The Cultural Foundation for the Textile Arts and the SAVARIA MHV Museum Group – the Art Gallery of Szombathely are pleased to present the 7th International Triennial of Textile Arts between 18th June 2021 and 28th of August 2021 appr. on 1400 sq. at the Art Gallery of Szombathely, Hungary.
The Call for entry was open for artists, designers, Art Association members, students of Fine Art and Design Academies from all over the world. We invited artists to submit projects that explore themes, concepts, life situations and phenomena linked to the theme: the FLOW.
This year’s jury accepted 206 pieces of artworks belonging to the above mentioned ideas created in 5 categories: mural artworks, 3D textile, textile design, miniature textile, flag, band.
Our aim is to strengthen the transition between the fine arts and applied arts’ genres so there is not any restrictions on materials and techniques used. The rules allow artworks referring to the attributes of the textile material either in their techniques or expressing thoughts by means of this material. Our foundation’s work is supported by experts of international contemporary artists and art historians.
The focus on caring the heritage of textile art which is continuously resented by the International Triennials of Textile Art in every three years in Szombathely since 1970. We have been committed to the protection and the representation of outstanding values in traditional textile art culture and also to highlight professional extraordinary endeavors.
In case of virtual opening due to pandemic restrictions there will be a finissage on 27th August 2021, Friday at 3.p.m.
https://textileartstriennialhungary.com/
We are very lucky to open the exhibition in public on 18th June 2021 at 3.p.m.
Soon we will publish the invitation card online in english soon on web and facebook page.
The exhibition can be visited wearing a mask.
Please present your immunity certificate and valid photo identification document upon entry.
The Cultural Foundation for the Textile Arts and the SAVARIA MHV MUSEUM, GALLERY SZOMBATHELY organize the 7th Triennial of Textiie Arts at the Art Gallery Szombathely, Hungary
between 18th June 2021 and 28th of August 2021
Theme: . FLOW·
Above the water bends the riverbank
The wind circles and gathers all.
Between the cliffs hovers an empty bag,
A silvery patch in the dark flow.
(Toth Krisztina: Flow)
"If one attempts to study and analyse a Hungarian word or concept they will discover the amazing wealth of our language, the intricate network of expressions and semantic correlations, which also opens up the breath-taking diversity of the world, of life, letting us explore the peculiarities, beauties and imperfections that are manifest in its multitude of phenomena. In the Hungarian language we have one basic word sodor {sho-dor} and its noun form sodras {shod-raash} whose semanticand linguistic clusters, word formations, derivatives and variations exemplify exactly this.
We use this word to denote the technical process af spinning and the natural phenomenon of current/flow, at the core of which concepts is the notion af unifying and uniting, the emergence of a new quality, a harmonious unity through similar characteristies being endowed to different components that are then organised into one entity. During the activity or technique of spinning makers - and only conscious makers - take between their fingers and twist together different components to create something new, something more than the mere sum of the originals: they shape the elemental fibres into a yarn, a bundle. We would most probably need to look into the deep well of the past to understand the etymology and the story of the survival of this process, which embraces the scope of crafting methods closely or more remotely related to spinning: weaving, knitting, twining and needlework.
According to a systematic technical definition, "During spinning we add twist to the fibres and allow it to pass on to the drawn-out staple under our pinching finger. This twist is produced by the spinning of the spindle, and that of the flyer in the case of the spinning wheel and meets the thread in our hand. There are two basic techniques with a range of possible variations. In one the pinching fingers hold the twine, while in the other the twine runs into the source of the fibres between our two hands; this source can be stretched out during spinning akin to rubber. At this point it is decided whether the single yarn will be dense ar etherally light. The more twines between our hands, the looser the final result, and the shorter the drawn-out section, which we keep the twist away from, the sturdier and denser the yarn (worsted or woollen; shart draw and lang draw techniques)." It is an important technical feature that ropes and wire ropes have single- and double-strand versions; in the latter we distinguish between ordinary lay and Lang's lay wire ropes.
Besides the above dry technical description, the concept of twist/current/flow (expressible with the same word in Hungarian: sodor!) and the related cluster of variations convey a multitude of subtle shades of content and meaning - primarily in the context af natural phenomena: that of the slow flow and flux af gaseous and liquid substances. This concept is also the starting point - a yeast if you like - for threads of associations that can take us even further afield. Current/flow is mainly associated with water in its everyday use. The older generation of Hungarians will remember a seminal piece of our film history: Istvan Gaal's legendary film titled Sodrasban. (Current, 1963), which transports us into the current of history, the crucial events of which take us adrift (again expressible with the same word in Hungarian). We are drifting with the flow, any protest would be in vain since we are washed away by the powerful mass of the current (and we might think we will end up in the mainstream, i.e. the prevalent current thought). When someone flies off the handle, they 'step out of their current' in our language, while cigarettes are rolled (sho-dor) nonchalantly and some men twist (sha-dor!) their moustache once in a while when deep in thought. Special objects and products also come to mind: wire netting, wire-cloth, wire rope - all denoted by one and the same word: sodrony, which - you might guess - is a derivative af sho-dor ... and is even used to name an important decorative element in some gems of medieval art, namely in cloisonne enamel.
To sum up, when taking the concept and thematic scope of twist/current/flow, the opportunity opens up not only to apply a technical element and create inventive artworks but also to see the beauty and pain, sharp contrasts and soft concordances manifest in the conflicts and confrontations pulsating between contemporary man and the world (the artist of today and the world) which, translated into material, can be embodied through the works of artists bound to live (drift along) with the unnoticeable or unavoidable currents of our age."
Wehner Tibor