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'PAINTSTROKE' - wall-hanging - tapestry -wall art

Creator: Noémi Kiss
Offered by: Marion Friedmann Gallery

Description
'PAINTSTROKE', is a new piece by the artist Noemi Kiss, where she cuts out a salvaged oriental-style rug and overlays it with her artistic interventions.
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, and a placeholder 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.
Born in Székelykeresztúr/ Transylvania, Romania, 1969. Noemi holds a Master in Architecture from the Technical University of Vienna and a Master in Philosophy from the Vienna University of Humanities. In 2011 she founded of the Viennese fashion label WIENER FETZEN. Between 2011-2013 she collaborated as the artist-Duo KISS THE REICHL. Since 2013 – she has been working on her own, as an artist on the interface between, art, design and architecture.

An architect and philosopher Kiss maneuvers with a range of materials. She re-incarnates old Persian rugs and alters them into new surprising forms, implementing new functions and structures – they can become, for instance, a table. A rug with its ornaments and patterns is loaded with strong symbolism. Let it be cut out or painted the original meaning gets a new angle. New silhouettes emerge from the surface in a strong livelihood. The insects appearing on the rugs are similarly obnoxious as worn-off rugs. Kiss provokes our senses in marrying the precious rug with the profane construction material concrete; the hard and the soft material clash and transgress into a new object.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	Austria
Period:	New
Materials:	salvaged, repurposed, cut-out and overpainted oriental style rug.
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	2021
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Contemporary, Collectible Design
Patterns:	Abstract, Contemporary/Modern, Handmade
Incollect Reference #:	504375

Dimensions

W.	82.68 in;	H.	118.11 in;
W.	210 cm;	H.	300 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.