TEXTILE ART A VENEZIA
Collezione Bortolaso Totaro

27.10.2006 - 8.1.2007
a cura di Luciano Caramel
TEXTILE ART A VENEZIA is an international exhibition of textile art, or Fiber art, a contemporary art form based on the use of textiles, yarns andfibers. These materials lose their functional value and acquire the standingof a genuine creative act, with an entirely new form of autonomy, accorded contemporary value thanks to structures and iconography in constant evolution. In the context of Fiber art, minitextiles habe acquired great importance. The advent of these miniature works, created by artists from all over the world, came about thanks to the inspired insight of theMiniartextil show which was launched in Como 1991, and is now in ist sixteenth year. The Venetian exhibition presents 54 minitextiles from the collection belonging to the creators of Miniartextil – Nazzarena Bortolaso and mimmo Totaro from the Association Arte&Arte – and four large-scale installations. In the works on show, fibers of all kinds are both protagonist and means of expression: from cotton to linen, silk to cooper, wood to glass, gold to plastic, stone to paper, iron to light. The exhibition venue is also highly significant: the museum of Palazzo Mocenigo is dedicated to conservation and research in the field of textile and costume history, and the show is an opportunity to present the new idioms and multifacted expressions of contemporary art alongside some impressive antique pieces.