Roy Hamilton, Sr. Curator for Asian and Pacific Collections, UCLA Fowler Museum
Saturday, April 7, 201210:45 AM
UCLA Fowler Museum
The Textile Museum Associates of Southern California presents a special gallery tour of Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti By Afghan Women at the UCLA Fowler Museum
From 1971 to 1994, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) embarked on a series of projects with Afghan embroiderers, creating monumental pieces that would become some of the artist’s most iconic works. Working first in Kabul in the 1970s and then in refugee camps in Pakistan after the 1979 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Afghan women embroidered works based on Boetti’s templates that include: colorful grids of letters that spell out phrases (such as “Order and Disorder”); Mappe (maps), wall-sized world maps with countries filled-in with the colors and symbols of their flags; and Tutto (everything), large-scale works entirely filled with intricately embroidered shapes representing diverse objects—sunglasses, a Hindu goddess, a protractor, twins, and more. The exhibition features twenty-nine works by Boetti along with documentary photographs of the Afghan embroiderers taken in 1990 at Boetti’s request by Randi Malkin Steinberger, as well as examples of the traditional styles of embroidery that might have played a role in stimulating Boetti's best-known works.
A second tour of "Second Skins: Painted Barkcloth from Papua New Guinea and Central Africa," led by curator Gemma Rodrigues, will be held simultaneously, beginning promptly at 11 a.m.
Space is limited and registration is required. Please register by Thursday, April 5, 2012 to cherihunter@earthlink.net.
For more information, please visit the Textiles Museum Associates of Southern California, Inc.
ADMISSION:TMA/SC Members: Gratis; Non-TMA/SC Members: $10
www.tmasc.org/news_events_tmasc.htm
Sponsor(s): Fowler Museum at UCLA, Textiles Museum Association of Southern California, Inc