Monika Fioreschy: Fields of Flow

Austrian artist Monika Fioreschy’s impressive body of work in the tradition of the art of weaving.

From silicone tubes to paint, paper, and threads, Monica Fioreschy has devoted her fifty-year artistic career to the discovery of new forms of expression in weaving. In addition to her textile woven pieces, this book leads us through the artist’s other work groups, often completely heterogeneous, and presents recent upcycled works created from older objects.

Fabric, which usually provides the background for paintings, becomes the object of the picture in Fioreschy’s works. Horizontal lines of color flow through her screened picture spaces, which she always colors and weaves herself. Sometimes these abstractions are broken up by slits or acquire sculptural characteristics because of the silicone tubes, evocatively filled with blood or plant extracts. For her latest works, she translates older works with nails and threads to create something new, thereby bringing them into the state of experience of today.

Uta M. Reindl is an art critic, curator, translator, and a member of the German section of the International Association of Art Critics.