Sigrid Calon
Sigrid Calon
Info in Tilburg
In 2024, a new information point opened at Tilburg’s station. Called Info in Tilburg, the central location also sells work by local artists, including tea towels by Sigrid Calon. Calon also developed a textile installation for the information point on behalf of City Marketing. The work refers to Tilburg’s history as a textile city and to the TextielMuseum in particular.
For the installation, Calon had her Woven grids digitally printed on strips of fabric and made her own version of an old-fashioned ‘fly screen’. In the TextielLab’s passementerie department, 32 unique cords were made, showing the range of possibilities of this technique. The cords are partly made from the same yarns as Calon’s new Woven grids, which were shown earlier in the year at Art Rotterdam.
Woven Grids
Tilburg artist Sigrid Calon has been working with the TextielLab for years. She has developed various products for the museum’s own label, including a series of jacquard-woven tea towels and two knitted plaids. She specialises in riso printing, a process best described as screen printing on a photocopier, in which colours are applied one at a time in a grid. Where the grids overlap, mixed colours are produced. Calon uses this principle in her printed and painted works as well as on the loom.
In 2024, Calon added a new series to her Woven grids, which she first started in 2014. Using a maximum of four colours, she made a series of unique combinations of colour blocks that play with the ‘mixing effect’. From a distance, the blocks appear to be a single colour. However, move closer and pixels become visible. Closer still and it becomes apparent how the different coloured yarns are interwoven. The edges of the orderly grids are left unfinished in a nod to perfection versus imperfection. The new Woven grids were exhibited in Galerie VIVID at ART Rotterdam in 2024.
Foto’s van de beursstand door Yves Krol
