Currently showing at the Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre as part of World of Threads Festival in Oakville Ontario, this is the largest and most colourful piece that I have yet seen by this Toronto maker.
surface - shadow
holes as marks
rigid - pliable
The exhibit is named De Rerum Natura (On The Nature of Things) and was curated by Gareth Bate who describes the exhibit as "a highly eccentric show that evokes the collection of a mad 18th century naturalist".
That cabinet of curiosity idea is very apt. When I entered the exhibit, it did remind me of visits to European museums that hold Victorian era collections.
simple - complex
tender - violent
inner - surface
youth - age
colour - greyness
human touch-machine pressed
Lotta's ordering of the messiness of nature reminds one of how we collect.
human - nature
order - nature
process - object
art - life
10 comments:
fascinating!
so many people looking, gathering, making sense; thanks for this post Judy
mmmmmmmm.
Thank you for posting these photos since we cannot see them for ourselves. I really did think that the first photo was of a butterfly wing.
Judy, so nice to meet you in front of your fabulous spiral! I'm the one that told you that I'm friends with Penny B. My blog is http://artfuldreamer.blogspot.com. You may even have already come to visit once or twice. I stitch, but right now much smaller pieces, with the addition of beads. LOL! The exhibits I experienced yesterday are pulling me back to my cloth and needle roots. I wish I had time to do both!!!
BTW, you photographed two of my favourite pieces at Sybil's place. All very interesting, but the Kozo one was absolutely facinating!
very cool pieces
living atop a mountain in a very remote area, i drink in posts like these, so thank you. the simplicity centers and calms, the implementation or application, the creativity of conveyance and expression, that stretches and opens.
said another way (since i don't know how to delete my previous comment), my response to this post and this art is:
calmed - excited
centered - opened
simple - complex
minimal - elaborate
human - nature (with and without the dash)
What great highlights and reflections from the show! Thank you for including my piece.
thanks for the "tour" !
(mmmmm : did a workshop with Marjolein Dallinga last year, fascinating !!!)
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