Playful Vision: Nuno’s Textile Imaginings

This Kaunas exhibition showcases textiles from Nuno, a remarkable Tokyo-based design and production studio led by artistic director and co-founder Reiko Sudo. Nuno (meaning “fabric” in Japanese) integrates traditional techniques and aesthetics with contemporary technologies and materials to create some of the most innovative weaving in the world. Imaginative vision is the key here: using everything from stainless steel and milk protein to bamboo and bird feathers, as well as unorthodox finishing methods like burning and chemical melting or appropriating the latest industrial processes while also fostering centuries-old craftsmanship, Nuno…

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1959

Peru

ÁXIMO LAURA, born in Peru in 1959, has woven in his father’s workshop since he was 9 years of age, attending school in part time. While studying Spanish literature, he discovered that weaving can be an expressive art form when he met Italian textile artist – Helvecia Kela Cremaschi, who had her workshop in Lima at that time. He has devoted himself to this form of expression ever since, clearly showing his Andean roots and cosmic world view. He hopes to contribute to the renewal of this rich old culture that is still…

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USA

ABOUT FACE

born in 1942, studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and received her MA in Art and Design in 1973. From 1976 to date she has worked as a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts in Oakland, USA. Lia Cook has been represented in many exhibitions, to name but a few: Lausanne Biennial (1989 and 1992), Kyoto International Textile Competition (1989 and 1992), Craft Today USA (travelling exhibition, 1992); “Design Life Now, National Design Triennial”, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 2006; “From Lausanne to Beijing” International Fiber Art Biennial, Gold…

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EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHT: ART LAB

The Textile Artists’ Guild organize the International satellite project of Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE’11 – EXPERIMENTS WITH LIGHT: ART LAB. The brand new Kaunas arena’ media centre will become the place for international exhibition which exhibits will be installed in the darkness and lightened by black light bulbs which spotlight luminescent details of the art pieces and thus enrich the aesthetic experiences of the visitors by mystical effects and unexpected approaches. Since 2006 several editions of Black Light exhibition, organised by the Textile Artists’ Guild, were held in Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Check…

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Keith A. Buchholz

Curator

In the time it took to organize this show, major shifts occurred – shifts in location, works to be shown, participants, activities, and ideas of what Fluxus was, is , and could be. A call for works was put out to the “Eternal Network” of Artists, Non-Artists, Poets, Flux people, and Friends to interpret the idea of Fluxus, and in doing so, honor the legacy of George Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus, who was born in Kaunas and emigrated with his family to the United States.

The premise…

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Monika Järg

The Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE is the audience magnet all over Europe and has set a series of visitor records. It has become a trendsetter for authors as well as the audience all over the world. The Biennial is accompanied by satellite projects in various galleries and urban space of Kaunas, the themes of which are associated to the main concept of the event. One of the invited satellite projects is the exhibition of contemporary Estonian (textile) art in Gallery Meno Parkas, curated by textile designer and artist Monika Järg, and organised…

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