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New Textiles from Timorous Beasties
These beasties may be timorous but their textiles are not. The latest prints from the Glasgow-based studio who brought us the Kaleido Splat lampshades and Seaweed Column fabric are anything but fearful and resigned—the very opposite, in fact.
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Moire Damask from Timorous Beasties
While they acknowledge that both Gerhard Gum and Moire Damask signal in some ways a return to tradition, they just as quickly pivot and undercut this sentiment.
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Gerhard Gum wallcovering
In the Timorous Beasties oeuvre, These “old and familiar repeats” use technological advancements to alter and enhance familiar techniques: “traditional pattern devices are overlaid and then overlaid again with geometric moiré.” Moire Damask is thus a dizzying and dazzling display of nuanced interacting shapes, seeming to shift and supplant one another with a perspectival prestidigitation that rivals M.C. Escher.
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Moire Damask detail
The twin halves of Rorschach are visible here, as are the forms of arabesque and Rococo: “a heady synthesis for a pattern-scape of shimmering beauty, a lustrous digital flow, a new damask dialect, a decorative theatre of pattern and repeat.”
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Gerhard Gum offers a similar strategy of overlay and doppelgangery, but with a distinctly dissolutionist bent, in this overt homage to artist Gerhard Richter and his technique of applying inks squeegeed through a printing screen.
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For me, the effect is one of beautiful, inexorable disappearance and decay, a dark and drooping downward pull, as if the ink were an entity of self creation, propelled along by its heady mass alone.
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Moire Damask comes in three colorways and Gerhard Gum in two. Contact these not-so-Timorous Beasties to find out more.
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