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Grayson Perry's largest-ever show ‘Smash Hits’ is now open (July 22 until November 12, 2023) at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. The exhibition covers Perry’s 40-year career, and several of the tapestries on display were made in collaboration with Factum Arte.
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Photo © Nick Mailer Photography
Ceramic bowls made by Factum Arte have been installed in the new courtyard garden at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. The garden has been designed by Tom Stuart-Smith Studio in collaboration with the artist Alison Turnbull.
Following the success of her exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofia, Leonor Serrano Rivas, working with Isabel Fernandez, Head of Tapestries at Factum Arte, continues to push the potential of digital jacquard weaving with a simple compositional structure of 1 yarn. The 24-piece series Polvo de estrellas involves transforming a flat image into a three-dimensional textile piece which responds to lighting. Details from both the front and the back of her new works from her Polvo de estrellas 3 series are remarkable.
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Jan Hendrix’s exhibition 'El poeta y el artista. Seamus Heaney & Jan Hendrix en Yagul' can be seen at Casa de Mexico, Madrid until September 10th. In 1999 Jan Hendrix and Seamus Heaney visited the archaeological site, Yagul in Mexico. The drawings Hendrix made on this trip were the source of inspiration for the 7-part series of tapestries that are on show at Casa de Mexico, made in collaboration with Factum Arte.
This exhibition also celebrates the close relationship that developed between the artist and the writer Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) over 30 years working on publications together. A book has been produced by Fundación Casa de Mexico en España to accompany the exhibition.
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Photo © Fundación Casa de Mexico
After its installation at Coal Drops Yard in 2022, Seated by Tschabalala Self is now on display at De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill on Sea until October 29th, with the kind support of Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
The 2,40m-tall bronze sculpture was commissioned by Avant Arte and produced by Factum Arte. Production started from a drawing by the artist, who closely worked with Factum Arte's 3D sculptor Irene Gaumé to rematerialise it as a three-dimensional piece, cast at Fademesa Foundry in Madrid.
Tschabalala Self: Seated, 2023, Installation view, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. Photography: Lineker Photography
Artist Marguerite Humeau spent several months of creative work with the team at Factum Arte to produce the eleven sculptures that form part of her solo exhibition ‘meys’ at White Cube Bermondsey (April 5 – May 14, 2023). Humeau’s vision pushed both human skill and material limitations, using mostly natural beeswax as well as microcrystalline wax, pigments, and ashes to find and refine the physical form of each piece. The sculptural works also gave life back to a 150-year-old walnut tree (cause of death: unknown).
Eusocial insects such as ants, termites and bees, and the complex cooperative societies behind their vast built structures and symbiotic relationships with other organisms, are the inspiration behind this production. ‘meys’ was presented at White Cube as ‘a journey, incorporating sound, moving image and sculpture and enlisting the collaboration of artificial intelligence as well as hives of skilled craftspeople in order to explore ideas of interdependence and collective intelligence’.
Factum Arte worked closely with Shirazeh Houshiary over a period of six months to materialise the new body of work for the artist's first solo exhibition in China. 'Rhizome' opened at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai from March 6th until May 7th 2023.
Nine architectonic aluminium sculptures formed the site-specific installation Maelstrom. The glass brick tower Pneuma and the two twin sculptures Just So were also on display.
Factum Arte's ongoing collaboration with photographer Bernd Nicolaisen involves experimenting with materials and new ways of transforming the complex subjects of his work into visual form. Since 2018, Bernd has come to Factum with a number of challenges that required creative printing solutions. We have solved these by bringing surface and form to frozen water in glaciers, meteors in deep space, rocks that are over two billion years old and now an ancient Bristlecone pine that is over 4800 years old.
At Factum Arte, the negatives of a series of photographs taken between 2005 and 2009 in Sierra Nevada were printed in layers onto gesso panels or transformed into depth maps that were CNC-milled in alabaster.
Victoria Miro just opened a solo exhibition showing a selection of tapestries by Grayson Perry. 'Posh Cloths' (February 3 - March 25) features nine textiles woven on Jacquard looms, made in collaboration with Factum Arte.
Works made in the last eight years are displayed alongside new productions such as Credit Card, A13, Van Eyck, Microprocessor (2022) and Sacred Tribal Artifacts (2023).
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Farah Behbehani has created a new body of work with the elevated printing system for a solo exhibition at Athr Gallery in Jeddah (January 23 - April 15, 2023). And Make Me Light! focuses on a series of embroidered designs made by the artist, which explore Kufic calligraphy and verse composition.
