Traditional craftsmanship meets abstraction: the exhibition Woven Histories. Textiles and Modern Abstraction offers a comprehensive overview of the history of textile art from the early 20th century to the present day. Pioneers of art rediscovered textile art and explored its aesthetic possibilities. The exhibits are presented in chronological order and their development becomes particularly clear in dialog with paintings and sculptures from the same period. The extent to which processing techniques such as weaving, knotting or braiding influenced the aesthetics and aura of the artworks, which sought to dissolve the boundary between fine art and handicrafts, is presented in detail. Over 150 works of art can be seen in the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It runs from April 20 to September 13.
The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The show has already been presented in a modified form in these three museums; the Museum of Modern Art is the fourth and final stop. Here, too, visitors can expect to see works that were not exhibited in the other museums. The artists on show include Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Anni Albers, Gunta Stölzl, Hannah Höch, Ed Rossbach, Gego, Igshaan Adams, Rosemarie Trockel, Andrea Zittel, Diedrick Brackens, Liz Collins and Jeffrey Gibson. Many other artists are represented for the first time in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, including Shan Goshorn, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Ellen Lesperance, Carole Frances Lung and Marilou Schultz.
