It almost seems like a tongue-twister and actually I rarely manage to correctly pronounce the name chosen for the local exhibition devoted to the contemporary textile art, now at the 16th edition. This year there are even 11 locations in the town of Como dedicated to the exhibition.
Certainly the richest installment is inside the ex-church of San Francesco where next to some pretty suggestive pieces such as the army of silk frogs coming down from a wall of the right aisle, there’s a section dedicated to the Net Art cured by Domenico Quaranta in which the threads composing the virtual fabrics are generated by software algorithms.
Not by chance the term in_rete (networked) is part of the title of the exhibition.
The apse hosts a suspended metal structure on which are placed 54 little works, minitessili, among which you can notice the Protocolli di Rete (network protocols), a globe made with bamboo by Ilaria Giussani, a friend working at the Museo della Seta recently awarded with the Premio Arte 2006.
At the museum Ilaria allowed me to take a picture of the nice installment Food for the Spirit by Anna Moro-Lin & Verdeaqua you can see below. The mise en place on the table is really creative and original in my opinion, while Ilaria prefers the works of Marie Rose Lortet, also exposed in the museum, since they’re technically superior.
Pretty imposing is the work of Akio Hamatani at la tessitura. It almost seems like a hull of a big ship suspended over the water… could it be some sort of ark ready to sail to take away all the beasts running around Como?
I don’t want to say anything more to leave you with enough curiosity to visit the exhibition.
Even too often the people of Como seem to ignore this kind of events in our city and due to the factor “I can go there whenever I want” they end up procrastinating the visit until they loose the opportunity to actually do it. There’s time until November 12.
After this brilliant link between textile art and digital graphics the next time I’ll get the chance to explain what a texture is I’ll certainly use the pixel weaving metaphor!