Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, currently at the Museum of Modern Art, is an expansive exhibition featuring around 150 works that explore weaving's role in abstraction. Curated by Lynne Cooke, the show highlights a resurgence in weaving practices among artists, emphasizing the complexity of the skill and its historical significance to abstract art. Variations in exhibition presentations due to gallery spaces and conservation needs have led to unique iterations, with particular attention at MoMA given to the museum's connection to the Bauhaus movement.
"I was interested in why it was weaving rather than sewing or the domestic crafts. The skill sets in weaving are very complex to learn and do."
"The more I looked into it, the more I realised that it's there from the beginning - in the histories of abstraction and canonical histories that come from things like metaphysics, or Mondrian or Malevich."
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