Hangzhou Triennial Of Fiber Art

Ritzi Jacobi

Born 1941 in Bucharest, Romania; 1960-66 studies Textile at the Art Institute in Bucharest; since 1970 lives in Germany.

1969-1995 participation at 11 Biennales Textile et art contemporain,Lausanne, Switzerland

1976    Staedtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

1978 Museum Bellerive Zuerich, Switzerland

1979 Soft Art, Kunsthaus Zuerich, Switzerland

1980 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

1981 Detroit Institute of Arts ( in collaboration with P.Jacobi ), USA

         Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA

   County Museum Los Angeles, USA

1984 Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

1994 The Impulse to Abstract, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Texas, USA

1995 Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany

1999    Daegu Textile Art, South Korea

2003 Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany

2005    Transformations, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

2006 Beyond Weaving, Gallery Browngrotta, Wilton, USA

Transylvania VI

Transylvania VI is the last piece of a series of works with the same title. They were made accomplished in the 1960´s and early 1970´s. Significant for that period was the favoured use of self designed textile cables in various lengths and thicknesses which were embedded in a simultaneously woven homogeneous surface (untreated goat hair and horse hair ). My vivid interest was to create a big scale work with opulence, underlining the interaction between fragments of extensive flowing and distracted parts, for example, fringed edges and the restrained colouration in design. Variations of density and transparency, lightness and darkness play a key role in the expression of a never ending landscape. Beyond the knowledge of established weaving techniques, my general working process has always been guided by other disciplines, such as drawing and sculpture, which gave me a new perception of Fibre Art.

Sketch - Sketch for Textile - Drawing 【是否是作品】

The three drawings are merely artist´s impressions with autonomous character which however sometimes lead to visualisation of my textile works.