Gloriously gravitating in space, the enormous and strange textile body of Royal Valkyrie revisits and reinterprets the palatial fashion, combining the luxury and the exuberance of floral brocades with the colours, motifs and techniques that are traditionally from Nisa, a small village in the Portuguese countryside renowned for the richness of its arts and crafts.
Royal Valkyrie opposes the Apollonian, rational and symmetrical organization with the Dionysian paradigm, the indiscipline of textures and the strangeness of the formless, imposing on the space the power of hedonism and sensualism of costumes.
© Luís Vasconcelos
© Luís Vasconcelos
© Luís Vasconcelos
Artwork Details
PRODUCTION DATE
2012
DIMENSIONS
780 x 560 x 860 cm
MATERIALS
Handmade woollen crochet, felt appliqués, fabrics, ornaments, inflatable, power supply unit, steel cables
NOTES
Artwork produced with the collaboration of Nisa's artisans and sponsored by Manufacture Prelle, Paris.
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