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The touring exhibition Textural Space:
contemporary Japanese textile art opened in April 2001 as
one of the first events of ‘Japan 2001’ and was
an extremely successful project. It has achieved all its
target objectives and has received a huge, appreciative response
from the public with 83,415 visitors during its eight-month
tour of the U.K. The exhibition highlighted the beauty and
skill of Japanese textile artists’ response to the
texturing of space. The breathtaking spectacle of the monumental
work in ‘Textural Space’, assimilating aspects
of architectural space including construction, light, materials
and perspective was made possible through the technical facility
of the artists. The artists brought together a combination
of material understanding and intention that the completed
work would work in harmony with its surrounding space.
"In our textiles units in the
Art Online degree at Curtin University, we direct students
to the ‘textural space’ url as a research point
for a number of artists….. It’s a great website
and really good research point for our students."
Moira Doropoulos,
BA Art (Online) via Open Universities Australia
For more about Textural Space click
here
Image top: Naomi Kobayashi 'Ma 2000'
Image below: Machiko Agano 'Untitled'
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