Symposium: Kelim & Modernity

The Austrian Association for the Promotion of Textile Art Research and the Lentos Art Museum Linz present a three-day symposium, which compares the aesthetics of antique Anatolian Kelims with modern art for the first time. The archaic power of ethnological textiles has inspired a number of artists ranging from Matisse and Klee to Sean Scully and Michael Johnson.
The symposium takes place in conjunction with the special exhibition Nomads in the Art Salon – Encounters with Modernity, in which early Anatolian Kelims from the Austrian Prammer Collection are presented together with modern art from the Lentos Art Museum Collection.
Both the Kelim and modern art hold subtle fields of tension, moving between tradition and innovation, design and symbol, graphics and surface, drawing and color. The symposium seeks to bring the apparently so different worlds of "Kelim" and "modern art" closer together and to make these fields of tension visible.

Symposiums-Program

Friday, 3 March 2006, 7 -10 pm
7 pm  Welcome:  Stella Rollig, Lentos | Opening Vizebürgermeister and Kulturreferent Dr. Erich Watzl 
Opening Speech: Ignazio VOK (architect, collector, Padua)

Saturday, 4 March 2006, 8 am - 8 pm Uhr
Experts: Simone Jansen (Dresden), Rémi Labrusse (Amiens), Axel Steinmann (Vienna), Dieter Bogner (Vienna), Heinz Meyer (Aachen) and Marga Persson (Linz)

Sunday, 5 March 2006, 9 am - 6 pm 
Experts Viola Weigel and Werner Brüggemann
Dr. Norbert Prammer shows Kelims of his collection. 

Entrance fee Sat  4.3.: EUR 45,- | Sun., 5.3. EUR 35,- at Foyer
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