Greetings Card
1999 (made)
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Silke Radenhausen's recent work is concerned with redressing a 19th century European tendency to standardise and categorise the products of other cultures as a way of controlling or taming them. Taking as her starting point the ordered geometry of the plates illustrating Owen Jones' 'Grammer [sic] of Ornament', Radenhausen re-works them in richly suggestive, three-dimensional textile pieces arranged in large panels, which the artist says is "embodying and fetishising them in a kind of double raid on art... interjecting sensual and material irregularities..."
The greeting card can be a vehicle of self-expression for contemporary artists. This millennium greeting reads like a detail or fragment of one of Radenhausen's larger works.
The greeting card can be a vehicle of self-expression for contemporary artists. This millennium greeting reads like a detail or fragment of one of Radenhausen's larger works.
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Materials and techniques | Synthetic organza |
Brief description | Millennium 'card' in red and green organza by Silke Radenhausen, 1999. |
Physical description | Irregular rectangular red and green form, resembling a detail or fragment of one of the artist's soft sculptures/ wall hangings. |
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Production type | Limited edition |
Credit line | Given by Susan Lambert |
Production | Reason For Production: Private |
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Summary | Silke Radenhausen's recent work is concerned with redressing a 19th century European tendency to standardise and categorise the products of other cultures as a way of controlling or taming them. Taking as her starting point the ordered geometry of the plates illustrating Owen Jones' 'Grammer [sic] of Ornament', Radenhausen re-works them in richly suggestive, three-dimensional textile pieces arranged in large panels, which the artist says is "embodying and fetishising them in a kind of double raid on art... interjecting sensual and material irregularities..." The greeting card can be a vehicle of self-expression for contemporary artists. This millennium greeting reads like a detail or fragment of one of Radenhausen's larger works. |
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Accession number | E.53-2000 |
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Record created | April 16, 2002 |
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