Video: Loom-Hyperbolic - wicker installation for the Biennale in Marrakech
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Biennials take place not only in the largest and richest cities in Europe, Asia and America, but also in even very modest settlements of the Third World. For example, in Marrakech, one of the big cities in Morocco. Here is a German artist and architect for this event Barkow leibinger just created an amazing Loom-Hyperbolic installation.
Having received an order to create an installation for the Biennale in Marrakech, Barkow Leibinger took up the study of the folk arts of Morocco. As a result, he turned his attention to the traditional weaving technique that is common in this North African country. Here is her German and took as a basis for his installation Loom-Hyperbolic.
Commissioned by Barkow Leibinger, Moroccan craftsmen created several kilometers of woolen yarn, which the German artist then used in his installation. He took the ruins of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech as the site for its deployment.
As a result, during the Biennale they were covered with a wicker installation, emphasizing the shapes of these ruins using traditional Moroccan material. The three-dimensional structure of the Loom-Hyperbolic installation symbolizes the loom, which was once the basis of the well-being of hundreds of thousands of Moroccan residents, and by now has almost become archaism … And its products are used mainly as souvenirs for tourists, and not real Moroccan clothes (remember similar motifs in benches made of yarn from Veronica Tsekova).
In addition, such a neighborhood (traditional folk art and religious building) emphasizes the serious relationship between Islam and folk traditions in Morocco, which has become the main original, distinctive culture of this country, its mentality.
The Loom-Hyperbolic installation is designed so that people can walk between its elements (and even directly inside them), examining the creation of Barkow Leibinger, realizing the complexity of the structure of this wicker maze.
This installation will be on display in Marrakech until July 3, 2012.
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