Over forty different designs were digitised using the Selene Photometric Stereo System in order to capture the subtle depth and artisanal qualities of the embroideries. The different verses were combined into twelve distinct compositions that were printed in relief at Factum Arte using the elevated printer. To the naked eye, the resulting print retains the detail of the stitches and beads.
Factum Arte has been working with Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi to transform a drawing into a 10m tapestry for the exhibition 'Painting Poetry' at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (December 15, 2022 - June 11, 2023). The display is the artist's first major solo exhibition in the UK.
Mosul: Panorama of Destruction started as a black-and-white drawing on paper produced in 2017, inspired by the tragic events in Iraq during the rise of the Islamic State and the conflict that followed. The qualities of al-Azzawi's penmanship were one of the features that Factum was able to rematerialise using woven threads of different tones and character.
Jan Hendrix just opened two new exhibitions in Mexico. His tapestry production plays a major role in both displays. The new Burton series of tapestries, woven at Flanders Tapestries on a Jacquard loom, faces a series of silkscreen prints of fractured landscapes. The four new tapestries are on display as part of the solo exhibition 'Atlas' organised at Casa de Cultura Citibanamex – Museo Casa Montejo in Mérida (until May 28, 2023).
The Mythological Landscapes of Yagul series was also on show at 'Seamus Heaney & Jan Hendrix en Yagul' at the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa) in Oaxaca (December 26, 2022 - April 16, 2023).
Factum Arte has worked with award-winning filmmaker, writer and artist Martha Fiennes for her new display of Yugen at Volte Art Projects (November 11 - December 12, 2022). Yugen is an AI-driven moving-image artwork that uses cutting-edge coding to create a continuous, self-selective and perpetually self-generating display.
Factum's 3D team collaborated with producer Peter Muggleston to generate a printable 3D file of one of the elements featured in the artwork: a spaceship, inspired by the mythological Indian vimanas. The 80cm-tall object is finished in holographic paint and displayed floating inside a Perspex case.
Works of elegant observational realism are focused on light and form – a constructivist aesthetic that Savelev credits to his 'methodical, scientific background'. These views of the artist’s hometown, Czernowitz in Ukraine, dating back to the 1980s, feel particularly poignant now.
- Michael Hoppen
The Ukrainian artist Boris Savelev is now a refugee in Spain. A new portfolio contains images selected by Boris that cover his creative life from 1971 until 2021, and was recently on display at Michael Hoppen Gallery's booth at Paris Photo 2022.
If you wish to purchase a portfolio, please write to: factum@factum-arte.com
As part of Avant Arte's public art programme, artist Tschabalala Self collaborated with Factum Arte on the creation of her first public work, installed at Coal Drops Yard, London, on October 5, 2022. The 2,40m-tall bronze sculpture started from a drawing by the artist, who closely worked with Factum Arte's 3D sculptor Irene Gaumé to rematerialise it as a three-dimensional piece, cast at Fademesa Foundry in Madrid.
Two other sculptures are also on display as part of the solo exhibition 'Home Body' (October 6 - December 17, 2022) at Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
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© Lucy Emms
Shezad Dawood worked with Factum Arte to create his largest sculpture to date. HMS Alice Liddell was unveiled on September 29th 2022 hanging at St Pancras station in London.
HMS Alice Liddell is a 5m-wide sculpture of an elaborate, Gothic revival-inspired spaceship that plays around the station's 19th-century design, blending it with a futuristic and steampunk fiction aesthetic.
Marina Abramović worked with Factum Arte on new site-specific performance-based works for her solo exhibition 'Gates and Portals' (24 September 2022 - 5 March 2023) at Modern Art Oxford, following her research residency at the Pitt Rivers Museum during the summer of 2021.
The concept behind Portal stems from the idea of physical and spiritual transition, which translated into a 297cm-tall portal adorned with 190 selenite crystals jutting from its inner sides. A custom circuit of LED panels, designed by Factum Arte's engineering team, powers the light diffused through the minerals behind the black-painted steel cladding. More on the project
Photography by Thierry Bal. © Modern Art Oxford
Factum Arte worked with Christian Andersson to create Primer for his solo exhibition 'What has yet to take shape will protect me' (22 September - 29 October, 2022) at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art in Lisbon.
Primer started with creating a 3D model of a commercial all-in-one printer, which was scanned using a white light scanner in Factum Arte's studio. The 3D model was then rematerialised as a positive cast in terracotta, which the artist physically manipulated, ripping out its internal workings with his hands. After recording this mutilated clay doppelgänger using photogrammetry, the 3D model was then digitally ‘refined’ before 3D printing and painting.
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