REGIME OF IMAGES: MARGRET EICHER'S SOLO EXHIBITION AT YAY GALLERY
27 Jan - 19 Mar 15
YAY GALLERY is pleased to announce that their first exhibition of 2015 will be German artist Margret Eicher’s solo exhibition ‘Regime of Images’, starting on 27th January.
Margret Eicher became known for her large format tapestries, in which she combines baroque forms with the visual language of today’s information media.
This is the first time these works will be shown in Baku.
Margret Eicher is a German conceptual artist specialising in tapestry. Margret is famous for her enormous tapestries, in which she combines baroque imagery with well-known and familiar images of our information society. The central motifs of her tapestries relate to current images of photojournalism and advertising from print and digital media. The icons of our modern information society are reproduced in a conceptually well-founded piracy of images, taken from a wide range of sources. Her art is its own kind of symbiosis, a synthesis and a blend of classical traditions and modernity. This quality makes her tapestries extremely relevant today.
Her artistic position is not that of a creator, but of a creative recipient. Through a selective use of imagery, the artist reproduces a cultural or political statement. ‘Borrowing’ as a cultural and artistic act dates back to the twentieth century with the emergence of collages and montages. In Margret's works, this takes on a critical and political stance.
In her tapestries, the artist adheres to the predominant pillars of tapestry manufacture. Preserving the frame of the central composition, created according to the historical and traditional functional symbols and semantics, Eicher introduces hints of modernity in a canonized form (with stencil).
Margret Eicher's media-tapestries are high-tech industrial products and inexpensive handiwork. In Flanders, the birthplace of court tapestries, the textile industry is very active manufacturing copies of old images to sell as souvenirs on the international market. The artist deliberately chooses to replace traditional and expensive tapestries because this replacing of traditions is an example of amusements typical of our time, based on the collective use of intellectual property.
Opening: 27th January 2015 at 19:00.
Admission: free
The exhibition will be held until 27th March 2015.
Opening hours: 12:00 > 20:00 (except Monday)
Address: Icheri Sheher, 5 Kichik Qala Street (in front of A.Vahid sculpture)
Info: +994 (0)12 505 2323 / info@yaygallery.com
