Tapestries From the Future
Medieval style, but made with an ironic edge using software and machines. That’s the message and rule of Margret Eicher’s work on display through May 17th at the Digital Art Museum in eastern Berlin.
Eicher says her tapestries are “trivial” copies of highly-valued art. “Nothing is real is the title of one of my catalogues, and that seems to me to be a general experience, especially one of perception,” says Eicher, who lives in an old Roman town called Ladenburg in southwestern Germany.
Her impressive wall-sized tapestries certainly are real, and many are large enough to cover a stone wall. The process is where Eicher manipulates her ideas. Muted colors and traditional borders mark her tapestry, and the subjects reflect wealth, power, education, as tapestries always have. In her case, however, the subjects include Desperate Housewives (above), supermodels, Catwoman and an oversized pillow featuring a Kurdish revolutionary (below).
The photos are digitized and worked over until they acquire a painterly optical surface. Eicher then sends the digital files to Belgian weavers equipped with digital looms. These weavers normally produce work for the souvenir industry. Eicher’s works are a bit pricier: The wall-sized Desperate Housewives costs $28,000.
Eicher says her tapestries are “trivial” copies of highly-valued art. “Nothing is real is the title of one of my catalogues, and that seems to me to be a general experience, especially one of perception,” says Eicher, who lives in an old Roman town called Ladenburg in southwestern Germany.
Her impressive wall-sized tapestries certainly are real, and many are large enough to cover a stone wall. The process is where Eicher manipulates her ideas. Muted colors and traditional borders mark her tapestry, and the subjects reflect wealth, power, education, as tapestries always have. In her case, however, the subjects include Desperate Housewives (above), supermodels, Catwoman and an oversized pillow featuring a Kurdish revolutionary (below).
The photos are digitized and worked over until they acquire a painterly optical surface. Eicher then sends the digital files to Belgian weavers equipped with digital looms. These weavers normally produce work for the souvenir industry. Eicher’s works are a bit pricier: The wall-sized Desperate Housewives costs $28,000.
Posted by: Michael Dumiak on May 14, 08 at 03:00 PM PDT
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