Willem de Rooij has been producing hand woven, abstract tapestries since 2009. For Rye Wonk he will present a series of new weavings, where the interplay of warp and weft, the weave, the tension, the materiality and thickness of the threads, their colors and textures, are all of crucial importance.
The fact that they are installed on walls makes it hard to categorize them: textile compositions or pictorial objects?… These works have not arisen from a particular interest in textiles or craft skills, for instance, but are instead embedded in a multifaceted practice which has for over two decades analyzed the conventions of presentation and representation and assesses the tension between socio-political and autonomous image production.
Petzel
Regrown Lab . 2015
Large Yellow . 2015
Large Pink . 2015
Rye Wonk . 2015
