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'FOAM ON RUG' - wallpiece, tapestry, artwork

Creator: Noémi Kiss
Offered by: Marion Friedmann Gallery

Description
'FOAM ON RUG', is an overpainted salvaged oriental style rug. The artist Noemi Kiss overlays an old salvaged rug with painted foam.

Laborious woven or knotted by hand, oriental rugs tell stories, interwoven in the piece. The ornaments have strong meanings. A rug can be for decorative furnishing, a symbol for paradise, and a place holder for prayer. The artist uses this strong symbolism and marries it with the interventions of her choice, like cutting, overpainting, or gilding.

During its lifetime a rug is traded, bought, possibly resold, used over decades by various people, layering the piece with another history of usage. Foot worn carpets are witnesses of their past. One cannot simply copy them. Wear and tear, the 'Design of Time' of the rug are the basis for the artwork. Here the aesthetics are to be understood as a state of the art that cannot be produced intentionally. Such surfaces develop slowly and on their own - through human interaction and use. Noemi is a material fetishist and let’s collide the grown with the made. She loads banal substances and materials that feel distant to art with a new meaning. The piece is an art-piece from a body of work, where the artist deliberately uses old, worn-out, sometimes damaged rugs. This is her concept. The design of time is visible.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	Austria
Period:	New
Materials:	overpainted salvaged oriental rug (handknotted Bidjar), acrylic paint
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	2021
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Contemporary, Collectible Design
Patterns:	Abstract, Contemporary/Modern
Incollect Reference #:	438138

Dimensions

W.	62.2 in;	H.	46.46 in;
W.	158 cm;	H.	118 cm;

Message from Seller:

Marion Friedmann Gallery launched in 2011 in London and merges a penchant for the avant-garde with a passion to celebrate and promote the most remarkable emerging and established contemporary designers. The gallery represents eclectic & eccentric collectible design with a special interest in`Materiality ́as well as in pieces with a positive environmental message. The objects range from furniture, lighting, objets d`art, jewelry and sculpture. We develop bespoke and special commissions.

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