Anna Regős
F U T U R I S M O textile collection “As 2009 was the year of Futurism, I designed a collection of samples which includes ten samples reflecting this style. The collection is black and white flavoured with the pattern of playful geometry and “kaleidoscope effect”. Four different types of patterns were finally woven, these are BUMP, FAN, CROSSING, and TRIANGLE. The jacquard textile is 55% flax and 45% cotton. These two qualities (thinner and thicker) provide the wide variety of its use. FUTURISMO textiles can be used as furniture textiles, curtains, pillow cases, tablecloths, etc.” Anna Regős on show:100% Design stand A38 "madeinhungary" Earls Court London 22-25 September 2011
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A N N A R E G Ő S textile artist 1960 born in Budapest 1985 graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts (now Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design) in textile design 1987-89 teacher then assistant professor at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts 1990 member of the Association of Hungarian Artists and Designers 1998 founded Palmetta Design Gallery together with her husband, István Regõs “Which is the world of patterns that is characteristic of the end of the 20th century and what kind of material can be used to represent it in an exact way?” This idea – expressed by Anna Regős as her artistic statement - appeared in the program of the artist’s first exhibition in 1991. It is an idea whose meaning continues to perplex, and its pattern titillations persist, even on the threshold from the 20th into the 21st century. But now those geometric, symbolic pattern titillations have renounced their decorative approach, that was confined to the realm of two dimensions, for three-dimensional space as Anna Regős began to carry out her artistic agenda by employing application, folding and several other distinctive techniques. In her three-dimensional reliefs, she applied computer parts and geometrically shaped metal elements in addition to linen. What are the sources that give rise to the motifs of this pattern world communicated through textiles? For Regõs, they are traditional, universal symbols, mainly the patterns of Japanese and African art, in addition to geometrical forms. In her abstract compositions, selected motifs are arranged as infinitely repeated patterns, their inner structure grounded in the rules of geometry. Her works can be found in several Hungarian, European and American private collections." ##GALLERY##2##9## MAIN FOREIGN EXHIBITIONS (1985-2011) AUSTRIA Vienna - Collegicum Hungaricum Eisenstadt - Museum Österreischer Kultur POLAND Lódz - Textile Museum GERMANY Berlin - Hungarian Embassy Hamburg - Kunstgewerbe Museum Frankfurt - Tendence 2008, Ambiente 2009 SWITZERLAND Islikon Meisterschwanden Genf - EuropArt 2009 USA Washington - The World Bank FRANCE Paris - Maison & Objet 2010, 2011 Regős Anna on Artportal (hungarian): http://artportal.hu/lexikon/muveszek/regos_anna