Vernissage of the exhibition Penelope’s Labour: Weaving Words and Images

The exhibition Penelope’s Labour: Weaving Words and Images, featuring antique and contemporary tapestries and carpets, curated by Adam Lowe and Jerry Brotton, produced and organised by the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, and Factum Arte, Madrid, will have its vernissage on May 31 at 17.30 at the Centro Espositivo on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

Upon invitation

The exhibition will be open to the public from June 4 to September 18, 2011


The main idea of the exhibition is to highlight
Vittorio Cini’s great interest in the manual production of tapestry and
at the same time explore developments in contemporary art and the
renewed ability of artists to use the medium to tell very varied,
compelling stories that address the warp and weft of our contemporary
realities. Ranging from late 15th-century tapestries depicting the siege
of Jerusalem to Azra Aksamija’s collective weaving on ethnic cleansing
in Bosnia Herzegovina, Grayson Perry’s vast allegory of contemporary
life in the Walthamstow Tapestry and Mark Quinn’s "flowers" of our
manipulated natural world, this exhibition puts the woven image back at
the heart of contemporary artistic practice.

In addition to some of the finest late 15th-century tapestries in the
Giorgio Cini Foundation collections, the exhibition will also include
contemporary tapestries and other fabrics by artists such as: Azra
Aksamija, Lara Baladi, Alighiero Boetti, Manuel Franquelo, Carlos
Garaicoa, Craigie Horsfield, Simon Peers & Nicholas Godley, Grayson
Perry and Marc Quinn.

Tenuta Belcorvo
Lattebusche
Sanpellegrino

In this page Grasyson Perry, Walthamstow Tapestry, 2009, 290×1500

In home page: Fin de silencio
2009, an installation of 5 tapestries and 2 video projections, variable dimensions; wool, silk and gold thread.
Woven by Flanders Tapestries from files prepared by Factum Arte, in an edition of 3. Lent by the Artist and Galeria Continua.