Brigitte Bouquin-Sellès. Life in red and white

Detail of Brigitte Bouquin-Sellès's work

 

From 04 Maggio 2018 to 30 Settembre 2018

Venice

Place: Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo

Address: Santa Croce 1992

Times: 10 am – 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4.30 pm)

Responsibles: Chiara Squarcina

Ticket price: full € 8, reduced € 5.50. Free Venetian citizens and residents; children aged from 0 to 5; disabled people with helper; enabled tourist guides and interpreters accompanying groups or individual visitors; for groups of at least 15 people, 1 free entrance (only with prior booking); accompanying teachers of school groups (up to 2 teachers per group); ICOM members; MUVE ordinary partners; Servizio Civile volunteers; MUVE Friend Card holders, holders of “The Cultivist” card (plus three guests)

Telefono per informazioni: +39 041 721798

E-Mail info: mocenigo@fmcvenezia.it

Official site: http://mocenigo.visitmuve.it/


French artist Brigitte Selles (Angers, 1959) is very skilled in weaving and knotting felt, her chosen material, but she does it in her own way. She would like to collect the whole world in one embrace, liberating it from the atrocities and wars that afflict it today. To achieve this, she tries to overcome the barriers that images create by pushing our thoughts beyond the work to discover another space and another time. Visually, the result of her patient knotting is voluptuous and elegant, but above all it is new. It is an innovative way of communicating without canvas, without brushes and without colours. The knot is its structure, as in the best French tradition of the Aubusson or Savonnerie carpets, which narrate stories knotted and woven  by hand. Similarly, Brigitte Selles presents us  today with works of the same intensity but with a completely different conceptual approach: she in fact minimises the complexity of the work by using the essentiality of white, which gives her tapestries an extraordinary force and restores to them the philosophy of thought intact. Loving her native town, Selles follows its famous tradition:  on exhibit in Angers is the largest textile artefact  of all time: the famous Apocalypse of St. John, a biblical story 140 metres long by 6 metres high, entirely woven by hand in the Middle Ages.

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