Artwork
#Daniel Dewar
#Grégory Gicquel
#quilts
#sculpture
#textiles
#wooden
“Oak aid with garter sew pull-over” (2024), oak, 115 x 115 x 9 centimeters. All photos © Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, courtesy of Antenna Area, shared with permission
The time period “spoke” has historically referred to a bit of break up log, like these used as helps in a wagon wheel. Conventional basket-making methods draw on that very same idea by weaving versatile materials by a stronger framework. For French inventive duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, notions of interlaced strands, patterns, ecosystems, and vessels form their solo exhibition, The Weaver and the Spoke, at Antenna Area in Shanghai.
Permaculture, a land administration strategy geared towards working with, relatively than in opposition to nature, suffuses Dewar and Gicquel’s work, which regularly depicts animals and habitats coexisting alongside interspersed human-made parts. The chart-like quilts take cues from folks artwork or early pure historical past illustrations, the place wildlife intermingle with objects the artists make use of of their studio, like thread and stitching machines. Knitted sweaters, woven loafers, and snail shells proceed their curiosity in repetition, receptacles, and protecting layers.
Dewar and Gicquel toy with the distinctions between artwork and performance. The standard function of quilts as mattress coverings enhances sculptures that double as storage, like in “Oak cupboard with woven idler shoe and leg.” Hats and footwear nod to the garment business, making a lighthearted comparability between textile’s pliable position all through high-quality artwork, craft, attire, and ornamental arts.
The Weaver and the Spoke continues by Could 11. See extra on the artists’ Instagram.
“Embroidered quilt with widespread flax plant, sticky flax plant, narrow-leaved flax plant, mottled grasshopper, meadow grasshopper, Moroccan grasshopper and bobbin” (2024), cotton and polyester thread on linen material, cotton batting, 168 x 140 centimeters
“Oak bench with white-tailed bumblebees, mallow flowers, dandelion flowers and snails” (2024), embroidery on cushion and oak, 60 x 146 x 66 centimeters
“Oak cupboard with woven idler shoe and leg” (2024), oak, 155 x 65 x 56 centimeters
“Embroidered quilt with earthworms, cockchafer beetle larvae, dandelion crops, Brussels sprout crops, pe-tsaï cabbage crops, kohlrabi cabbage crops, striped protect bug, inexperienced bottle flies, cabbage white butterfly caterpillars, cauliflower cabbage crops, savoy cabbage crops, white-tailed bumblebee, cabbage white butterflies, ladybird beetle, red-tailed bumblebee, honey bee, stitching machine and overlocker machine” (2024), cotton and polyester thread on linen material, cotton batting, 194 x 248.5 centimeters
“Oak cupboard with courgettes and physique fragments” (2024), oak, 155 x 89 x 70 centimeters
“Embroidered quilt with earthworms, cockchafer beetle larvae, false barley grass, crimson fescue grass, poppy crops, meadow fescue grass, English ryegrass, cinnabar moth caterpillar, large peacock moth caterpillar, hebe tiger moth, demise’s-head hawkmoth caterpillar, magpie moth, large peacock moth, demise’s-head hawkmoth, cinnabar moth, sparrow and recorder” (2024), cotton and polyester thread on linen material, cotton batting, 166.5 x 210 centimeters
“Embroidered quilt with earthworms, dandelion plant, clover crops, pea plant, beetroot crops, swallowtail butterfly caterpillar, 22 punctata beetle, ladybird beetle, honey bee, red-tailed bumblebee, white-tailed bumblebee, swallowtail butterfly, Parnassius apollo butterfly, Parnassius apollo butterfly caterpillar, desert cap, cap and work shoe” (2024), cotton and polyester thread on linen material, cotton batting, 166.5 x 194.5 centimeters
#Daniel Dewar
#Grégory Gicquel
#quilts
#sculpture
#textiles
#wooden
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