The contemporary art tapestry Abstraction shows how the art of knotting contributes to contemporary art in a free and generous way. With just one knot, the Abstraction tapestry becomes a kind of tabula rasa — its readings will vary depending on where each viewer stands in relation to interpretation.
The Latin expression tabula rasa alludes to a clean table or slate; that is, without writing. The concept refers to that which lacks past facts or content.
Is there no content in the Abstraction tapestry? The content is in the eye that observes, in the mind that thinks and relates concepts and memories. According to Chevalier, abstraction in art flees from the sign and nurtures the symbol.
It is an abstraction – that of the tapestry – destined to make us feel and imagine. It is a story of everyday life, it starts tabula rasa, and you follow the point -the pixel- you follow the line, alternate, add color, and fill in spaces.
Abstraction — contemporary art tapestry and tabula rasa
“For the African artist, the line is an abstraction, just like the point… The point symbolizes the limit state of the abstraction of the volume, the Center, the Origin, the Focus, the Principle of emanation and the End of return. It designates the creative power and the end of all things ”(Chevalier)
The art of knots serves to manifest simplification through the repetition of a single knot. The knot is a common good, so I could say that it collaborates with contemporary art with a universal and intergenerational reading.
Starting with the clove hitch knot as a simple form, multiplication allows various interpretations to be made. The art of knots collaborates with contemporary art in a free and generous way.
The narrative is formed in pixels, like a photograph. The full and empty of the tapestry in which the opposite and complementary principles are confronted: darkness-light, bottom-up, left-right.
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ABSTRACTION — contemporary art tapestry in white cotton, limited edition available at Malimbus Studio
