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'GOLDEN SPLASH', wall piece / tapestry

Creator: Noémi Kiss
Offered by: Marion Friedmann Gallery

Description
This tapestry or wall-piece is created out of a huge old persian rug, gold-plated with imitation gold leaf in the manner of a reverted Splash motif. The artist focuses in her oeuvre on out-of-use rugs, damaged rugs or the unwanted, where she makes her artistic interventions. She is a master in creating an impressive illusion, through overpainting or cutting oriental rugs. Wear and tear - the Design of Time - are the basis for the artwork .
Laboriously 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 or 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. Here aesthetics is to be understood as a state that cannot be produced intentionally. Such surfaces develop slowly and on their own through the human interaction and use. Noemi is a material fetishist and lets collide the grown with the made. She loads banal substances and materials that feel distant to art with a new meaning.

More Information

Customization Options:	This type of piece can be made to order with different rugs (see the forth image in the image library, showing a bespoke piece made to order for a client with a smaller wall). The pieces can also be made using real gold leaf (subject to a higher price).
Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	Austria
Period:	New
Materials:	Old persian rug, plated with imitation gold leaf (composition gold)
Condition:	Excellent.
Creation Date:	2016
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Contemporary, Collectible Design
Incollect Reference #:	283393

Dimensions

W.	86.61 in;	H.	133.86 in;
W.	220 cm;	H.	340 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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