Marion Friedmann Gallery

Rug Spread

artwork made with an old salvaged rug, looking like the rug has been spread or smeared on the wall.

‘WALL SPREAD’/ ‘SMEARED RUG’
WALL HANGING / TAPESTRY

by NOÉMI KISS, Austria 2021

SIZE: W. 187 cm; H. 127 cm // W. 73.62 in; H. 50 in
MATERIAL: cut-out, overpainted, salvaged, oriental style rug, mounted.

 

Artwork created of a cut-out re-purposed oriental-style carpet. The rug looks like it had been smeared onto the wall. The artist Kiss has concentrated in her oeuvre on out-of-use rugs, damaged rugs, or the unwanted, where she applies her artistic interventions. She is a master in creating an impressive illusion, through overpainting or cutting the re-purposed Persian rugs. A rug can be decorative furnishing, a symbol for paradise, or a place holder for prayer. The artist uses this strong symbolism and marries it with interventions of her choice, like cutting, overpainting, or gilding.

Noemi is a material fetishist and she lets collide the grown with the made. She loads banal substances and materials that feel distant to art with a new meaning. The piece is an art-piece from a body of work, where the artist deliberately uses old, worn-out, sometimes damaged rugs.