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3rd European Textilmuseum St.Gallen 3 May until 29 July 2007 |
Stagnation on a high level In
recent years, the borderlines between the various genres
of textile art such as tapestry, contemporary lace and
embroidery have become blurred. This is less so in
quilt-making. One of the requirements for the 3rd
European Quilt Triennial was that entries had to consist
of at least two layers of material that were visibly
quilted. The Triennial's 36 quilts display high artistic
standards but reveal hardly any new names that would
point to up-and-coming talent. Techniques and materials
seem to have reached their possible limits. Perhaps it is
the requirements of classic quilt technique which result
in "Stagnation on a high level", as the jury
member Beatrijs Sterk has entitled her
contribution to the catalogue of the 3rd European Quilt
Triennial. The following text has been taken from her
paper: |
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| The artists increasingly appear to tackle socially relevant issues; at least three of the four prize winners are cases in point: "Cold Shoulder" by Linda Colsh, to whom we awarded the first prize, draws our attention to a host of hunched elderly women in the streetscape, of whom we are hardly conscious at all. Ursula Rauch, who received the second prize for her work "Lange haben die schwarzen Frauen geschwiegen" (Long have black women been silent) makes us look at the situation in Africa. The two third prizes went to Evi Kirchmair-Krismer and Ursula Gerber-Senger, the former with a critical issue such as the constantly increasing demands made on overtaxed individuals, the latter with a work produced with new materials and techniques which does not exactly strike one as cheerful, either. Perhaps the renunciation of the beautiful, colourful quilt is symptomatic of the mood currently prevalent among the jurors… | As a folk art, patchwork
and quilting have always been art, even though in an
autodidactic manner or carefully passed on from mother to
daughter. Ever since "art" became something
more elevated, the artists among patchworkers and
quilters have been trying to stand out from the majority
of hobbyists. About 30 years ago, this resulted in the
Art Quilt movement in the USA with its Quilt National
competition, which still attracts much attention and
which contrary to its name is now open to entrants from
all over the world… Similar efforts were made in many other countries. In Germany, it was the late lamented Doris Winter from the Berk clothing dynasty (Betty Barclay), who founded the German Quilt Biennial in Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen in 1984, which in 2000 was transformed into the present European Quilt Triennial… |
In Switzerland, a national patchwork competition organised by the Community of Vernier in the Canton of Geneva will take place for the third time. Applications for Patchwork Vernier 2008 will be accepted until 31 May 2007. Curator |
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