing as one moves through out the room. What one finally grasps is retained as memory in the retina appearing outside the room as one leaves the installation room.

The room all white and through out the lines almost visible almost invisible. As you walk they appear and disappear. The lines come out as if the entire room was the loom. And the action that of weaving was in the process of, yet not here. Like frozen in time and vanishing.  To look at the piece was almost impossible, was the room weaving and caught in action. Or was it time vanishing, evaporating and just leaving behind a vanishing memory that we carry outside the room as an imprint that last just a few moments to carry the piece away with us.The invisibility of the piece is interesting and how memory can be carried farther only to dissappear once more, and how a trace can be traced in our bodies as a reaction of our own internal responses and how our bodies try to adapt to ever changing conditions. What was there to see makes a very interesting question if there was hardly anything to see. Maybe the attempt to see makes the piece and not the piece itself.

MOCA - Ball_Nogues Studio

Feathered Edge is an installation by Ball-Nogues Studio; a site-specific project that uses thread, over 21 miles of colored strings configured in catenary curves span the gallery space to form a dynamic environment.Digital technology was used as a tool to conceive this installation in the MOCA PAcific Design Center the strings are magenta, cyan, yellow and black dye.

http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=415

Light passes through the skylight and reaches the floor. A trace that moves and dissappears through out the day. Light is made out of all the colors of the spectrum not only cyan, magenta, yellow and black. A reference perhaps to the light emitting device in which this piece was conceived and developed. 

It is a fun thought your computer screen has melted through the skylight, don´t you think?

Ball Nogues Studio also mentions how the software will give you the map on how to build or construct something but yes its the craft that produces the actual materiality. 

Hands on a light emitting screen or hands on the material; is how things get built. The software will do anything, sometimes the hardest thing is to figure out how to build it. The form with all its mathematical presumption is a natural one given that the strings and gravity react making catenary curves, not much formula but a planet spinning. 

On view at MOCA Pacific Design Center until November 15th. 

MINIARTEXTIL - ITALIA

MiniArTextil is part of Art&Art annual exhibition held in Italy.

This year the exhibition will take place in the coming month of September. Each year a theme is explored curators and artists present the idea transformed or thought upside down. 

I have looked into their archives and found some interesting images which unfortunately cannot pin down to which artist the piece belongs to. I have not found much related to wool as information is a bit scarce in the site but here are some images related to out textile concern.

www.miniartextil.it

I assume that the length of each string is exactly the same and that it is the holding structure which defines how far down each string reaches. Very simple yet the thinking is very refined. Makes me think of cause and effect, interdependence; you pull here and it reacts there. Plan and elevation tighly held as a response to the other. A line or a point?

BOTH

Felted balls of wool make wonderful wall installations, rugs and textile structures.

Wool in its many outcomes; as industrial wool felt makes for structure and the felted wool balls are sewn to it in various ways.

Both's company statement is following the images from which you can see the production challenges of their creative enterprise met fully.






‘Both Textiles’ is a creative design partnership between Ruth Waller & Lee Hewett; their principle aim is to develop work that explores the use of the textural and structural potential of interior textile surfaces, producing bespoke artworks, products and installations that encourage tactile interaction.

All their work uses a mixture of materials such as handmade felt, industrial felt, sprung steel and wood to produce complex, beautifully tactile and richly textured surface structures.

‘Both Textiles’ currently produce a diverse range of work including wall installations, constructed felt rugs, cushions. The majority of their work is produced for use by interior designers, architects as well as supplying retail outlets, galleries and private clients.

All their work is individually created in a studio in Nottinghamshire using range of traditional craft techniques together with computer controlled production processes that like most of our work bridges the gap between past traditions and new technological developments.

www.iloveboth.co.uk

Amanda Levete's CORIAN® super-surfaces installation

Not felt this time. But a textile quality to the use of corian.

www.amandalevetearchitects.com

and here ... the stars !!!

Tokujin Yoshioka

Tornado, Tokujin Yoshioka's installation at Design Miami 2007 was inspired in the natural phenomena the its title states. Transparent straws can be thought as large scale fibers that traced the passing high speed winds. Large scale fibers that do not tangle or a microscopic view of crystals.

www.tokujin.com