CAAT – Argentine Center for Textile Art
—Silvia Piza-Tandlich, translation
12th Tapestry Salon—Silvia Piza-Tandlich, translation
Textile Tourism: Argentine Center for Textile Art (CAAT)
Buenos Aires, Argentina: A city that goes to sleep at 6:00am and awakens by 3:00pm, at which time you can visit the Argentine Center for Textile Art (CAAT).
CAAT: Tramemos journal.
*“Let’s Weave” is a weak translation since the Spanish verb tramar means, “to plot” and “to warp” at the same time.
CONTACT:
Address Viamonte 1728 2º E (CP1055). Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone (+54 11) 4371-7581
Website http://www.caat.org.ar
Hours Monday through Friday, 3:00 to 6:00pm
Textile jewelry design is gaining popularity worldwide, and there are LatinAmerican artists who take it to levels beyond our wildest imagination. Take Luis Acosta, for example: WOW!
Luis Acosta: bracelet
Luis Acosta is originally from Córdoba, Argentina and lives in Holland. He studied weaving techniques at the Textile Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1988, but later committed his weft designs to paper. He made his first necklace in 1996 and, although it looked quite different from his present designs, it too, used the base of a relatively simple basic shape as starting point.
What he likes best about working with paper, is the infinite possibilities of combining colors and the different ways of working with paper sheets or paper threads.
When asked where he gets his inspiration, he answers:
Luis Acosta: brooch
—”From simple forms I see daily everywhere. I develop a technique, draw a shape, and repeat, cut, and sew it.”
Luis Acosta: necklace
He has participated in group and individual exhibitions in most European countries, Argentina, USA, Japan and South Korea. There are works by Luis Acosta at the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, USA), Costume Museum (Buenos Aires, RA), Centre for the Arts Utrecht, The Textile Museum in Tilburg and in private collections in Argentina, Finland, India, Norway, Spain, Venezuela, USA and Netherlands.
Necklace by Luis Acosta
Luis is one of the semifinalist recipients of Contemporary Art and Craft Awards in Barcelona. Finalists will be announced during the ArtFad award giving ceremony on July 5, 2011. These awards are part of FadFest—an event organized by FAD (Fostering Arts & Design organization). See more at http://www.bellevuearts.org/exhibitions/current/think_twice/index.html
Luis Acosta: necklace
—Silvia Piza-Tandlich, translation
Gabi Nirino is presently in France for her lecture, which is summarized below.
Gabi working on the ships base.
Gabriela ‘Gabi’ Nirino specializes in Textile Design and Industrial Engineering. She teaches at two major universities in Buenos Aires, Argentina: the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and the Lanús University (UNLA).
Gabi is a very enthusiastic participant in the 2nd “RE” Biennial: “REcycle, REgeneration, REnovation, REcuperation”, which is being held at the Lanús National University Campus in Buenos Aires from April 4 through May 27, 2011.
Gabi and her students have presented a ship for which they used natural dyes and REcycled materials.
The ship is large enough to hold an orchestra.
Next stop on the agenda is the La Rochelle Symposium on Natural Dyes in France, where Gabriela Nirino is an expositor right now.
Here are photos of the entire ship:
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