The Botanical Garden of Universitat de València opens this weekend the exposure “Fibres vegetals, les plantes ens ajuden a viure” (“Vegetable fibres, plants help us live”), produced by the Botanical Garden of Barcelona. A new section has been added in Valencia dedicated to artists and ideas people that work the fibres in the 21st century with a vision that comes from the traditional view but is totally new.
The Botanical Garden of Universitat de València and of Barcelona, both members of the AIMJB, the Ibero-Macaronesian Botanical Garden Association, start this collaboration in the way of exposure under the title “Fibres vegetals, les plantes ens ajuden a viure.”
The exhibit has been created on the occasion of the International Year of the Natural Fibres, declared on 2009, and as their commissioners –Jordi Díaz and Jaume Pàmies– explain, it is about bringing to light the botany that is around us. In the words of Pàmies: “You wake up in the morning and have jam for breakfast, you put on a cotton T-shirt and you go to do the grocery with a straw bag, you stand on a wood desk, and I could continue until the night. Our life is surrounded of products that come from plants but we are not aware of that. What we want is to make that visible, in this case, in what concerns the fibres transformation. That is the philosophy of the exhibit.”
For this reason we will find fans, large baskets, espadrilles, baskets, ropes, cofins, nanses, bags, and brooms made from the plants selected for the exposure: esparto, hemp, jute, sisal, rush, linde, palm, rye, palm tree, date palm tree, osier, cane, hazelnut, chestnut, and birch.
An exposure where the sections The rope, a line; The cloth, a plan; and A basket, a volume are significant; all of them have a part called as the plant aiming, for example, after having seen that the linde is a perennial water plant very appreciated as a green filter in natural purification systems, to test how we sit on it after having worked on them to the chairs that we have always known.
Botany, techniques and traditional objects, applications, uses, and a bit of history, creating a maze where everything is related and showing how plants, after going through human activity, become objects that are an indispensable part of our lives.
Besides, in Valencia, the last part of the exposure, The studio of the artist, a space dedicated to creativity, wanted to be completed. In this case, designers and other creative people that show how fibres are worked nowadays and what is the result have been invited. Thus, the exposure initiates with the furniture, sculptures, carpets, lights, and many other objects of some Mediterranean artists that wanted to collaborate. Among them Josep Albert, Bendetta Tagliabue for Expormim, Balikipopoy, Ximo Roca for Point, Simone Simons, the studio Flou Flou, Vicente Calabuig for Boltambolta, Paqui Serrano, San Serif Creatius, the Valencian shop Simple, Belén Bayarri, Naturtex, and Royo Handmade. A section that could be completed throughout the period that the exposure is open.
“Fibres vegetals” can be visited until 25th October in the two rooms of the Botanic Garden dedicated to exposures, Sala d’Exposicions and Estufa Freda. The access is free to Sala d’Exposicions and free with the ticket to the Garden to Estufa Freda. The exhibit is open from Monday to Sunday from 10:00h (consult closing time according to the month)
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Last update: 26 de june de 2015 14:26.
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