Validiction Room Westpfalzklinikum / Abschiedsraum Westpfalzklinikum Kaiserslautern

Last Thursday I brought the three pieces for the Valediction Room to Kaiserslautern. There they will be stored till the hole Pathology will start to work in the new rooms.

During creating the hole pieces - 3 times 90 x 170 cm - different emotions came up. What will come after death? Fears about the own death..., inner tension about working correctly the first sold piece.....

At the end the outcome was professional. I feel free and as well tired.

Here the three pieces, photographed at home. Photos of the hole room will follow.

The upper part is nuno-felt (silk chiffon with Merino wool). The part beneath is made by threads and free hand machine sewing.

communication - prism 2013, London

`liminal´ prism  2013, London
crossing the threshold

Prism was installed by Julia Caprara and I was proud when she asked me to become a member in 2005. So my first year was 2006. Now in 2013 I present my work with the title "communication" in the Mall Gallery.

The acrylic photo shows the moving by the communicating people during a conversation. The different distances tell about the relationship of the talking person, symboled as vessels out of paper. The gap between the two is the remaining space between the both.

During the exhibition I met two members of my BA group and there was time to talk about our work as well as other artistic questions.

I got aware that the next stage could be to fill up the vessels - with love, warmness....... which material ? How? It will come up....

Thanks a lot to my English friends for all they gave and have done to me ....

Denise Jones, Val Cross and Marilyn Hall from my BA showed her work as well:

                                          Denise Jones

                                          Val Cross

Continuum Exhibition in Herxheim, Germany

Today I brought down the rests of our exhibitions. It was a special experience to bring down all these art pieces in just one hour. To installe all our work we needed 6 hours and had been a group of 12 persons.

The response to our exhibition was wonderful. Yesterday I had a phone call of a woman - I don´t know  her - she wanted to tell me how wonderful the exhibition was.

To my work I became wonderful feedbacks. Thanks for that.

                                               Monika Brückner, Flying Family Tree, 2012

It was a wonderful experience to have some of our group here in Germany. At least we had not enough time to speak about art but we had lovely wine tasting, meals, partys ........ Thank you for your coming!

Here some photos of the exhibition. For myself it was the best presentation after London and Toronto.

                                   
                                          Denise Jones, Considering Pattern Darning, 2012

       
                                                Ingrid Lincoln, Place: a perfect Landscape, 2012

                   
                                             Vicki Jenkins, Feminity, 2012 (at the wall)
                                              Val Cross, Collection , 2012 (on the plinths)

                                      Marilyn Hall, Freedom is Choice : Choice is Freedom, 2012
               

                                                           Jean Kirk, Untitled, 2012

                                                       Lesley Turner, Home, 2012

                                                          Val Cross, Collection, little Sphaers, 2012

                                           
                                               Vicki Jenkins, Feminity (two of twenty), 2012

                                              Judy Martin, Simplicity Monumental, 2012

                                       

               
                                                Caroline Hibbs, Make Gloves not War, 2012

What will come next - ideas are born: Germany, Herxheim in two years with new work and Winnipeg perhaps in 3 years!!!

Continuum is going on

wonderful input during the stay in Toronto

During our visit in Toronto and Oakville we had the possibility to see wonderful exhibition.
Most impressed I was by the World of Thread exhibition: "Quiet Zone" The Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Park, Oakville.

                                          view into the exhibition

                                                    Marjolein Dallinga, exhibition: de rerum natura
                                                   - I love the colour, the way of making - the joy in life

                                                    Wendy O'Brien, exhibtion: Momento mori

I felt so deeply impressed - and now I think I know more about why - the bird, the cage the nest inside, the end and at the same time the new beginning I love this piece. The deep humor and the knowledge about things..................
I did a leporello with a similiar theme - birds were stitched and could fly away into a new live....

Just some more photos from the town, museums.........

It was a wonderful time with my husband, looking at all these wonderful places, to meet our group, feeling coming together....

                    pieces from the Textile Museum, Toronto and the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto

                                         town - shops - eating - color - life ...................................

and wonderful inuit art: 

                                  
                                               Karoo Ashevak, exhibition place in the Museum of
                                               Contemporary Art, Toronto

BA London - Toronto exhibition - Herxheim, Germany exhibition

now 5 month are gone and a lot of things happened.
In June my degree show opened at Middlesex University London. After 6 years distance learning my student group and I installed the BA show in the University Gallery.
I have to thank my children who helped to instal my flying family tree and preparing the exhibition space.

                                                    "flying family tree", Monika Brückner
                                                    June 2012

I feel very proud having achieved a first degree at the end. The interview was very interesting and I could provide links to the Documenta 2012 in Kassel, Germany and it´s theme about memory, the possibility to come over hurtings and finding new ways.

After this intensive time of studying I had to order my home and install my speech therapy office again.

In the end of October 2012 my student group and I were invited to present our work during the world of thread festival in Oakville, Canada in the Town Hall.

My husband came with me to help to install - but we had totally other options for presenting. Here the solution - which satisfied myself at the end. It brought a bigger distance to the piece itself, made it more common and I feel now there can be developed a new piece for the future.

                                                    "Flying Family Tree 2-Toronto"
                                                    Monika Brückner, November 2012

The acrylic cubes formed a distance to the piece, the inner meaning at to myself. But it was the first time we had the possibility to look into the vessels and look into their inner live.

The next exhibition will be in Herxheim, Germany my hometown. Two of the Candian girls will come over and most of the English artists. We will celebrate our group "continuum".

Now I have to begin to think about PRISM London 2013 with the theme: "liminal".

5 weeks till the BA show

Doing the last vessels I become a bit nervous. Will the installation work like I have it in my mind? The definitely security about this is definitely given in London in the gallery. 

What will come afterwards - provide the memory work a possibility for future ideas? Paper - printed - stitched.....? who knows. 

Let´s start the finish!!

no PRISM but concentration to BA show

The decision to cancel PRISM is a good one. The wanted theme "hidden places" would need a change in the developed vessels - but they have to be like they are.

So I started to stitch the first vessel for the family tree - my grand grand mothers (fathers side). By the research to her person it get obvious there are no items - no memories than some photos. There she is sitting in a wheel chair in the 30th of the last century. Short time later she died at blood anemia. Even my aunt - her grand daughter has no memories. She only remembers her grand father - a very polite man - and the knowing they had a good relationship.

The stitching was formed by this emptiness - little stitches - going out of the form - a wheel chair?!?
I will let it grow a bit more and than start the next one.

These experiences underline the important knowing that it is absolute necessarily to remember to understand the present and form the future.

The 27. January was the memorial day of the liberation of Auschitz. In the German Bundestag Marcel Reich Ranicki hold a speech about his experiences during being the secretary of the obman in the Warschauer Ghetto. This was a deep impression. 91 years old he is one of the last survivals of the Holocaust. His profession was literature ciritc and writer.
He wrote his memories which were filmed for the TV. Here a photo from the film with Matthias Schweighöfer.

Will go on working .......