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 EmbacherArtistic 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.
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