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LEFT BY BUTTERFLIES SILK COCOONS HAVE FOUND PURPOSE IN MONUMENTAL ARTWORKS,
NEW YORK, April 2017
(FREE REGISTRATION LINK AT THE BOTTOM)
“The Birth of an Idea XXIX”, Private Art Collection Oslo, Norway
Cocoons convey a delicacy, transformation and silence. Delicate as the silk moth worm spins the thin thread that make up the cocoon, silent as the worms prefer to spin in complete silence and transformative as the cocoons leaves their egg house once the chrysalis is transformed into a moth. The silk housing is beautiful and each cocoon is unique.
Cocoons has always fascinated ancient civilizations. They represent change and produce one of the most exquisitely beautiful fabrics: silk. Ida Ivanka Kubler has managed to incorporate this material raw into her works with a simplicity and beauty that it is overwhelming.
Cocoons has always fascinated ancient civilizations. They represent change and produce one of the most exquisitely beautiful fabrics: silk. Ida Ivanka Kubler has managed to incorporate this material raw into her works with a simplicity and beauty that it is overwhelming.
“The Birth of an Idea XXI ” SOLD, private art collection New York
Ida Ivanka Kubler grew up in the sericulture for silk cocoons and was surrounded by cocoons. As a child she developed patterns and primitive art from the cocoons using pulverised orange bricks mixed with water to paint them.
Ida, as a Chelsea College postgraduate student, refound her connection with cocoons via four hundred cocoons that had been stored by her grand parents. Developing her earlier relationship with cocoons she sculptured each cocoon individually with six “wings” looking like an open hand with five fingers. The cocoons are given another identity while still retaining their silence. They are transformed into an evocative landscape. Ida takes the delicate and transformative silence of cocoons and creates pieces of art that allows us to meditate, to pause and to energise. Her works reflects the tranquility enjoyed under the shadow of the Mulberry trees on a hot summer afternoon.
The artworks are rectangular painted canvases with sculptured, colored and arranged silk cocoons. The resulting half-object paintings are kaleidoscopic. Tension is created by the silk cocoon groupings and contrasting colors. The repetition in her artwork is at once geometric and ordered but is also subversive in its use of color. The overall effect is one that the viewer finds instantly known, visceral and transcendent or what the artist calls “imaginative touch”. The artist says “My art introduces the viewer to the passions of tactile experiences, which I feel when I am producing those artworks”. “The Birth of an Idea” series has been recognized by the Behring Institute for Medical Research as having a positive influence on health. The artwork is deemed to promote relaxation and positive excitement at the same time in the viewer
Ida, as a Chelsea College postgraduate student, refound her connection with cocoons via four hundred cocoons that had been stored by her grand parents. Developing her earlier relationship with cocoons she sculptured each cocoon individually with six “wings” looking like an open hand with five fingers. The cocoons are given another identity while still retaining their silence. They are transformed into an evocative landscape. Ida takes the delicate and transformative silence of cocoons and creates pieces of art that allows us to meditate, to pause and to energise. Her works reflects the tranquility enjoyed under the shadow of the Mulberry trees on a hot summer afternoon.
The artworks are rectangular painted canvases with sculptured, colored and arranged silk cocoons. The resulting half-object paintings are kaleidoscopic. Tension is created by the silk cocoon groupings and contrasting colors. The repetition in her artwork is at once geometric and ordered but is also subversive in its use of color. The overall effect is one that the viewer finds instantly known, visceral and transcendent or what the artist calls “imaginative touch”. The artist says “My art introduces the viewer to the passions of tactile experiences, which I feel when I am producing those artworks”. “The Birth of an Idea” series has been recognized by the Behring Institute for Medical Research as having a positive influence on health. The artwork is deemed to promote relaxation and positive excitement at the same time in the viewer
Ida Ivanka Kubler is creating in Manhattan, NYC. She has an international reputation and has worked worldwide including France, Bulgaria, Germany, Norway, USA and UK. She has a number of international collectors. Ida has exhibited in Germany, the Netherlands, London and New York.
Her upcoming solo show will be at Chinatown Soup, 16 Orchard Street, Chinatown, New York 10002, Show times: Tues, April 25th – Tues, May 2nd, 12pm – 7pm, (Closed on Monday, the 1st May),
Opening reception: Tues, April 25th, 6pm-9pm, 2017
Artist: Ida Ivanka Kubler
Phone: 917 402 6964
Email: [email protected]
Her upcoming solo show will be at Chinatown Soup, 16 Orchard Street, Chinatown, New York 10002, Show times: Tues, April 25th – Tues, May 2nd, 12pm – 7pm, (Closed on Monday, the 1st May),
Opening reception: Tues, April 25th, 6pm-9pm, 2017
Artist: Ida Ivanka Kubler
Phone: 917 402 6964
Email: [email protected]
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SOLO SHOW PREVIEW, 25th of April:
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