Latest works by Beata Gerbocova from Slovakia
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Beata Gerbocova from Slovakia shared with us the pictures of her latest works, titled Lake and Beauties. All of the pieces as a part of these two series were woven on the TC2 on a black polyester warp. She used different types of cotton, metallic and synthetic as weft threads.
The first series called Lake is a collection of jacquard-woven textiles. The inspiration for this series comes from a novel by a Czech author Bianca Bellova, titled Lake. It is a story of a difficult and sad life of a young man, who was born at the wrong place, at the wrong time. His entire life is strongly connected with the catastrophic lake Aral. The symbols of lake, animals like frogs, fishes, or hellbenders, and water plants are visible in each piece.
Beata says she created these pieces as a composition of small “animations” to this novel. To underline her objective, she decided to combine the weaving with other techniques like silk print and digital embroidery. The colour tones of entire collection reflect the burdensome mood of young man’s life, which is also portrayed in the colours of swamp. Beata has worked with gold and silver threads for the weaving and also used similar or contrast colours for the prints and embroidery. This textile work is exhibited at the design studio at ULUV and the atmosphere for the project was accentuated by the use of projectors.
The second project that Beata worked on, is called Beauties. She calls this a different type of work than the first one. Beauties was made in cooperation with the well-known Slovak product designer Michal Staško. He did a redesign of wooden chairs that were originally made in the sixties at the Slovak manufactur Pravenec. He changed the shape of the backrest for these chairs and Beata designed and wove the upholstery for them. Michal Staško called the chairs “Paff”, which means peacock in Slovak and “Paff” is also the word for something unique.
The expressive colours of these chairs inspired Beata to design three different patterns – in white, red and black. The idea behind creating upholstery for these chairs was to represent three different women characters. Her objective was to anthropomorphize non-life objects. This project was exhibited at the Festival of Design at the Bratislava Design Week in the beginning of this summer.
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