This design features an image that is taken from an engraving from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie (1751) and shows the inside of a weaving workshop. The text draws a parallel between past and present and reflects on the presence of children in the work - place, which became a new reality during the recent pandemic.
When Andrea Galiazzo was asked to make a larger work for the Huset for Kunst og Design in Holstebro, Denmark, he approached the TextielLab. He developed a tapestry measuring 481 x 316 cm called ‘All Things Considered’. The design could be seen until early 2023 in Pink Glass Swan, a duo exhibition with Marthe Ramm Fortun. The fabric consists of a historical image with a contemporary caption. The image is taken from an engraving from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie (1751) and shows the inside of a weaving workshop. The text draws a parallel between past and present and reflects on the presence of children in the work - place, which became a new reality during the recent pandemic.
Andrea Galiazzo is an Italian artist who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He has been weaving on a TC1 loom for several years.
His practice interweaves conceptual and narrative expressions with biographical elements, everyday trivialities, and contradictions. His work deliberately breaks from traditional heroic artist narratives, instead focusing on revealing the artist's presence and agency through carefully selected anecdotes and linguistic transpositions that serve as poetic interruptions.
'Pink Glass Swan', Huset for Kunst & Design, Holstebro, November 18, 2022 – February 19, 2023
