chic chic chic, ma Ligne va aller dans un musée en Hollande de mai à septembre !

http://www.museumrijswijk.nl/biennales01NED.html

Hier soir en promenant Titus devant l'église, j'ai trouvé des photos abandonnées sur un banc mouillé.

Une famille avec fillettes à barrettes.

Et 6 fois une jeune femme d'une autre époque, aux yeux transparents.

ça ne sont pas des originaux pourtant, mais des tirages plus récents vue la qualité du papier

 repassant à l'endroit, j'ai retrouvé le papier fragile qui les a laissé glisser sous la pluie

j'ai trouvé sur le net la publicité pour ce médicament

puis, pensant que peut-être la personne reviendrait chercher ce qu'elle a perdu, j'ai protégé les photos

et suis allée les redéposer

avec la chute des feuilles, je découvre une nouvelle installation textile

http://henriettel.canalblog.com/archives/2016/09/18/34337772.html

pour la 1ère fois, un grand héron, qui nous regarde passer

composé avec des bobines négligées au fond de mes placards, le n°150 sera bizarre bizarre

double développement et modules détachés

très distrayante la grue du chantier qu'on regarde tourner depuis la cuisine

stupéfiant comme en reculant vers le salon elle grossit dans le fenestrou de l'entrée

il m'est arrivé de promener Titus sur la plaine derrière le centre bouddhique

et d'entendre y rouler les terribles rugissements des lions captifs

comme dans la savane où on les entend à des kilomètres et où ils rêvent de retourner

celui-ci a réussi à s'échapper mais il n'est pas arrivé bien loin

un article de Haris Metaxa dans le blog de la revue Selvedge

TEXTILE BEAUTIES AND BEASTS

There are some exhibitions that cross the distance that separates definition of what you see from the emotion the art itself gives you, openly, freely, directly. This is the case here. It is textile art and a very rich one indeed but it is also a varied, well installed and very dramatic artistic expression that defies the stereotype that textile art is soft art, always a bit lost in crafts and in sweet womanly creations, a half-lit, half-formed, half-grown universe which cannot address the main questions and worries of “serious”, mainly male, hard contemporary art.

Well, forget your prejudices. Textile art, women making art using the textile medium in its infinite variations and combinations can be as delicate but strong, as soft but rigorous, as stylistically pure but expressive as any “hard” sculpture. You do not need steel, marble or huge formats to talk about life, death, identity, body, nature, poetry, emotional memory or the four elements and our place in the world. You have all of it in this 2 part textile exhibition, successfully showing both the joy (first part, Saint-Cloud) and the pain (second part, Viroflay) our lives are a mixture of. Textile beauties and beasts and you will love them both. There are opposite but balanced elements of the same whole, each one requiring the other in order to exist. Dialectic balance of opposites, in Art like in life and a very good curatorial choice indeed...

All this is the gift of talented, warm-hearted duo of Mother (Sylvie Breton) and Daughter (Marion Breton), committed to intercultural emotional pull and versatility of textile creation, both by contemporary artists and ordinary people alike. People are invited to participate in patchwork creations that are later combined to form large works successfully presented alongside the professionals.

The exhibition is called “regards textiles I et II” (Textile views & II,) http://festivaltextile.blogspot.fr/ the 2nd part just opening on the 3rd of November in Viroflay while the first part opened last month in Saint-Cloud, famous for its international rose festival and now maybe for its colourful, celebratory textile art creation. In other words, go see the happy beauties followed by the happy beasts.

Sylvie and Marion Breton’s installation work, generous participative practice and eclectic creation is one of the writer’s favourites and a breath of fresh air in the sophisticated but quite cold and elitist Parisian art scene.  Well done to them and you shall enjoy it if you happen to come by as I did. You will enjoy it, immensely.

© Haris Metaxa, 2016

The writer, Haris Metaxa, Poet, Cultural Critic http://harismetaxawritingart.blogspot.fr/ and Artist, is a committed and hungry hunter of real and honest artistic emotion and expression. She loves textile art and the work of Sylvie and Marion Breton.

Photos de Marion Breton

 rendez-vous rue Charlot dans le Haut-Marais, vendredi samedi dimanche 2, 3, 4 et 9, 10, 11 décembre