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Connection of times

Natalia Vasilyevna Pershina-Kalliopina • Design and applied art, 2018, 270×210 cm
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Materials: Silk, Wool, Cotton
Date of creation: 2018
Size: 270×210 cm

Description of the artwork «Connection of times»

TAPESTIN – TAPER “COMMUNICATION OF TIME”
Pershin N. V., Dorozhkina E., Kachalov M.R.

A modern reading of the engraving of the seventeenth century, size 50 cm * 40 cm, turned into a tapestry 2.70 meters * 2.10 meters (The engraving original is kept in the University Library of Amsterdam)

Before us is luxurious. a royal lion standing on its hind legs with a seventeenth-century map of Holland printed on it. This is the emblem of Holland.

On the sides in ellipses are silhouettes of various cities in Holland. This garland of cities from the sides of the tapestry, forming a kind of frame, closes horizontally at the top. With the image of representatives of various classes of the population.

In the center to the right of the cartouche with a lion, but no longer royal, two characters - the trading bourgeoisie, noble merchants. Behind them horizontally representatives of agriculture, the guild of cheese making.

To the left of the cartouche are two in carnival costumes. This is the highest nobility, nobility, title of person.

Then the guild of fishermen. mining and processing marine catches. In the seventeenth century, Holland was the most powerful power in the world.

The specifics of the tapestry, its technique, the frequency of the stretched base dictates a certain manner of performance, starting from the pattern of cardboard, tone, linear to the selection of the corresponding yarn.

The color of the tapestry is made in a soft, gray-cold palette, in tone from white to saturated deep dark.

Before us is an “old” tapestry, mysteriously enlivened by the work of an artist of the twenty-first century, surprisingly becoming the work of an artist of the seventeenth century.

In the end, we have before us the modern work of contemporary authors, carried out jointly for almost three years.
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