CONTEMPORARY FIBER ART EXHIBITION

A LARGE VISION ON FIBER ARTS

Author of the project  ‘Asia-Europe’ – contemporary fiber art exhibition is Erny Piret.

The idea of a dialogue in contemporary textile art, is born on the occasion of the Biennial of Kaunas (Lithuania) in 2009.

Curator and organizer of the first and second international traveling exhibition ‘Asia-Europe’: Erny Piret, collaborator of both editions: Kakuko Ishii.

The exhibition ‘Asia-Europe’ presents all kinds of creations in relation with Asian and European countries and their textile techniques.

Vision on Fiber Arts

The exhibition is focused on the innovation of cultural, regional and traditional textile techniques. Essential in the concept is the sculptural aspect, the creative use and innovation in the techniques and materials, the transparency, the monochromatic relative and, in consequence, the soberness in this Art vision. Colours  are only used  to highlight the technique. However, the colour is never a determining factor in the work. The emphasis is on the research and development  of the technology, and in the presentation.

The works are not made in a classic or nostalgic mood, but in a specific  and contemporary vision, the view of the Asiatic and European artists selected for this event.

Fibre Arts is plural, the creation is individual. Influenced by their culture and their experience, the artists presents a diversity in the creation, in a community vision of the ’innovation of the techniques’.