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MARIAN BIJLENGA

Maria Rosaria Roseo

Italiano (Italian)

Marian Bijlenga is a Dutch artist who studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

“I am fascinated by dots, lines and contours, by their rhythmical movements but also by the empty space they confine. Instead of drawing on paper, I draw in space by using textile as a material. I work with thread, fabric and horsehair, fishscales and parchment, materials which are soft, light, flexible and open to endless development. For me transparency is a prerequisite. By leaving some space between the structure and the wall the object is freed from its background and interacts with the white wall. It becomes what I call a “Spatial Drawing”.

“Fish scale”, 2018, 106 x 102 cm, fish scales, henna, stitched, copyright Marian Bijlenga

“Grid”, 2016, 60 x 60 cm, horsehair, fabric, stitched, copyright Marian Bijlenga

“Broken Dots-detail”, 2016, 106 x 97 cm, copyright Marian Bijlenga

She has won several prizes, including : Excellence Award, 6th International Textile Competition, Kyoto, Japan (1999) – Biennial Prize, 2nd International Tapestry Art Biennial, Beijing, China(2002) – Bavarian State Prize, Exempla, Munchen, BRD (2010)

Her work is collected internationally, and is represented in the LongHouse Reserve,USA, The Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA, The Craftmuseum, Finland, and the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, and Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, NL.

Fonti: https://marianbijlenga.tumblr.com/

Photos has been taken from the artist’s website and are covered by copyright  

“Flow-detail”, 2018, 113 x 130 cm, horsehair, fabric, stitched, copyright Marian Bijlenga“Untitled-detail”, 2013, horsehair, fabric- 96 x 100 cm, copyright Marian Bijlenga“Sampler”, 2018, 100 x 100 cm, horsehair, fabric, stitched, copyright Marian BijlengaStudio, October 2019, copyright Marian Bijlenga“Traces of writing”, 2014, 47 x 47 cm, copyright Marian Bijlenga“Traces of Writing”, 2014- horsehair, fabric, stitched. 280 x 280 cm. Espace Enny, copyright Marian Bijlenga“Untitled”, 2015, horsehair, fabric, stitched. 60 x 60 cm, copyright Marian Bijlenga“Untitled”, 2018, 75 x 65 cm, horsehair, fabric, stitched, copyright Marian Bijlenga

Maria Rosaria Roseo

English version Dopo una laurea in giurisprudenza e un’esperienza come coautrice di testi giuridici, ho scelto di dedicarmi all’attività di famiglia, che mi ha permesso di conciliare gli impegni lavorativi con quelli familiari di mamma. Nel 2013, per caso, ho conosciuto il quilting frequentando un corso. La passione per l’arte, soprattutto l’arte contemporanea, mi ha avvicinato sempre di più al settore dell’arte tessile che negli anni è diventata una vera e propria passione. Oggi dedico con entusiasmo parte del mio tempo al progetto di Emanuela D’Amico: ArteMorbida, grazie al quale, posso unire il piacere della scrittura al desiderio di contribuire, insieme a preziose collaborazioni, alla diffusione della conoscenza delle arti tessili e di raccontarne passato e presente attraverso gli occhi di alcuni dei più noti artisti tessili del panorama italiano e internazionale.