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La Kırmızı Installation

Bettina Franckenberg

Turkey

Installation, Textile on Other

Size: 126 W x 77.2 H x 1.6 D in

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Tissue of Life – a textile installation It’s the theme of life in balance with the cosmos, growing and maturing at all lifesteps that interests me. The idea started with the study of matriarchal mythology, one of the first answers humans developed to questions about the beginning of the world and the sense of life. In mankind’s imagination of the universe the three-shaped moongoddess is a symbol of life in all it’s aspects as well as of nature in it’s cycle. The white moon sickle is the symbol of the goddess in the shape of a girl - symbol for youth, innocence and spring. The red full moon is the symbol of her as a mature woman, goddess of love and fertility, who is reigning in summer, the climax of the year. The black sickle, or new moon, symbolizes the old woman shape of the goddess - as the death goddess, she rules the underworld and takes all life with her in autumn and winter and lets it rise again in springtime of the next year to continue the cycle of life. In my work these mythological colours – white, red and black – are both symbol carriers and design elements. The other colours and fabrics and the way of joining them together have also a certain symbolic meaning. One part of the installation is a long string which leads the visitor through the exhibition: it is a symbolic ‘lifethread’, made of handwoven silk and fabrics, that have long been part of my life and are full of memories, feelings and longings – joined together by hand. For me, sewing by hand is like meditation and is very important while creating the whole theme. The other installations are related to the whole project, but they are also independent artworks, inviting free association …

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Installation:Textile on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:126 W x 77.2 H x 1.6 D in

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Born february 3 1956 in Essen / Germany. Handcraft and artistic abilities were encouraged early in her parent's house. After graduating from college in 1975 she continued with her education in the field of occupational therapy. 1979 graduation and starting to specialize in psychiatry, supplementary qualification as psychodrama assistent - at the same time initiation to "patchwork". In 1982 she discovers the Mediterranean (living the first 2 years in Greece) as well as her "textile ambitions" - 1986 she opens her first exhibition in the Castle of St.Peter in Bodrum. Getting more and more involved in her art and her subjects of interest which are those like religions, philosophy, mythology and psychoanalysis she goes back to live in Berlin for some years - between 1989 and 1992 she works as an occupational therapist in psychiatry and organizes several textile-art exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Latvia and Turkey. Since 1992 Bettina Franckenberg lives permanently in Bodrum / Turkey and between 1994 and 2005 she has her own ATELIER-Gallery in the holiday-village "Sea-Garden" in Yalıçiftlik near Bodrum. She continues working as a freelance textile artist in her studio in Bodrum, Karakaya Sokak no 18. Since October 2008 Bettina Franckenberg is member of U.P.S.D. (International Plastic Arts Association of UNESCO).

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