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I saw this woman last week on the U-Bahn. Everything about her took me back to the 80s.
It was an older train, she was in the classic straphanger bookworm brace position, she was reading an 80s thriller and wearing the same kind of puffer coat my mom wore in the 80s. Puffer coats came back in style a couple years ago, and I am glad because they are so fun to draw.
Subversive crafts, resurgent regionalism & fake folklore..
Berlin art space Kunstraum Richard Sorge presents part II of the international group show
"Strich & Faden - Heimat, Volkskunst und Travestie"
In 2008, Kunstraum Richard Sorge initiated an ongoing series of large international subversive Arts & Crafts and Neotrad exhibitions, the second of which will take place this May. Titled Strich & Faden, the exhibition project offers subversive travesties of craft and folklore and works that thematize Heimat (heritage), gender & identity in innovative or humorous ways.
The folksy German expression "nach Strich und Faden" means to do something thoroughly, with great artistry and precision, or according to the rules of an art or craft. In contemporary language the term has gained connotations of trickery, deceit and travesty. Travesty is a device present in many works in this show, either as an artistic attitude, or as a subject matter. The participating artists use it to subvert both the traditions of Art & Crafts and our expectations of art.
This new edition of Strich und Faden presents outstanding representatives of the thriving US-american confrontational Arts & Crafts scene - some of which are shown in Germany (or Europe) for the first time - and presents them alongside their (Eastern) European colleagues. Strich und Faden II goes beyond ironic crafting however, also incorporating conceptual and neo-traditional works.
Participating Artists:
Peeter Allik - EST (linocut/lithoprint)
Walter Bruno Brix - DE (embroidery)
Ulrich Diezmann - DE (painting)
Rinaldo Hopf - DE (painting)
Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene - LT (embroidery on scrap metal)
Garth Johnson - USA (recycled collector's plates)
Ai Kijima - USA (quilted collage)
Charles Krafft - USA (sculpture/ceramics)
Nava Lubelski - USA (embroidery)
Natasza Niedziolka - DE (painting)
David Rios Ferreira - USA (gouache painting)
Schalalala Knitting Circle - DE (knitting/social sculpture/net-art)
Johanna Schweizer - NL (fiber sculpture)
Hunter Stabler - USA (paper cutting)
Sztuka Fabryka - BE (street-art/social sculpture)
Tulip Enterprises - NL/DE (over painted vintage porcelain)
Georg Weise - DE (painting)
Closing reception: June 20, 2009, 7 pm
Open: May 1 - June 20, 2009
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, 3 - 7 pm, and by appointment.
Project Site: Strich & Faden Project
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