Newsletter European Textile Network (Hannover, 2003)
NETWORK NEWS BATIK 2003 IN GHENT - ART IN MOTION Exhibition from 16.5. - 17.8.03 at the Museum voor Industriële Archéologie en Textiel (MIAT), Minnemeers 9, B-9000 Ghent The international community of batik artists has become active again. After the Hanover "Batik of Change” and the batik exhibition of Saitama City, Japan, both shown in 2002, another exhibition involving 51 artists from 22 countries will be staged in Ghent. Like the 1999 "Batik Gathering Now and Then”, the forthcoming event is organised by ETN member Rita Trefois; it will be accompanied by eight lectures, six workshops and demonstrations. The lectures will be given in English, and will include "More than 30 Years of Batik” by Rudolf Smend; a book presentation by Noel Dyrenforth; and a talk about the inspiration that the Australian environment provides for design and batik, by Susan McLean. - For information: Jacques Coenye, e-mail: batik.2003 .coenye@skynet.be or Rita Trefois, e-mail: batiktrefois @hotmail.com; postal address: Jacques Coenye, Hulbeckstr. 20, B-9850 Nevele; fax: +32-9/ 478262301 previous events, the exhibition stipulates that objects submitted must measure 20x20x20 cm; however, this year a participation fee of € 25 will be levied. We learnt, in late January, that the deadline for submissions expired on 10th January 2003. - Szombathely Képtár, Rákóczi Ferenc u. 12, H-9700 Szombathely T TRIENNIAL OF MINIATURE TEXTILES, HUNGARY The former inti. Biennial of Miniature Textiles will be shown as a triennial exhibition from 26th June to 31st August 2003. As before, the organisers are the Budapest Cultural Foundation of Textile Art in conjunction with the Szombathely Art Gallery, both ETN members. Like MIXED NEWS TECHTEXTIL SYMPOSIUM This symposium will take place in the context of the eponymous fair from 7th to 8th April 2003 at the Frankfurt exhibition centre. It will feature some 90 lectures providing practice-related and practice-oriented contributions to the communication between academics and producers and manufacturers. There will be six thematic areas: 1) Markets and Visions; 2) New Textiles - New Technologies; 3) Smart Textiles; 4) Innovative Building; 5) Mobile Textiles; 6) Personal Security. A "round table” for questions and answers has been planned for the third subject area, “smart textiles”. There will also be a report by the research head office of the EU, on the effects of the 6th EU research control programme on the competitiveness of the textile industry with regard to technological textiles. - Address: Techtextil, Messe Frankfurt GmbH, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, D-60327 Frankfurt/M.; tel: +49-69/75755889; fax: /75756541; www.techtextil.com 2nd grand eurostitch TEXTILE PRINTING CONTEST The results of this textile printing competition will be shown at the "Ideas” Fair in Amsterdam (31.8.-2.9.2003). Organiser is the Eurostitch Magazine. Prizes between 350 € and 750 € (Grand Prize) are issued by different firms. Address: Eurostitch Magazine, tel +31-36/5314505; Fax +31-36/5349003; e-mail: info@eurostitch.com; Website: www.eurostitch.com Deadline: 30 May 2003 2 ETN Newsletter 1/2003 13. MINIARTEXTIL IN C0M0, ITALY This new edition of the Italian Minitextile-art exhibition will again take place from 17.9.- 8.11.2003. Organisers are ETN members Mimmo Totaro and Nazzarena Bartolaso from the Arte & Arte association. The ex hibition will have a catalogue. Address: Arte & Arte, Via Mentana 12,1-22100 Como; tel/fax: +390-31/270592; e-mail: artearte@miniartextil.it Deadline: 15.6.2003 4TM INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE ART EXHIBITION The exhibition "Right and Wrong Sides*’ is scheduled to take place at the M.Zilinskas art gallery in Kaunas/Lithuania from 14.11. -14.12.03. Every two years a competition is organised to choose the participants. Applicants are requested to submit work in all kinds of materials and techniques. The selection is made by an international jury. - Application forms are available from ETN member Lithuanian Artists Association/Kaunas Dept., Rotuses 26, LT-3003 Kaunas, Litauen; e-mail: sniega.s.