Anna Torma : permanent danger = danger permanent /
Permanent Danger takes its title from Anna Torma's 2017 artwork of the same name, intimating meanings that encompass human strife and vulnerability, conditions of sustained risk, threatened natural environments, and the highs and lows of daily life. Her uniquely dense and vivid textiles are the...
| Uniform Title: | Anna Torma (2021) |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Text in English and French. |
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Toronto, ON :
Textile Museum of Canada,
[2021]
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| Summary: | Permanent Danger takes its title from Anna Torma's 2017 artwork of the same name, intimating meanings that encompass human strife and vulnerability, conditions of sustained risk, threatened natural environments, and the highs and lows of daily life. Her uniquely dense and vivid textiles are the perfect expression of such complex experiences, intensely layering details that speak to ideas of family and well-being, sexuality and identity, home and place. With a practice that is deeply embedded in her mother's and grandmothers' traditional embroidered Hungarian textiles, Torma takes her predecessors' materials, motifs, and techniques into new personal, social, and cultural terrain. In the development of each narrative composition, the artist sources her materials from all over the world; the linen, cotton, silk, thread, and found materials she incorporates are selected for their distinct physical qualities as well as their cultural allusions, with references from popular culture to traditional Hungarian patterns and thrift shop aesthetics. The exhibition comprises 15 large-scale embroideries made by the artist since 2011 as she has come to terms with the world through boldly stitched statements. In Torma's words: "...the most important things that the work must suggest are passion, freshness, and a new discovery every time for a viewer." -- Exhibition website. |
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| Item Description: | Catalogue of an exhibition held at Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, Ontario) from August 7, 2020 to March 20, 2021, at the Art Gallery of Guelph from May 20 to October 3, 2021, and at the Owens Art Gallery from October 30, 2021 to January 18, 2022. "Exhibition curator: Sarah Quinton"--Page 109. |
| Physical Description: | 105 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780980908893 0980908892 |