Hypnos at Atelier Oï
Environmental Hangover is the image of a planet after excess. For his largest institutional solo exhibition to date at Kunsthalle Basel, Pedro Wirz designed a world between longing for nature and belief in progress, between ecological responsibility and unrestrained consumption. Organic materials met industrial fabrics, artisanal processes met the visual language of a technologized present. The exhibition revolved around the contradictions of a society that longs for untouched nature while simultaneously demanding ever new products, devices, and developments.
At the center of this multi-layered cosmos stood Ovo Espacial: a monumental work made of wool, measuring 10.15 × 8 meters. Even the title – the "space egg" – opens a space for thought between origin and future, shelter and unknown world. The work appears less as a classic rug and more as a textile landscape: soft and physical, yet alien and of almost cosmic presence.
Pedro Wirz combines in his work personal memories of the tropical Vale do Paraíba in Brazil with natural science, folklore, and mythology. His works tell of colonialism and raw material trade, technological progress, climate change, and species extinction – but never in the form of a clear message. Rather, mysterious spaces arise in which material, history, and imagination overlap.
In Ovo Espacial, wool becomes an artistic medium and the floor a picture surface. The work changes the perception of space: it is walked on, circled, experienced up close, and read from a distance. Its dimension gives it a sculptural power, while the textile surface creates closeness and intimacy.
For Ruckstuhl Art Rugs, Ovo Espacial exemplifies a form of collaboration in which art is not transferred onto textile but developed together with the material. Ruckstuhl accompanied the new production for the exhibition with the knowledge and experience of its own rug and carpet manufactory. The result is a work that defies any purely functional interpretation: rug, image, landscape, and independent artistic presence all at once.
Variant
Material
pure virgin wool
Technologie
Robot tufting
Galerien & Partner
Edition ansehen oder beziehen
Finden Sie ausgewählte Galerie- und Fachhandelspartner, die mit dieser Art Edition verbunden sind.
Für diese Suche wurde keine passende Galerie gefunden.
