Georgian Silk Museum exhibition Soie - Silk opens at Belgian contemporary art gallery Les Drapiers for first time outside country
The “wonderful” exhibition of the Tbilisi Silk Museum showcases the works of a Georgian artist Tamuna Chabashvili, with Belgian artist Jean-Luc Petit creating the exhibition's concept and design. Photo via State Silk Museum
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The exhibition ‘Soie - Silk’, featuring the State Silk Museum collection, was opened on Saturday at the contemporary art gallery Les Drapiers in Belgium’s city of Liège, with Tbilisi’s one of the oldest museum collections brought outside Georgia for the first time.
The “wonderful” exhibition of the Tbilisi Silk Museum showcases the works of a Georgian artist Tamuna Chabashvili, with Belgian artist Jean-Luc Petit creating the exhibition's concept and design.
Wonderful exhibition of Tbilisi Silk Museum in Les Drapiers Gallery Liege in frame of #europaliageorgia. Fascinating collection of Tbilisi's one of oldest museums was brought outside???????? 4the very first time w/contemporary touch of ????????&???????? artists Tamuna Chabasvili & Jean Luc-Petit. pic.twitter.com/RLDqLsC7Pe
— Georgia in EU/Belgium (@GeorgiaInEU) October 15, 2023
The contemporary vision of Belgian artist Jean-Luc Petit will bring together cocoons, fabrics and silk threads from the collections of the Tbilisi Silk Museum to remind us of the deep roots of sericulture in Georgia. For this occasion, Georgian artist Tamuna Chabashvili has created “new work based on the themes of archives, traces and personal stories, like visual and tactile narratives” - a Europalia summary of the event says.
This Saturday, October 14, 'Soie აბრეშუმი', which takes a contemporary look at Georgian silk farming, opens at Les Drapiers, Liège ???? More info:https://t.co/emcn4KxeUu ???? © State Silk Museum pic.twitter.com/tUpCzVV4gY
— europalia (@europalia_) October 11, 2023
Europalia arts festival, a biennial multidisciplinary event highlighting artistic and cultural facets of select countries in its editions, will run until December 16, with the Europalia Georgian programme showcasing up to 60 events of film screenings, stage art performances, shows, exhibitions and literary presentations.