The history of the textile manufacturing
Weißwasser not only in his studio, but also outside in the garden of artist Eberhard Peters is currently working on new works. Now the Weißwasseraner involved in a new exhibition which links about the connection between art and craft, past and present. "First and foremost it is about the Ennepe-Ruhr region and the textile manufacturing region of the Neisse. The exhibition combines the historical and artistic in an unconventional presentation, "said Eberhard Peters.
Eberhard Peters currently works for the exhibition in a linen weaver. Photo: Kurtas/aku1
"In the Lausitz Zgorzelec Museum, located on the old bridge will be illuminated with selected historical references in the conflict of textiles and textile manufacturing. The bridging employment with the textile history of Lusatia, together with the adjacent regions of Lower Silesia and Northern Bohemia and the region Ennepe-Ruhr, to the ways of the traders and the traces of the cloth to show their diversity and links to "make visible, said Ramona Faltin, under other things, the exhibition catalog prepared.
The four buildings of the exhibition in Görlitz and Zgorzelec tension already a first arc of the late Gothic architectural history to the present, and thus reflect the project "à la Jacquard" is also reflected at the level of interconnected exhibition venues. So on the German side, as bourgeois private chapel built in Anne's Chapel and the original trading house on Untermarkt 25 are available on the Polish side of the Dom Kultury (formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum) and the 2007 in Zgorzelec opened Lausitz Museum (Muzeum Luzycki). "Based on selected exhibits from the two textile manufacturing museums of Upper Lusatia, the German damask and Frottiermuseum Großschönau and the Industrial Museum Großröhrsdorf, Poland and the region Ennepe-Ruhr is made of the relationship between traded goods, techniques and ideas in an international context, to the goods - economic and cultural transfer in the border triangle between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic to reflect current and to realize aspirations of European cooperation, "said Faltin. The topic is "sequence with the exhibition" Graphic links in the Dom Kultury (Zgorzelec) continued. The visitor has the possibility of the mechanical lifting and lowering of warp observed via a hole card in a jacquard loom. Photographs by Bernd Schnabel (Görlitz) give insight into social and personal dimensions of the textile manufacturing in Görlitz.
City of contemporary art will be the Gorlitz Halle House, 25 Lower Market. Artists from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany show specifically for the art project created installations that engage in the rooms of the historic building. Historical reference point for artistic debate, the industrialization of the textile manufacturing world and the attendant social and societal processes of change. In its contemporary language to express the artists Suchcicka Elzbieta (Poland), Wanda Dück (Poland), Ilona Chválová (Czech Republic), Eberhard Peters, Bettina Boehme and Bernhard Matthes (all Germany), but also to contemporary processes of this issue.
Theme of the exhibition at the Anne chapel "textiles" is as technical artifacts. Students of Zwickau and the University of Liberec, Faculty of textile manufacturing technology produce their work, the connection to the present and future of the textile world.
"Schneeberger lace" - a traditional way of linen production through bobbin lace technique is replaced - with the material of stainless steel wire, a new image as a design object for the public space. The artist and industrial designer Angelika Rösner (Germany) consists of design with new technologies and their positive energy deal: Light as energy donor and carefully directed light of the artificial and natural light with and through textiles.
The project is initiated and assisted by the district Heimatbund Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis entstanden.aku1
The exhibition takes place from 4 September to 15 October. The opening will take place on 3 September. An exhibition bebildeter bilingual (German-Polish) catalog.