@mail.lt or vita_geluniene@yahoo.com Deadline: 8th August 2003 MITTELM0DA FASHION AWARD This Italian Fashion competition for European schools is edited again by the Gorizia Fair organisers, the National Chamber of Italian Fashion and the Italian Textile Association. There are six prizes a.o. the Master of Linen Award (2.500 €) the "At the Roots of Creativity Award” (3.000 €). The competition is open to all fashion education institutes in Europe. Address: Mittelmoda, Azienda Fiere Gorizia, Via della Barca 15, 1-34170 Gorizia, Italy, e-mail: info@mittelmoda.com; Website: www.mittelmoda.com Deadline: 31 May 2003 ARTEXTURES 2003 Competition and Exhibition The association France Patchwork is organising a patchwork exhibition with catalogue from 30.11. to 7.12.2003 in the historical church Saint Pierre Le Puellier in Orléans, France. The competition is open to France Patchworkmembers (subscription is 20 €) and has a fee of 38 €. The address: Artextures 2003, Elisabeth Gerrey, 12 rue Pécard, F-91190 Gif s/Yvette Deadline: 1 June 2003 INTERNATIONAL LACE AND EMBROIDERY FORUM The association "Italia Invita” in Rimini/Italy is organising a large lace-makers and embroiderers meeting at the Centro Congressi Europa in Lugofiume Uso, North Rimini, from 9th to 11th May 2003. The programme includes lectures by well-known Italian artists and art historians, for example Wanda Casaril, Gina Morandini, Roberta Orsi Landini and Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols, who will give talks on Italy’s cultural heritage with regard to lacemaking and embroidery. All lectures will be translated into English, French and German. Furthermore, there will be courses in Italian techniques, such as different kinds of bobbin lace and special embroidery techniques (e.g. Sicilian open-work and Assisi embroidery). There will also be slide shows, presentations, "meeting points” on various subjects and excursions to Italian museums with important textile collections, to the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, the Gandini Collection in Modena, the Lace Museum of Rapallo and the Burano Museum in Venice. Participants will also have an opportunity to visit a dealers market and a museum shop during the event. A Romagna evening with dinner and entertainment will complete this extraordinary programme. The event is noteworthy due to the high calibre of the lecturers, the richness of the events on offer, the thoroughness of the organisation and the economically priced participants fees (€410 for all lectures, courses, overnight stays and meals). The organising committee aims to "give Italian and foreign lacemakers, embroiderers, specialists and academics an opportunity to get acquainted with the rich world of Italian embroidery and lace.” - Application address: Italia Invita c/o Adriacongrex, Via Sassonia 30,1-47900 Rimini; tel: +390-541/305838; fax: /305837; e-mail: v.vicenzi@ adriacongrex.it; http://www.italiainvita.it FELT SYMPOSIUM "KREAT0V 2003" The "KreaTov” symposium will take place at the Swedish island of Gotland from 28th July to 1st August 2003. It will comprise courses, lectures, discussion groups, a fashion show and a festive dinner. The well-known lecturers include May Jacobsen- Hvistendahl and Gunilla Paetau Sjöberg. The course organisers will come from all over Scandinavia: Charlotte Buch/DK on Nuno felt; May Jacobsen-Hvistendahl/N on hats and bags; Elina Saar/FIN on lace felt; and Kajsa Maija Thoors/S on imaginative felts. There will be accompanying exhibitions by felt designers at five locations in the town of Visby. - Organisers’ address: Gotlands Läns Hemslöjdsforening, Langska Huset, Kopparviksgatan 7, S-62158 Visby; tel: +46- 498/217160; fax: /211065; e-mail: got.Ians.hemslojdsfore@gotland. mail.telia.com; http://www.hemslojd.org/gotland Application deadline: 30th April 2003 HOLLAND PAPER BIENNIAL 2004-MUSEUM RIJSWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS In the summer of 2004 the fifth Holland Paper Biennial will be organized in the Rijswijk Museum. - The Holland Paper Biennial 2004 has no special theme but wants to show paper art in a pure and varied way. Paper artists who would like to participate in the Holland Paper Biennial 2004 are requested to forward the documentation (slides/photographs/ catalogues) of their latest work and an updated c.v., or any other materials they would like to submit, to the Rijswijk Museum. In September 2003 a jury will make a selection of the contributions and in October/November 2003 the artists will be informed if their work has been selected. For more information about the Rijswijk Museum and the Holland Paper Biennial 2000 and 2002 visit our website www.museumryswyk.nl; Address: Museum Rijswijk, Herenstraat 67, NL-2282 BR Rijswijk Deadline: I September 2003