11/03/13  Maxine Kopsa

Seth Siegelaub, who was one of the key figures in Conceptual Art during the sixties, withdrew from the New York art scene in the early seventies. In relative seclusion, he started collecting textiles – rugs, tapestries, fabrics, embroideries, even hats – from all corners of the world. Soon, part of his extensive collection will be shown in public for the first time, in London.

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01/12/09  Dieter Roelstraete

London
Whitechappel Gallery
05/04/09 - 18/04/10

At the initiative of Goshka Macuga, the woven replica of Picasso’s Guernica from the UN headquarters in New York is temporarily hanging for a year in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, as décor in a space where people can organize free public gatherings upon request. This London tableau in turn served as the point of departure for a new tapestry that Macuga ordered woven for the Textiles exhibition in M HKA. Dieter Roelstraete wrote the following text.

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