Questo è un post importante.
It could be my last article on Prague Patchwork Meeting.
Please note, It is not to be disappointed by the show, tutt’altro. The works were appreciated, arranged with taste and criterion, varied in style and perfectly enjoyable, in short, all good as ever.
But it is precisely that "as always" put me in crisis.
Even before I left I was afraid of being in front of the usual script, fine as long as you want, but too often replicated.
So here is the usual route, with the usual sidewalk and the usual two manholes without lids that if we end up with your foot inside you make off the ankle (to be optimistic). Here are the usual steep metal staircase style "The Hill", climbing which sooner or later some will feel bad. Here in the hall the usual themed exhibition arranged on the usual stands of 2011. That's the usual flawless available, but canonical, the works, so everything looks but nothing emerges. That's the usual textile creations, certain admirable workmanship and composition, however pleasant, But never imprudent or impudent. Here again, for good measure, the usual (and unexplained) absence of signs in Prague, affixes, leaflets, or even small signs that mention the Meeting.
Ci tengo a precisare che and John Štěrbová (Deus ex machina della mostra) It goes all my admiration, for its artistic figure in primis, but also to be able to manage for so many years this event patchwork. I remain convinced that the person can hold together and put together a group of quilter It can safely be nominated as President General of the United Nations.
Having said that I would have hoped that, in a moment of courage or madness, she decides to get out of the slide rails of the guaranteed success and risked relations and reputation for beating paths still unexplored.
Perhaps the fault is mine alone instead. Too many things I've seen, and too high now I place the bar of my consideration. Sono un po’ like the traveler who has traveled half the world and it is difficult to prove even wonder, So here I confess my guilt, that of being become insatiable and sofistica, in una parola: flawed.
That said, now you tell you something of the exhibition, a show that still should go to see, at least once. Maybe I advise you to go there with more amenities than I did, because I do not know if all the aficionade del patchwork They are able to hold twelve hours to go and come back twelve hours of night bus; maybe I would be able to suggest the most comfortable transfers.

Only for the sake of the lie, here is what exposes Irena Zemanová, una quilter that he was always struck by the originality of his works. I still remember quite well patchwork with a simple theme, two leaves, but so well it composed chromatically as to be a true work of art.

Tape, legno, metal hooks and wrapping paper. Maybe we can not call it a patchwork, maybe it is not suitable as bedspreads, maybe clean it is a big problem, But in this work, in this outstanding textile planet (or imprisoned) in the frame I see the desire to communicate a message. It is up to the viewer to guess which.

 

From the future to the past, that the traditions of Wallachia Věra Skočková offers us with its tricolor works. only blue, white and red in all its production, for a fabulous representation of his land, mixing dreams and reality (but is there really much difference?), musicians acorns and the effects of slivovka.

After racking their brains to interpret the meaning and value of abstract works, a quarter of an hour together with cheerful works naïf Vera Skočková is always a breath of fresh air (or a sip of slivovka).

 

And while we speak of tradition, here is the Dresden Plate, a block “historical” del patchwork, but this time declined in an alternative way and, I will grant to affirm, very enjoyable.

Ahi ahi ahi, Anna also Králíková was the victim of Bullerbyn Syndrome.
Andiamo con ordine. You remember Pippi Longstocking? That quirky-looking girl and prodigious strength was born from the imagination of Astrid Lindgren, a Swedish writer of children's books. Read It and Weep we could say, as the adventures of Pippi Longstocking were invented there and then by Astrid to entertain his daughter Karin to eight years bedridden with pneumonia.
After the publication of those stories Astrid Lindgren wrote many other works, four of these are set in the village of Bullerby (created taking inspiration from the nearby village of Sevedstorp). The description of bucolic and idyllic Bullerby, a kind of microscopic version of the world Shangri-La imagined by James Hilton, It generated the desire that this minimal utopia of Sweden before the war actually exists, Syndrome precisely Bullerbyn.
In this work of Anna Králíková reflected a desire for serenity, of harmony, Small ancient world. One observation I allow myself, namely that in the stories of Astrid Lindgren, the houses are only three Bullerbyn, but I suppose it is worth the work spirit, with whom Anna wanted to pull in Dresden Plate all Bullerbyn that can not help but dream.

 

Here, instead of today's Sweden, in the works of Bengt Svenningsson, clear, anche se, It was to be expected given the climate, un po’ Original idea.

 

Below marvel at what can happen when creativity and technology come together to create a unique work of its kind.

 

Se, hypothetical event and utterly unrealistic, I happen to find me to be part of a jury (I fear that day and also you should be afraid of you), in a work such as that underlying regalerei undugio without at least a mention.

The photo does not do justice to the quality of implementation. This is not a trivial “Grandmother's Garden”, but of hexagonal effects obtained by overlapping and quilting., with more attention to the color, so that none of them prevails or delete the black depths from which they emerge. Unfortunately, this gives my camera equipment, and to appreciate as befits this work had to be there.

 

Meanwhile, you are reading this post it might happen to experience a bit of appetite, che ne so, peckish right that requires satisfaction. Then take a break and make a snack, The homemade bread is offered by Olga Avdyeyeva.

 

Christine Bünning loves music (It is a talented violinist), but also he loves patchwork. What to do?
Semplice, just combine the two.
We begin by asking ourselves what if Vincent Van Gogh was a musician, and what would be his style, perhaps the one Leoš Janáček, perhaps that of Franz Liszt,

or even to Modest Petrovich Musorgskij, he so tied to his people as it was Van Gogh.

