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Yay Gallery to host Margret Eicher's exhibition

22 January 2015 13:51 (UTC+04:00)
Yay Gallery to host Margret Eicher's exhibition

By Nigar Orujova

Margret Eicher’s solo exhibition will be the first exhibition to be held at the YAY Gallery in 2015.

Eicher is a German conceptual artist specialized in tapestry. She is famous for her enormous tapestries, in which she combines baroque imagery with well-known and familiar images of our information society.

The central motifs of her tapestries relate to current images of photojournalism and advertising from print and digital media. The icons of our modern information society are reproduced in a conceptually well-founded piracy of images, taken from a wide range of sources.

Her art is a kind of symbiosis, a synthesis and a blend of classical traditions and modernity. This quality makes her tapestries extremely relevant today, the Gallery informs.

Her artistic position is not that of a creator, but a creative recipient. Through a selective use of imagery, the artist reproduces a cultural or political statement. ‘Borrowing’ as a cultural and artistic act dates back to the twentieth century with the emergence of collages and montages. In Margret's works, this takes on a critical and political stance.

In her tapestries, the artist adheres to the predominant pillars of tapestry manufacture. Preserving the frame of the central composition, created according to the historical and traditional functional symbols and semantics, Eicher introduces hints of modernity in a canonized form (with stencil).

Margret Eicher's media-tapestries are high-tech industrial products and inexpensive handiworks. In Flanders, the birthplace of court tapestries, the textile industry is very active manufacturing copies of old images to sell as souvenirs on the international markets.

The artist deliberately chooses to replace traditional and expensive tapestries because this falsification of traditions is an example of typical amusement of our time, based on the collective use of intellectual property.

The opening night of the exhibition will be held on January 27 at 7 p.m. It would be open for visitors until March 19.

For further information please contact Farah Alekperli: [email protected] +994 55 490 09 26

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