House of Ita

REVERIES in NATURE

Tapestry

By subverting the original traditional imagery of an old tapestry,

Ita rewrites the fabric’s narrative with mixed mediums like paint, thread,

mettalic foil, collaging fabrics and branches with dryed flowers.

“ Reveries in Nature “ Tapestry breaths life within a delicately mysterious

iconography of Nature, infused with a sense of unreality and surprise,

inverting the idea of classical tapestry chronicals pattern and instead focusing

on single motifs to be embellished and creating a whole new context.

The neutral, pastoral and often bland scenes and colours of the original

tapestry are converted in modern, bold, daring, romanticly surreal visual

narrative of Nature.

The tapestry is a visual tridimensional poem, a narration and reflection of an

imaginary fantastic New World born from a measured contamination of

traditional and contemporary, old and new fabrics and elements , in a game of

union and contrasts.

Tapestries are the heart of Ita’s work because as the artist sayes :

“ The absolutely unlimited interplay of pattern, color and texture – there is no

other medium where this Trinity is so fully realized.”

TAPESTRIES AND ARTISTIC TEXTILES

Tapestries are the heart of my work because of the absolutely unlimited interplay of

pattern, color and texture – there is no other medium where this Trinity is so fully

realized.

The aim of my work is subverting the original traditional imagery and rewriting the

fabric’s narrative with mixed mediums like thread, mettalic foil, paint and collaging

fabrics..

What I intend is to inverse the idea of classical tapestry chronicals pattern and

instead focusing on single motifs to be embellished and creating a whole new

context.

The neutral, pastoral and often bland scenes are converted in modern, bold, daring,

surprising, romanticly surreal almoast fantastic new world.

The normality and quietness of the traditional imagery are covered with trees made

of pearls, flying jeweled birds, animals dressed in patterned fabrics, water made of

chains, ladies and their loving man dressed with laces, metalic foil, tree dimensional

flowers, popping forests made of vintage jewels .

I am very much into the spontaneity of the process – most of my work happens very

much in the moment.

It is a slow process that resembles a new beginning, building a new relationship that

needs time to mature, to open and show its new unique identity.

As every tapestry is unique.