There was still his little very curious work, but you'll find it in the movie of this latest expedition to the ground Bohemian.

 

In Prague they never fail to impress the works of Romana Černá, and this Venetian lagoon is represented with a thousand shades of your favorite color, the blue.

It is not the first time that the sea, e Venezia, They are the subject of the works Romana Černá, and if as far as the sea the reason may be obvious as in the Czech Republic it is not, then it would be perceived as something exotic, Venice could be an attraction of choice to that ancient capital of Prague who shares an undeniable uniqueness.

 

needing no help they said in ancient Rome, however, this does not apply to said Jana Štěrbová, which never repeats itself, and indeed it is always looking for new forms of composition (which is not always the case with some quotatissime quilter).
If you go to take a look at post on past editions of the Prague Patchwork Meeting you will also notice you the versatility of his artistic career.

 

What I like, but what I like the creations of Isabelle Wiessler!
Years ago,, always to Prague, I was struck by his pictorial essentiality, from his way of representing reality and at the same time to draw from the essence transfigure. If you do not believe you go to take a look at this post del 2013.

What is this you see above?
Ice, only ice, but that's what Aletsch, the largest glacier in the Alps, and if you want to lose five minutes to go look for some pictures of Internet. There you'll find those waves, those ripples, those cracks that Isabelle Wiessler has masterfully reported on fabric showing no glacier itself, but his skin, lived, grinzosa, scratched, like that of a living being.

 

In the picture maybe you do not notice, So you'll have to imagine the peculiarities of this work.
The areas that you see white (beh, say light gray) They are not made with the fabric, but with… niente.

Infatti Will Fritsma, with a particular personal technique, It works to remove, obtaining the suspended figures, as an embroidery. It goes without saying that everything can not be defined as a patchwork, but it is equally true that such creations (come, per esempio, those Desedamas) They deserve to be hailed as they would need accommodation and lighting that put emphasis transparencies, il che, As I stated in the hat, Prague has not happened. Sin.

 

After the experimental, here is the traditional, il Dresden Plate, in change Blues, Milena Kankrlíková, always very precise in his compositions.

If you do not believe, take a look at the details.

 

Few experiments for this Bethlehem Star di Danuse Brezinová, only accurate (he succeeded) study of composition, for a happy color combination of warm colors of sunset, and the combination deille geometric shape with sinuous floral motifs of the mess around.

 

The ones you see below are numbers, simple numbers, and if you put the effort you could also count, four columns plus an equal crossbar five, And so on.

Only you can not go on like this.
Blue is the sea, the Mediterranean to be precise, and counts is how many are drowned trying to cross.
I confess I particularly love the films wishing to blatantly convey an uplifting message or complaint, not because I find possibly disagree with the content, but because it happens that these works prove simplistic in their sincere candor. How often use to say, I am a bit’ as the theme “My desk mate” school memory.
Different story for this brilliant idea of ​​Uta Lenk. In fact, she, With very simple elements, He tells a double tragedy, to those who lose their lives at sea and that of those who thinks only in terms of numbers, a calculation of the give and take of human lives. In all honesty I do not really know who to pity more, if those who died at sea or who died in.

 

As usual I like to close my reportage with the work that most surprised me. Maybe it will not be the best of the show (But it is a matter of taste), however, it is that, secondo me, had that something extra, what is termed a quid. Basta poco, a detail, an experiment, a gradient to fall in love with fami, it's love, si sa, It needs no explanation.

 

At the Prague Patchwork Meeting there were many other textile creations, ma, first, I have not photographed all, second, I could not put all the ones I photographed this post. As always you can go and see Flickr to find a few more images of PPM2019.
Nota: this is not my usual stock image, as Flickr asking me € 5.40 per month to insert ourselves more photographs, and so I recorded the new album in a different archive, always on Flickr, but with another recording (lastoffagiusta2019).
In any case all my previous photographs find it increasingly qui.

And while I was there I went room to see what had combined Žižkov, where he held the Festival textilu a quiltu.

This year, no transfers to the extreme outskirts of Prague, this time it was enough to take the 133, and in ten minutes you had arrived. Too bad the shows he was on the third floor of an old technical school now converted into a sports and leisure-cultural center, obviously no elevator. Pazienza, you can not have everything…

Here are much simpler styles and objectives, more understandable, and all in all betray a desire to even try to have fun creating a patchwork.

 

Interesting this garment made by the designer Iveta Nedomová di Brno. She is used to present a series of very original clothes to convince the women in the audience not to fall into the traps of the famous brands, and not to be afraid to show your personality in dress.

 

Viera Sehnoutková made this beautiful peacock, of safe patchwork more interesting exhibition, almeno secondo me.

I confess that I enjoyed some of its technical solutions, so much so that I made my. Thanks Viera! (more images of Flickr)

Suggestion: be sure to make a trip to the fabric store Bolena Tex which is located next to the entrance of the exhibition. You will find there tutto what we “does not exist”.

Since you brought up here Patience, I also like to offer you a short video of my “tour textile” Prague.

 

Bene, Now that my duty I did I can go to give me a ride to Prague. My travel agent, sherpa and photographer and knows what I like, even better than I, therefore…

… Ahoj