Woven Forms’ Carpet Art Exhibit Travels to Domotex

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Pushing the boundaries of carpet art, a special exhibition of rugs designed by the likes of Thaddeus Wolfe and Wendell Castle travels to Domotex 2018 in Hannover, Germany, following New York City and Venice premieres

A collaboration between New York art gallery R & Company and Italian carpet atelier Amini Carpets, Woven Forms is currently on show in Tribeca as an appointment-only pop-up exhibition through Dec. 31. Featuring rugs by 10 renowned artists, the show will debut to a larger international audience at the Amini booth in the new Hall 9, Stand S02 at Domotex, running from Jan. 12-15.

“Woven Forms explores the history of the carpet making processes from India and Nepal and challenges the limits of the craft and the industry by offering some of the design world’s greatest talents the opportunity to explore their ideas within the medium of textiles,” noted Evan Snyderman, partner of R & Company, curator of the exhibition

The designers participating in Woven Forms include glass sculpturer Thaddeus Wolfe, furniture artist Katie Stout, toy designer Renate Müller, abstract painter Lluís Lleó, ceramics artist Hun-Chung Lee, sculpturer Rogan Gregory,
furniture maker Wendell Castle, fiber/textile artist Dana Barnes, furniture and object designers the Haas Brothers and decorative artist David Wiseman.

“We invited ten different designers to create these area rugs and each had a unique approach,” Gabriella Picone told RugNews.com during a private viewing of the exhibition. “For almost all of the designers, this is the first time ‘Woven Forms’ Carpet Art Exhibit Travels to Domotex they have worked in this material and it presented
them with an opportunity to think in a new medium and to think about their studio practice in different way.”

Right in line with the upcoming Domotex fair’s “Unique Youniverse” keynote theme focusing on the product individualization megatrend, each rug in the Woven Forms exhibit is a limited edition piece that took roughly six months to produce.