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CONTEMPORARY NOMADS COLLECTION
AMIR ART COLLECTION CONTEMPORARY RUG DESIGN COLLAB
CONTEMPORARY NOMADS COLLECTION
AMIR ART COLLECTION CONTEMPORARY RUG DESIGN COLLAB 5 October 2023 - 14 February 2024Contemporary Nomads Collection presents the rug Designs by Firouz FarmanFarmaian following the aRTIST'S parTIcipaTIon in the 59th Biennale di Venezia - developed and produced in collaboration with high-end rug and texTIle producers, Amir Art Collection based in Varese, Italy.
The collection comprises three UNIQUE UNITS AND THEIR limited edITIon series - The INITIAL Talisman TaTToo, WORLD AS TENT, and THE Shyrdak SERIES.
These collections transform techniques and derive semiotics from the nomadic heritage of North Africa and Central Asia, blurring the borders between craft, design, tradition, and contemporary practice.
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GATES OF TURAN
59th BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
VIDEO WALKTHROUGH
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DEDICATION TO THE SOVEREIGN SUN LIVE IN PATMOS
Ela Wine Bar 08-22 / 24´
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Banner of the Unbannished ( Original Proof Panel ), 2019
Majorelle Blue, Sienna Pigment, Acrylic, Acrylic Marker on Berber Tent Fabric - 230 x 130cmBANNERS OF THE UNBANISHED
UD Magazine, Cheryl Gatward, FEB 2020
"THE BANNERS trigger the necessary question of a return to the source. If ecology of the planet is the restoration of a natural world order, then ecology of the spirit is a restoration of a link to our millenary archaic selves. It stems from an urge to create a Wagnerian ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, a total work of art. To illuminate unseen stories, traces, through a Tolstoyan sense of time, weaving its wheels. Unwinding into unknown paths, tribal entanglement knotting Moroccan and Persian millenary cultures in a sufi-like dance of sacred fabrics and post-tribal symbols sourced in-between the Atlas mountains and the Sahara desert. To use air and space, shadow and light, sound and movement to free an ensemble of imaginary banners under the iconic dome of the Royal Theatre of Marrakech. A site specific intervention mirroring Berber and Persian Bakhtiari cosmogonies held together by the baraka of raw camel wool, nomad tent elements turned into work of art. A circle of contemplation and meditation, a haven where different cultures can meet and reflect.
As in recent explorations into post-tribalism such as in Poetry of the Tribe ( Salomon Arts & Leonard Tourné Gallery - Tribeca, NYC / Oct-Nov 2018 ) and into the idea of Trace with Permanence of Trace ( We R the Nomads & Space 50 - Chelsea, London / March - May 2019 ), the banners works to build on a universal nomadic quality. Not unlike works of Corean artist Kimsooja or Colombian artist Oscar Murillo it attends to cross cultural thematics such as identity, memory and exile. The exhibition presents itself as a synthesis with a look set upon the uncertain path forward. The balance between archaic spirit and tech-age philosophies. The juncture of cultures crossing and creating new tribes. The unicity of our planet. Contemporary revolutions. "
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