Description
Francisco Javier Garcerá Ruiz is a Spanish artist who will do a research residency at Textílsetur Íslands, the Icelandic Textile Center, during the month of July 2014. The goal of theTextile Center is to promote Icelandic and international textiles by holding seminars and to encourage research as well as education within the textile field of art and design. Francisco Javier Garcerá Ruiz will do a theoretical and practical research of Icelandic textile techniques in the fields of loom, natural dyers, felting, tapestry and patterns. There will be an exhibition about his work and he will cooperate with Icelandic artists and art professionals. Additionally, during one week he will do a field work and study the Icelandic landscape. The knowledge obtained during the residency, through the two above mentioned stages, will form the basis for his next artistic project in the area of painting. Icelandic textile techniques and the geographical references to the landscape, will work as mechanisms to convey and spread Icelandic culture in the context of contemporary art. Support is provided to help address fragmentation and to stimulate artist mobility and capacity development.
Summary of project results
Spanish artist Francisco Javier Garcerá Ruiz took up a temporary research residency at Textílsetur Íslands, the Icelandic Textile Center, during the month of July 2014. Garcerá made theoretical and practical research of Icelandic textile techniques in the fields of loom, natural dyers, felting, tapestry and patterns. Through the results of his work the piece “Here and now” came together and was shown at an exhibition entitled LIMN on 19 and 20 July at the Icelandic Textile Center. Support was provided for this project to help address fragmentation and to stimulate artist mobility and capacity development. Garcerá cooperated with both Icelandic and international artists during his residency. As well as Garcerá, artists from the USA, Scotland and Canada participated in the exhibition. Additionally, during his stay Garcerá did a field study of the Icelandic landscape. The objective was to investigate the relationship between nature and culture through the interpretation of landscape. The experience and visual documentation obtained during the residency will likely form an integral part of future projects and exhibitions.
Summary of bilateral results