Victoria Woodcock wrote about Richard Saltoun Gallery's BRAFA stand featuring most renowned Post-war female textile artists for the Financial Times.
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[Barbara] Levittoux-Swiderska’s work is being highlighted by Richard Saltoun gallery in Textile Pioneers, a booth at the Brafa art fair (January 28-February 4) in Brussels, dedicated to the women artists who made bold statements with traditional tapestry techniques in the 1960s and 1970s. “They are finally getting some well-deserved visibility,” says the show’s curator Sonja Teszler.
Two of Richard Saltoun’s featured artists are now in their nineties and still working: Bologna-based Greta Schödl — whose “signature vocabulary of repetitive letters and symbols,” says Teszler, will feature in the upcoming Venice Biennale — and Colombian artist Olga de Amaral. The latter’s work can be densely woven — the wall hanging on show at Brafa is a brawny, flame-coloured interlacing of wool and horsehair — or delicate and diaphanous, hanging in strands from the ceiling or coated in gold leaf.
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Artists included are Magdalena ABAKANOWICZ, Eileen AGAR, Jagoda BUIĆ, Olga DE AMARAL, Carmen DIONYSE, Valentine HUGO, Luba KREJCI, Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA, Meret OPPENHEIM, Ewa PACHUKA and Greta SCHÖDL.
