Tunisian artist Safia Farhat's artwork at Venice Biennale
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- 21 Apr 2022
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Tunisian artist Safia Farhat's artwork will be on display at the 59th International art exhibition - Venice's Biennale, which is opening on April 23 and runs until November 27. Farhat will be present with a piece called 'Gafsa & ailleurs' (Gafsa and elsewhere, 1983) a monumental tapestry (diptych, 320 x 294 cm e 293 x 167cm) on display at the Arsenale.
Chosen by Cecilia Alemani, curator of Biennale Arte 2022 for this year's theme, Il latte dei sogni (the milk of dreams), comes from the museum dedicated to the artist, hosted from 2016 in the Centre des Arts Vivants (Center of Arts) in Radès (9 km south-east of the capital, Tunis), her native city. With bright colors, geometric and figurative motifs, zoomorphic signs and anthropomorphic figures, fabrics with tinted, hand-woven wools, 'Gafsa & ailleurs' is inspired by Tunisian artisanal crafts while introducing elements of modernity.
Born in 1924 in Radès and a pioneer of visual arts in Tunisia, Safia Farhat was an eclectic artist: designer, painter, ceramist, weaver and decorator, she dedicated her life to the valorization of traditional techniques and to Tunisia's cultural heritage, as well as to teaching art.
She was the only woman, in 2949, to be part of the Ecole de Tunis (school of Tunis), an art movement mainly of European origin born in the 1930s, which included Italian painters like Moses Levy (Tunis, 1885-Viareggio, 1968) and Antonio Corpora (Tunis, 1909 - Rome, 2004). Read More…
