Contemporary Textiles - The fabric of Fine Art
feature about textiles at the cutting edge in Blackdog Publishing book. Contribution by Bradley Quinn and Janis Jefferies.
'Monika Auch's medical background is evident in her detailed textile work which is often suggestive of the growth patterns found through the lens of a microscope. The work feels both startlingly real and somehow fragmented, expressing the bare amounts of detail required for the viewer to recognise form and narratives. The clash of digital and tactile methods in Auch's work heightens the material impact of the viewing experience, a combination of traditional, time-consuming methods and contemporary, instantaneous technology.
For Auch the worlds of art and medicine are inextricably bound together with both professions requiring the same core skills: a knack of understanding humans and their environment, heightened haptic senses and well-developed spatial orientation.
"After six years of art practice, a symbiosis between these skills has grown, I am a true hybrid- a mixture of Science and Art." Auch makes no distinction between the various forms of her creative expression. The success of her work appears to stem from this unlikely pairing of interests - as Auch states, "I do not think that art, intuition and science are separate ways of thinking." More than that, her unique viewpoint lends her work a refreshingly original perspective, one that is as dramatic as it is detailed, approaching a variety of themes from multiple perspectives and areas of human enquiry.'
'Artists in this volume are pushing the boundaries of traditional categories of fine art practice, and in the process are producing some of the most important, inspiring and evocative work being done today, forever cementing textiles' place at the heart of contemporary art. 56 artists including Lia Cook, Rosemarie Trockel, Tracey Ermin, Matthew Barney and Yinka Shonibare are featured in the book.'
Nadine Modem, editor
photographs: details of work
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