Tapestry and Fiberart by Vivian Silva.

Tapestry and Fiberart by Vivian Silva.
Above: Brazilian Fiberart, employing the techniques of collage, embroidery, macramé and weaving, some works produced with the mixture of various techniques. All works by Vivian Silva, produced personally in the years 1980-1993. Bellow: hand-embroidered Brazilian Tapestries, produced with direct design on industrial cotton canvas by Vivian Silva, executed during the decade of 1972-1982.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

What is Tapestry? How Tapestry became Fiberart, or Fibersculpture, or Fiberinstallation, as part of a Fiberculture in the twentieth Century?

What is Tapestry? How Tapestry became Fiberart, or Fibersculpture, or Fiberart Installation (or Fiberinstallation), as part of a Fiberart Culture or Fiberculture in the twentieth Century? After more than three decades of daily work with textiles and observation of the evolution of a textile form of art, I have defined each category as follows:

I.0 Tapestry: The name refers to all the flat surface geometric textile work produced to be placed on a wall, and executed manually with many traditional types of threads such as wool & silk, silver & gold, sinthetic or natural, in one and only traditional textile technique such as embroidery or weaving in any type of loom.

So, never mind if the drawings are figurative or abstract, even Le Corbusier Murs de Laine are tapestries, only that they are Mural Tapestries, among others such as the tapestries of any size produced in workshops such as Gobelin, Savonnerie, Aubusson among other famous international ateliers.

2.0 Fiberart:

The name refers to all the textile work placed on a wall, or on the floor, or in space, that is the result of a personal research of a Fiberartist, and executed manually with any kind of textile techniques such as embroidery, fabric collages and weaving, or a mixture of techniques, or any other, new or invented, with the help of any kind of instrument or any kind of structure and material or a mix of materials.

3.0 Fiberart Mural or Fibermural:

The name refers to all the textile work placed on a wall as a result of a personal research of a Fiberartist, executed manually with any kind of textile techniques such as embroidery, fabric collages or weaving, or in a mixture of techniques or any other, with the help of any kind of instrument or any kind of structure and material, or in a mix of materials, with the dimension superior to 3.50 m2.

4.0 Fibersculpture:
The name refers to all the textile spatial work, free-hanging in space or free-standing on the floor, or placed on a wall, as a result of a personal research of a Fiberartist, executed manually in any form and texture and in any kind of textile technique such as embroidery, fabric collages and weaving or in a mixture of techniques produced in any kind of loom or with the help of any kind of artifact or material, or the mix of many materials and techniques.

The Fibersculptures can be classified in 3 types:

4.1-Fibersculpture: Type 01.

Is the result of a personal research of a Fiberartist, a free-standing or free-hanging piece that can support itself without a foreign armature in it, a form that is really unique to fiber (Silva, Vivian, based on Claire Zeisler, 1981, declaration.

4.2-Fibersculpture: Type 02.
Is the result of a personal research of a Fiberartist, a free-standing or free-hanging piece that can support itself with the help of an armature in it, in a form that is not really unique only to Fiber (Silva, Vivian, based on Claire Zeisler, 1981, declaration).

4.3-Fibersculpture: Type 03.
Is the result of a personal research of a Fiberartist, a free-standing piece that can support itself only with an armature in the structure of the textile, in a integrated presentation of a foreign material and the Fiber.

Another concept in the evolution of Fiberart came after Fibersculptures: the Fiberart Installations, that represented the evolution of the Fibersculpture work.

5.0 FIBERART INSTALLATION or FIBERINSTALLATION

Is the result of a personal research of a Fiberartist, a composition with various free-standing or free hangings pieces, showing a set of related works made in any kind of technique and in any kind of material or in a mixture of material(s), related to the Fiberart concept, or material, or technique, in an integrated and coherent presentation.

6.0 FIBERART CULTURE, or FIBERCULTURE.

The denomination Fiberart Culture or Fiberculture includes all types of textiles, such as Tapestry, Fiberart, Fibermural and Fibersculpture and Fiberinstallations of all types, realized with all types of techniques including the mixture of various techniques; realized in any kind of surface including the body, and with any kind of material or mixture of materials, even using material(s) foreign to the Fiberculture, but, in those cases, the work must be formal and intellectually linked to the Fiberart(s) concept(s), and as the result of the creativity and personal research of a Fiberartist.

So, works done with all kinds of the new Digital, Genetic, among other new and innovative technologies, might become a Fiberculture work, and the artist might become a Fiberartist, and the work might be accepted in Fiberculture exibition(s).

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