The New Art of the Loom opened in 2013 and travelled to seven venues during 2013, 2014 and 2015. The show was initiated, organized and curated by Dirk Holger. Dirk Holger was born in Germany in 1939. He was a student at the École Nationale d’Art Décoratif d’Aubusson and was the last assistant of Jean Lurçat before the latter’s death in 1966. He designed numerous dreamlike cartoons woven by an Aubusson workshop. He later moved to the United States and lived between Olney, Maryland, and Munich, Germany. He was a tireless advocate for, and witness to, modern tapestry design, organizing exhibitions and lectures on the subject.
Tapestries from the following artists were included in The New Art of the Loom: Christine Altona, Malgorzata Buczek, Thomas Cronenberg, Thoma Ewen, Susan Hart Henegar, Ibolya Hegyi, Barbara Heller, Dirk Holger, Peter Horn, Susan Iverson, William Kentridge, Lialia Kuchma, Ulrika Leander, Jean Lurcat, Susan Maffei, Sayed Mahmoud, Ann Naustdal, Inge Norgaard, Lorna Ramlochansingh, Jon Eric Riis, Burn Soo Song, Miyuki Tatsumi, Joyce Tien, Henriette Zegers ten Horn.
Below is a brochure printed to accompany the exhibition.
Tapestries in The New Art of the Loom
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(left) Malgorzata Buczek-Sledzinska, (right) Inge Norgaard, Waterfall
(left) Christina Altoona (right) Thoma Ewen, Aurora Borealis
(left) Ulrika Leander, Midsummer (right) Barbara Heller, Sarah Rebecca
(left) Lialia Kuchma, Luke 1:35, second half of a diptych
(right) Sayed Mahmoud
(left) Henriette Zegers ten Horn (right) Lorna Ramlochansingh
(left) Jon Eric Riis, Caterpillar and Foliage, detail (right) Ibola Hegyi
(left) Dirk Holger, Wandteppich Bordure
(right) Susan Martin Maffei, View from Mme. Touitou
(left) Peter Horn (right) Burn Soo Song, Hopelessness and Possibility
(left) William Kentridge (Stephens Tapestry Studio, Johannesburg) Porter Series (right) Susan Hart Hemegar
(left) Miyuki Tatsumi, Without Notice (right) Ann Naustdal
(left) Joyce Tien (right) Jean Lurcat, Lunaris