Rini Hurkmans   

 

 

 

 

Rini Hurkmans   

Pietà, Millefleurs, Verdure 

 

During her first visit to the TextielLab in 2024, artist Rini Hurkmans developed 55 small woven tapestries with white spring flowers as a recurring motif. The works were part of an installation in her solo exhibition at Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam. The tapestries, measuring approximately 25 x 30 cm, hung on the walls around a beeswax sculpture titled Pietà, millefleurs. The installation continues Hurkmans’ long-term investigation of Michelangelo’s Pietà (1499). For this work, she was also inspired by La dame à la licorne (1500), a series of tapestries made in the millefleurs style.

The installation is an artistic exploration of the concepts of absence and loss in relation to ethics and politics. Hurkmans combines the colourful floral motifs with the Pietà theme to investigate the disruption of human values ​​and natural harmony. The designs all share the same palette but are woven in a different mix of yarns and weaves to emphasise the uniqueness of each flower.

 

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Photos by Giovanni Nardi and Rini Hurkmans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

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