Yesterday I made a list with the exhibitions I need to visit and it turned out I have 9 on my list. It can look overwhelming for those who are not a fan of art, but for me this is true gift and would not miss these for anything in the world. So today I started my journey and visited 3 of them and the experience I came home with is priceless. I'm planning to share it with you, so no worries.
The first exhibition I visited was a textile exhibition, but not the usual one. The flyer said scarf technique and I've never seen anything like this so far.
This was what I saw when I stepped into the gallery and I my first thought was, "I'm going to see a lot of repetitive artworks", but was wrong. Very wrong.
The artist's name is Mária Nyárudvari and the title of the exhibition was Autumn's Anatomy. I know, it's strange, but you'll see why the title.
First a piano for @mipiano 😆(she's going to mute me for tagging her so often).
I was undecided whether to let you know about how these pieces are made, or let you see a few artworks first, but I think I'm going to go with the latter.
What you see here are two scarves in some elegant boxes, perfect for being gifted to someone who likes these scarves. That's your first thought most likely and I'll let you believe these are just scarves, for now.
None of the paintings had a title, which seemed right as all the artwork were about what the title of the exhibition said, Autumn's anatomy, or the anatomy of autumn, as you like.
As you can see, it can seem repetitive, but it's not.
And this is when the artist won me over. When I saw these colors, I knew I'm going to ask for the price list. Not because I can afford to buy another painting now, but because I wanted to be sure I can't buy it 😆 Strange, isn't it? Well, you can't buy it all. Sadly 😒
And it's time to tell you what you're seeing here. After i saw all the exhibits and took photos of everything, I went to the gallery curator and asked her how these paintings are made.
She told me that all of the paintings are painted on white silk. Original silk, not some kind of cheap copy. First the artist makes a drawing, a sketch of the idea she wants to paint, then comes the paint, layer by layer.
Now back to the scarves, I was told it takes 3 and a half day to complete a scarf of normal size. Now you can imagine the price and the value of such a scarf and that these are not exactly for wearing as they are extremely delicate and it would break my heart to damage them with a zipper or coat. Scroll up and have a look at the one on the left. That would be my pick.
It's not a secret, I've mentioned several times in my posts that I love autumn colors the most, especially this rusty brown and its shades, down till orange and those paintings that contain several of these shades are my favorites. I love this painting too as that pale blue is the perfect background for the brown, frosty looking leaves.
I didn't want to give you any close-up photos to see the details, but it's time now. look at how soft the texture of the silk is. You don't see the roughness of the usual canvas and what was really interesting was the shininess of the silk.
Unfortunately the camera can't give back everything exactly as you see it in person, but I tried my best.
If you scroll back and have a look at the paintings, knowing what you know now, you'll see why is the topic of the exhibition Autumn's anatomy. What you see here are autumn plants, leaves during autumn and even fragments, skeletons of leaves.
What I saw today had a huge impact on me and made me think of how small we are. I visited this textile exhibition, a photo exhibition that is coming tomorrow and a sculpture exhibition and literally blew my mind. I'm just laughing how so many are calling themselves photographers, artists and so on, while photographing weed at the side of the road and posting blurry photos that you can't even see what it is (no offense) and have no idea what real photography or art is. I prefer not to call myself anything and do my best to be better than I was yesterday, knowing I'll never be 0.1% as good as these people. This is where you see the greatness of art.
Stay tuned as tomorrow I'm going to post about the photo exhibition and it's exceptional, I can guarantee you that.
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