Exhibits

Jill McCubbin is an enterprising Canadian artist, producing bold paintings of local and international interest. The artist’s acrylic works are lively and often incorporate a surprising anecdote or wordlessly invoke a small story, partially told.

COPTIC textiles were woven by Christian Egyptians in the 3^rd to 12th century. Their intricate designs vary tremendously during one millennium. Yet, the artistic expression and joyful love for imaginative woven designs is strong in all epochs. Abstraction of the human form figure, of beasts and saints, of warriors, dancers, horsemen, nereid and stylized leaves and flowers started with the Islamic conquest in the 7^th century. The tapestry-woven textiles are mostly cut out tunic fragments, executed in extremely fine weaving quality with exuberant fantasy of the woven images.

“The autobiographical sculpture nurtured and knitted by Božica Rađenović is about facing yourself. It is a kind of a diary that our artist keeps as a place of her reconsideration of identity and existence itself, her personal foothold. Knitting is a way to materialize, with the finest threads, the dreamed and imagined, to express longing, not to forget the past and to create the new… The world of knitting that grows like by cellular division contains vitality and regenerative powers, interweaving of memories of traces of the previous life into everyday life. The material itself, but also the names of some knitted sculptures have as their aim to bring about the effect of the organic, warmth, safety of a nest, mother’s hug, clothes as protection, covering and wrapping of people and organic and inorganic worlds in a knitted, woolen material that is a symbol of tenderness, care, safety and warm touch, embracement and taking in. In her new country, the sculptor has the feeling of having lost her footing, her safe refuge and therefore her sculptures often hover, vibrate in space, showing static instability and interacting with every physical, mechanical movement or even the slightest air flow. A knitted tree hanging or shoes with roots growing from the soles are some of the variations of the theme of being without roots in a new social and art context.”