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Remember the articles on textile art that covered artists who took part at Balkan Fiber Art and Remade – Art service 2 (Sremski Karlovci & Belgrade, Serbia)? Well, now you can also find them in the 1st issue of Punkt Magazine, publication of Punctum for art experiment, published in Belgrade.

Contemporary textile artist Nena Skoko has already been presented here on Body Pixel. Ivana blogged about Nena’s work within the presentation of the international project Balkan Fiber Art… BFA was here completely reviewed during 2008/09… ‘One Month’ from installation Changes exhibited at Fairy-tales by Nena Skoko

Barcelona is in the spot – Silja Puranen is mastering with her textile art. From 18th March till 20th April, at La Galeria, you can see witty but sever perspectives on human relations of this extraordinary Finnish artist. She’s attracting and attacking at the same time, enjoy it! Stay tuned, hopefully she’s coming at Body [...]

Ivana Podnar is a ready made textile artist who plays with textile and fibre practically her whole life. Although many girls sew clothes for their dolls during the childhood (I have to admit, it’s a rather rare phenomenon nowadays), only few of them stick to sewing for the whole life. Ready made shirt made of [...]

Artservis workshops were initiated as the idea of socially engaged art that stepped out of the white box. To be precise, workshop did not completely abandoned art institutions cause they were taking place in museum or gallery space, but they absorbed street public within its frame. All of a sudden you had sacred art rooms [...]

Fabrics, skirts, dresses, fashion magazines, cut, embroidered, animated, recomposed, combined with most unusual objects and given a completely new meaning are one of the many ways Milos Tomic is going to provoke you. Burdacut by Milos Tomic (c)

During Balkan Fibre Art workshop Isolde Venrooy was doing embroidery on the paper. Actually what she did is a completely reverse of stitching – the pattern is produced by cutting out small pieces of paper. Picture from the newspapers suddenly became a new comb like, fragile structure with greatly different effects…

When thinking about the original principle of life, you think about the journey from beginning to the end, when thinking about the original principle of art, you cannot miss that exact line. Isolde Venrooy follows its different manifestations in her artworks that explore unexpectedness coming out of normality, surprises hidden in habits of perceiving. I. [...]

I’m presenting you Silja Puranen‘s ‘Tatoos’, produced at the Balkan Fiber Art workshop. The idea of her artwork was the contrast of reality and dream, of our own everyday skin and the imagined one, the skin of celebrities seen on TV and in magazines. She used secondhand clothes as the metaphor of unglamorous life and [...]

Our guest blogger Ivana will have a vibrant Autumn, fulfilled with textile and fibre art. After her successful participating and blogging on last year’s textile colony Balkan Fibre Art in Novi Sad, we have new exciting news to share with you.

On the Balkan Fibre Art workshop Michaela Padeva was creating paper artwork ‘Body as a Dress of Soul’, whose form was following the shape of crinoline and pattern was an assemblage of paper cuts and wooden branches. ‘Body as a Dress of Soul’ by Michaela Padeva (c)

Textiles and threads varied through ages, from animal skin and hair to subtle silk skins and finest brocade as symbols of luxury, nobility and aesthetics. The process came to its most subversive outcome in the nylon, fake leather, and other plastic and artificial materials that marked a new era of textile. Little Cat Mountain by [...]

During the Balkan Fibre Art workshop Grazyna Brylewska created an artwork named ‘Happy New Year’. It’s composed of three parts: prints of enlarged details of human skin with spots embroidered with pink thread, relief-like pink structures and small pink elephants. The connection between those parts is actually a metaphor of the irony of life – [...]

First you see attractive shapes and seductive colors, but then you wander where that rosy feeling of sweetness that should come in the arrangement is. Everything is perfectly composed: screens of paper flowers, dolls of plastic ones or printed canvases. And yet, it picks you, and when you come closer, it becomes serious. Grazyna Brylewska: [...]

The title: ‘monday, august 11, 8:45 p.m.’ This is the name of work created by  Gordana Olujic during the workshop.