Video: Multi-colored thread spider web. Installations by Gabriel Dawe
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Probably in a past life a Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe, now living in Texas, was a spider. How else to explain those large-scale installations of incredible beauty and complexity that he skillfully weaves from multi-colored threads, turning such seemingly everyday objects into works of art, real masterpieces that you want to look at forever? In Gabriel's hands, the threads acquired a new meaning and purpose. Stringing them on a wooden frame, intertwining different colors with each other, and then arranging these interweaving into patterns, he creates rainbow installations of incredible beauty, riveting attention, making you gasp with delight and exclaim "How does he do it?"
Probably, everything about everything from the master takes a lot of time. First - the idea, then the choice of colors, and the most difficult thing - the arrangement of threads on a wooden frame, careful interweaving of thin "cobwebs" take a lot of effort, time and energy. But exhibitions that are held throughout the United States, as well as in Toronto, Barcelona, Paris and Zurich, more than make up for all the losses, both moral and material.
By the way, despite the fact that Gabriel Dawe lives and works in Texas, he has dual Canadian-Mexican citizenship. In Texas, at the University of Dallas, he also earns a Master of Fine Arts degree.
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