Selection of Artists of Interest - installation ideas
El Anatsui - Ghanaian artist who works with recycled materials. El Anatsui's huge metal sculptures have wowed audiences all over the world with their sheer beauty and creativity. Anatsui makes magnificent tapestries that shimmer and flow like fabric, pushing the frontiers of sculpture and textile art. His ability to transform mundane items into magnificent pieces of art demonstrates his tremendous artistic vision and devotion to environmental consciousness.
TAKE AWAYS: draped installations, not showing hanging method in some installations. Irregular top edge which is interesting. Works to disassociate the work from the wall as it does not bear reference to it. Also like the way it touches the floor and the creases and folds. This artist has also made very large building-covering installations.
Faig Ahmed - The work of Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed is interwoven with complex layers of historical, literary, mystical, and craft. He is best known for surreal, often psychedelic twists to traditional Islamic rugs. His carpets – like optical illusions in textile form – warp, melt, pixelate, unravel, and appear to spill from the wall and onto the floor like intricate pools of liquid. Despite the contemporary interventions, the artist’s textile art is created by skilled practitioners who follow traditional Azerbaijani weaving techniques. Ahmed, who represented Azerbaijan at the Venice Biennale in 2007, presented three new carpet works in his solo show, ‘Pir’ at Sapar Contemporary, New York. Each work is titled after poets and spiritual masters whose works had a lasting influence on the cultural history of Azerbaijan: Shams Tabrizi, Yahya al-Shirvani al-Bakuvi, and Nizami Ganjavi.
TAKE AWAYS: interesting how he has sourced traditional weaving techniques and then disrupted them. the carpets are wall hangings that return partly to carpets as they spill onto the floor. There is movement captured in the distorted weave. The first image with the holes is interesting in how is erodes the density of the rug and reveals the linear structure.
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