Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part IV [1]Art QuiltsMarie-Therese Wisniowski

Preamble
Art Quilts have featured on this blogspot and so for your convenience I have listed below previous posts in this series:
Art Quilts - Part I
Art Quilts - Part II
Art Quilts - Part III
Art Quilts - Part IV
Art Quilts - Part V
Art Quilts - Part VI
Art Quilts - Part VII
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part I
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part II
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part III
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part I
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part II
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part III
Art Quilts of Jane Sassaman
Art Quilts of Michael A. Cummings
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part IV

Introduction
The European Art Quilt Foundation from the Netherlands organizes an exhibition of quilts from Europe every two years.

Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part IV [1]

Cecilia González (Barcelona, Spain)

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Title: Butter Blocks (2013).
Materials: Noil silk and hand dyed hankies.
Technique: Personal technique with hankies and free motion quilting.
Size: 98 x 98 cm.
Comment[1]: Color netblocks that melt, mix, overlap and create a new fabric of colors. With the warmth of love, they are no longer isolated units but instead a complex network of fine, new and delicate connextions.

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Wille Groenewolt (Elst, the Netherlands)

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Title: Time Capsule (2014).
Materials: Layers of tulle, organza, fibers, lace and very thin paper.
Technique: Fabric construction using water soluble fabric, and sewing. This work is three-dimensional. It consists of three separate pieces.
Size: 150 x 150 cm.
Comment[1]: A moment in time, caught in here and now in a time capsule. Due to these capsules, you can preserve precious moments and connect to a moment from the past.

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Renate Guetlein (Warthausen, Germany)

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Title: See You in the Tracks (2014).
Materials: Fifty ski marathon bibs made of various materials (e.g., carbon, Tyvek, paper, polyester etc.)
Technique: Machine appliqué on cotton, hand quilted.
Size: 160 x 160 cm.
Comment[1]: Cross country skiing is regarded as a sport that brings together people from different countries. The quilt is composed from pieces of bibs from various popular cross country ski races all over Europe. Thanks to my husband who kindly allowed himself to be separated from his precious memories.

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Claudia Helmer (Bad Soden, Germany)

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Title: Luminale 3 (2014).
Materials: Cotton, cotton wadding, cotton sateen, photocopies of my own photographs, sheer polyester, matte medium, quilting threads.
Technique: Fabric dyeing, paper lamination, screen printing, and machine quilting.
Size: 100 x 184 cm.
Comment[1]: Luminale is a biennial festival of light in the city of Frankfurt. The sober business surface of the buildings is transformed into a colorful and sometimes playful pattern.
The top layer of the piece is a paper lamination of photographs that I took at the festival, using a screen of my own handwriting for the patterning. Using the words 'Schatten' and 'Licht' (shadow and light) have two different meanings to me: the play of shadow and light during the festival and the two faces of the city.

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Reference:
[1] European Art Quilt Foundation, Molenschat, Netherlands (2014).