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MAK Vienna, 2014

Exhibition View

MAK Vienna, 2014

Mamluk Carpet

Füsun Onur

portrait, 2013

Savonnerie-Table Carpet with Flowers (detail)

Style of Louis XIII., France, Paris

Figdor Carpet

Carpet with Vases (detail)

Safavid Empire, South Iran, Kerman, 2nd half 17th c.

Exhibition View

MAK Vienna, 2014

Savonnerie Paravent Panels with Aesop Fable, Paris © MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen

Savonnerie Paravent Panels with Aesop Fable, Paris © MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen

Füsun Onur, Untitled

2013, Artistic Intervention for the MAK Permanent Collection Carpets

Carpet with Shrubs, Central Persia © MAK

Ostiran Animal Combat Carpet, East Persia © Lois Lammerhuber/MAK

Exhibition View © MAK

Exhibition View © MAK

Exhibition View © MAK

Exhibition View © MAK

Mamluken-Teppich | Methoden und Erkenntnisse der Restaurierung (english subtitles)

Kairener Osmane | Die osmanische Kunst erblüht (english subtitles)

Wiener Jagdteppich | Purer Luxus, jahrelange Arbeit (english subtitles)

Garten-Teppich / Figdor-Teppich | Teppiche zum Fliegen bringen (english subtitles)

Savonnerie-Tischteppich, Stil Louis XIII. | Restaurierung, Reinigung, Reparatur (english subtitles)

Carpets

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

MAK Permanent Collection

Carpets

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

For the MAK’s 150th anniversary, designer Michael Embacher has given the Permanent Collection Carpets a new spatial concept that integrates an artistic intervention by Turkish artist Füsun Onur. This new presentation features the carpets of the MAK Collection as components of an intercultural dialog, as elements of exchange both within Asia and between Asia and Europe. Collection objects from the Ottoman and Safavid Empires are joined here by a selection of European pieces, and other objects from the arts-and-crafts sphere interrelate with the carpets from their respective regions of origin, serving to place them in a multilayered formal context and to underline their historical authenticity.

The MAK’s collection of carpets numbers among the three most important such collections worldwide. Its core is formed by classical output from the 16th and 17th centuries, during which the great Islamic realms of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals experienced their golden ages. In addition to pieces from the Islamic world, the MAK is also home to a group of high-quality 18th-century carpets from the Savonnerie manufactory in France. Overall highlights include a unique silk Mamluk carpet, a Safavid hunting carpet, a carpet from Herat ornamented with spiraling tendrils, a figurative Indian piece from the era of Akbar, the Great, and the Savonnerie carpets of Emperor Josef II. The MAK’s collection came together less via systematic acquisitions and more due to the historically motivated integration of holdings, with each group originally having been compiled according to an independent set of criteria. The first carpet was purchased for the museum quite early on, in 1868—and by 1922, most of the items that comprise the present-day collection were already united beneath one roof. The most important ones were former imperial property.

The visualization of the closely interlinked geographic, stylistic, and cultural connections between Europe and both the Middle East and south-western Asia from the period between the 15th and 18th centuries is a central aspect of the display space’s curatorial reconception and redesign. In his architectural concept, Michael Embacher juxtaposes carpets of differing origins, highlighting their plasticity and fragility by using thin steel cables to weave them into his spectacular whole-room installation’s outer shell. Thus positioned at various heights, slightly tilted and turned, the individual objects seem to float within the space.


ARTISTIC INTERVENTION
FÜSUN ONUR

Füsun Onur (*1938, Istanbul) gives rise here to a beguiling interplay between worlds of ideas, cultures, and religion. The artist has fashioned an ephemeral female angel who floats level with the gallery, presiding over the collected objects as if sent as an all-uniting or all-questioning sign. In so doing, Onur liberates the figure of the angel—a protagonist common to the scriptures of the Tanakh, the Old and New Testaments and the Koran—from preestablished notions of global and intellectual territories in a gesture that is both conceptual and poetic.

Curator Barbara Karl, Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection
Design Michael Embacher
Artistic Intervention Füsun Onur, curated by Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection

Publication

The MAK Permanent Collection Carpets is accompanied by the MAK/GUIDE Carpets, edited by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Barbara Karl, texts by Barbara Karl, Edith Oberhumer, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Bärbel Vischer, and Angela Völker, as well as an interview with Michael Embacher, German/English, ca. 192 pages and appr. 100 color illustrations, Vienna / Munich-London-New York: MAK / Prestel Verlag, 2014. Available at the MAK Design Shop for € 9,90.

 

 

Publikationen

MAK/Guide CARPETS

MAK/Guide CARPETS published on the occasion of the reinstallation of the MAK Permanent Collection Carpets. German/English, 192 pages, appr. 100 color illustrations, 24 x 12,5 cm, paperback, Vienna / Munich–London–New York: MAK / Prestel Verlag, 2014

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MAK Vienna, 2014
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MAK Vienna, 2014
Mamluk Carpet
Mamluk Carpet
Mamluk Empire, Egypt, Cairo, after the 1st half 15th century, taken over from the Imperial Court in 1922
Füsun Onur
Füsun Onur
portrait, 2013
Savonnerie-Table Carpet with Flowers (detail)
Savonnerie-Table Carpet with Flowers (detail)
Style of Louis XIII., France, Paris
Manufacture du Louvre or de Chaillot, mid 17th century
Figdor Carpet
Figdor Carpet
Kerman garden carpet, Safavid Empire, South Iran, 1st half 17th century, purchased at the Albert Figdor auction in 1930
Carpet with Vases (detail)
Carpet with Vases (detail)
Safavid Empire, South Iran, Kerman, 2nd half 17th c.
Exhibition View
Exhibition View
MAK Vienna, 2014
<BODY>Savonnerie Paravent Panels with Aesop Fable, Paris © MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen</BODY>
Savonnerie Paravent Panels with Aesop Fable, Paris © MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen
<BODY>Savonnerie Paravent Panels with Aesop Fable, Paris © MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen</BODY>
Savonnerie Paravent Panels with Aesop Fable, Paris © MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen
Füsun Onur, Untitled
Füsun Onur, Untitled
2013, Artistic Intervention for the MAK Permanent Collection Carpets
<BODY>Carpet with Shrubs, Central Persia © MAK</BODY>
Carpet with Shrubs, Central Persia © MAK
<BODY>Ostiran Animal Combat Carpet, East Persia © Lois Lammerhuber/MAK</BODY>
Ostiran Animal Combat Carpet, East Persia © Lois Lammerhuber/MAK
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Exhibition View © MAK
<BODY>Exhibition View © MAK</BODY>
Exhibition View © MAK
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