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Installation Massachusetts, Mass MoCA, 2007
Different cloth materials.
Amsterdam-based textile artist Fransje Killaars will create a
new large-scale installation for MASS MoCA’s Hunter Gallery
which serves both as a viewing space and a functional lobby for
the museum’s Hunter Theater. This will be the first US museum
exhibition for the award-winning artist whose work has been showcased
throughout Holland and Europe. Trained as a painter at the Rijksacademie
in Amsterdam, Killaars has been working with textiles since the
1990s. Inspired by many extended visits to India and the vibrant
colors and materials used there in everyday life, the artist creates
vivid, textured environments in fabric that blur the aesthetic
and the functional. Re-thinking how color and space shape our
experience and psychology, the artist has created bedspreads,
wall hangings, and free-standing installations that merge painting,
design and architecture. While working in the tradition of Mark
Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt (who Killaars has assisted
since 1984), the artist blurs the boundaries between art and craft,
re-conceptualizing beds, carpets, curtains, and hammocks to create
unique spaces for contemplation and meditation.
About Fransje Killaars
Fransje Killaars lives and works in Amsterdam. The artist is known
for her site specific installations which are characterized by
their vivid colors and rich textures. “I try to make an
image which you cannot describe and which gives a new experience
and meaning to the given space,” that artist has said of
her work.
Trained as a painter at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Killaars
has been working with textiles since the 1990s. Inspired by many
extended visits to India, and the vibrant colors and materials
used there in everyday life, the artist creates stunning, textured
environments in fabric that blur the aesthetic and the functional.
Re-thinking how color and space shape our experience and psychology,
the artist has created bedspreads, wall hangings, and free-standing
installations that merge painting, design and architecture.
(All photo’s: Courtesy of Gallery De Expeditie) |
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