Gallery 3 & 4
As you may tell from my posts so far the Museum and Lab at
Textiel Museum Tilburg are interwoven. They share the same vision to explore
experiment, stimulate and innovate as true pioneers in developing new textiles.
This is a truly unique asset and one to see as best practice.
Past, present, theory, practice creativity and expertise
converge to create strong futures.
By offering the space, time,
means and materials to fuel further advances in craftsmanship, we look forward
to keeping this heritage alive well into the future’
The Textiel lab produces an annual year book to share the
projects, commissions and successes. When I first looked at these in the
library I was amazed by the breadth of their projects and their passion and
fearlessness. The wish to succeed and push limits. The focus on the potential
for the textiles industry and what they can achieve through collaborative
spirit and trying, failing and trying and succeeding is vast.
To then move into Gallery’s 3 & 4 and see the year books
come to life was a privilege. The felt pieces by Claudy Jongstra that I had
just seen photographs of were hung in front of me. The innovative Droog design group
had used design and fine art constructs to create new works and maximise the
potential of the materials.
Looking through the Gallery exemplified the
innovative vision and openness of the museum’s director and the Mondrian Trust
who funded many of these commissions. The exhibition was readable by those new
to textiles & textile art and its potential as well as those who were already
inducted. The supporting videos and bilingual text supported this further.
There were many pieces that I loved. The levels of acceptability and ease of
reading the pieces added to the exhibitions value and openness to the general
public. Most will find table linen easy to access, so with the artists
reinterpretation of this through creating a modular cloth to add humour to
place settings in unusual colours or weave patterns made through using music
cards instead of jacquard cards, discussions begin and the textiles have a new
life and narrative.
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