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Brigitte Huck on Sheila Hicks

Artforum International, 2021, Vol.59 (6)

Copyright Artforum Inc. Apr 2021 ;ISSN: 1086-7058

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  • Title:
    Brigitte Huck on Sheila Hicks
  • Author: Huck, Brigitte
  • Subjects: Abstract art ; Art exhibits ; Fiber arts ; Personality ; Sculpture ; Textiles
  • Is Part Of: Artforum International, 2021, Vol.59 (6)
  • Description: In countless small-format woven pieces she calls minimes—daily meditations and color and material studies—she presses forward with an endeavor that predates even the time she spent at the Yale School of Art in New Haven as a student of Josef Albers in the 1950s, when she discovered the textile designs and persuasive personality of his wife, Anni Albers. In a nod to Pichler’s barrier between inside and outside, Hicks and curator Bärbel Vischer have mounted on the facing wall the ravishing Moroccan Prayer Rug, 1972, one of several such works the artist made after being invited by the Moroccan government to help invigorate the country’s rug-making industry in 1971. Moroccan Prayer Rug anchors Hicks’s proliferating and positively fractious coloristic escapades: from the asphalt-hued anthropomorphic Menhir, 1998–2004, to the purple cascade of Perruque aubergine, 1984/85; onward past the majestic Lianes ivoires, 2019/20, and Lianes indigo, 2020, to the dramatically illuminated Racines de la culture/Roots of Culture, 2018, a pastiche of nature and technology, of tangled roots and cables; and finally into the grand hall, where the visitor is greeted by the floor-to-ceiling column of Apprentissages de la Victoire, 2008–16, with cords and twines in shimmering gold and coconut fibers sheathed in spun yellow wool.
  • Publisher: New York: Artforum Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1086-7058
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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