The paintings, woven at first glance, are just a colorful texture, but when you get closer to the details you realize a whole history of the region's heritage. This young French artist Sebastien Curtie, who presented his paintings woven through the Porte art gallery under the title "Totem" Weaving to the capital of Abu Dhabi to provide woven panels tell the history of the world, each bearing the name of a country, which Corti wanted to tell the country through strings of gold and silver, and is not surprised the existence of a tape also woven in an Indian fabric that Corti wanted to say that India Of the countries that export the drug, it is possible to know Many of which are known by many, but they are alive in the research of Curti, who embodied Palestine with green threads as if to say the most beautiful trees and plants there, and we see Iraq in its fabric mixed with radiant colors in a diverse civilization. .
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"The small size of the longitudinal panels is due to the fact that the artist Kurti, who works on a spinning machine, does not exceed the length of the length of the paintings. The size of those paintings ». She added: "This is a great effort. Every string has an indication of something that goes back to the history and nature of the country." Kurti did not visit any Arab country in the paintings, but when we first hosted him in Dubai and now in Abu Dhabi, Arabic, so he did his own research, and produced this beautiful historical fabric ». "Corti is a young artist, his main work is knitting, he moved from Paris to New York, he studied art, fashion design and textiles, so this work is the product of all his art."
The fabric speaks
In his official statement to his exhibition in Dubai, Corti said: "In these works, I give the fabric a chance to speak." A phrase we actually see, and we see his woven paintings, are the same shape and the same length, but each has its own story. The difference combines different cultures that converge even with a string of gold and silver. In a painting from Japan, Corti focused on gold threads to tell the story of that rich country with gold and its uniqueness in making gold paper. In contrast, he sees cinnamon sticks in a thread in Iraq. He simply makes his paintings with materials exported by each country to the world, and this is what brings together humanity and brings them closer together, and man begins to know who lives away from him or close to him through what he tastes and what he sees in the industry of each country.
Precision in manufacture
Each line in each plate bears the name of a different country, giving a sense of precision and effort, threaded strings that do not resemble each other's thread, each row tells a story, gives an educational, educational and artistic profile. You taste the art visually and walk with a story you tell about framed text in a neat wooden box, It makes the visitor dive into the culture of each country, and the meaning is that you rejoice visually and come back with historical information you may not know.
since childhood
Corti grew up in a small town called Limoges in France, famous for ceramics and handicrafts, so Corti was surrounded by art since childhood. At the age of 17 he decided to move to Paris to join the National University of Fine Arts, a famous fashion and textile school where he built his relationship with fibers and textiles With all the different characteristics of textiles, he decided that the fabric would be the way to art and to express his thoughts. Corti then moved to the Institute of Fashion Technology (FIT) in New York, USA, to study the design of surfaces and fabric. Throughout his career, he has worked with professors, such as Dominique Flicker, a historian of art and fashion, and Ludwig Edelkort, one of the leading forecasters in fashion.