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150713: Galerie V&V Andrea MAXA Halmschlager (A) – Border Arabesques
Galerie V&V
Andrea MAXA Halmschlager (A) – Border Arabesques
06.06.2013 – 17.07.2013
Disciplined casual inter-trans-discipline
By Aurelia Jurtschitsch
Jewelry made of textiles, textile object art, special packaging design made of textile material? – An exciting mixture of creativity, meticulousness as well as laissez-faire inspired the current exhibition by the jewellery designer Andrea MAXA Halmschlager.
The artist was inspired by a set of woven bands – a relic from her parents. She draws upon her own story, but this has nothing to do with an inner “reappraisal”, but an actual physical reconditioning of the material: a parallel stringing together, i.e. a meticulous welding of borders, each give or take one centimetre in width. It started with rose motives, but soon her repertoire “exploded” – both in motives as well as colours, on the front and the backside and the material mix with tulle. At first there were small tubes threaded onto necklaces or placed on a belt as an eye-catcher, but then a decisive impulse came from a different source: the arabesque shape, which Halmschlager acquired from her colleague Ute Neuber.
In her most recent works, she presents a five-part set designed in this concrete ornamental format. These five individual pieces can be combined individually or with one another. Each one of these arabesques has a title, has a kind of certificate and only waits to inflame the fantasy of its usage. As a necklace, as a pendant on a pearl necklace, as an extravagant headdress, as…
Galerie V&V
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150713
Galerie V&V
1010 Wien, Bauernmarkt 19
Tel: +43 1 5356334, Fax: +43 1 5356334
Email: vundv@aon.at
http://www.galerievundv.com/
Öffnungszeiten: Mi - Do 15-19, Fr 12-19, Sa 12-18 h
Galerie V&V
1010 Wien, Bauernmarkt 19
Tel: +43 1 5356334, Fax: +43 1 5356334
Email: vundv@aon.at
http://www.galerievundv.com/
Öffnungszeiten: Mi - Do 15-19, Fr 12-19, Sa 12-18 h