Anne Wilson

Anne Wilson, Portable city, The initial presentation of this project will be in a solo exhibition at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, January 25 - February 2008.
''The sculpture project entitled Portable City proposes liaisons between textiles and the built environment. Comprised of a horizontal field of 48 mobile platforms, each platform holds a structure of thread or wire filament constructed of knit, crochet, or lines under tension, suspension, compression, or collapse. Elements of ancient handwork participate in new thinking about the viability of lightweight mesh structures to create temporary and portable architectures. A city is imagined of tensile networks, deflated domes, skeletal igloos, flattened tents, elevated canopies, schematic cooling towers, linear pathways, rubble from collapse, stacks and parts to rebuild. The overall field suggests a macrocosm of detailed worlds of connections where ideas and implications emerge of both usefulness and disjunction.''
Magnifique projet!
Splendid project!
Sources: Winter Sleep, Anne Wilson