Isabel Bürgin, Fritz Hauser
Petite Camargue, 2022
Ein Foto, zwei Web-Teppiche, eine Klangspur

Teppiche, je 157 x 265 cm, 7-farbig
Reine Schafwolle (50% Schweizer Wolle / 50%
Neuseeland Wolle), gesponnen und gefärbt im Prättigau (CH)
Schaftgewebe, handgewebt in Basel
Entwurf und Produktion: Isabel Bürgin 2011

🔊Klangspur, 2021 von Fritz Hauser


Isabel Bürgin
Petite Camargue, 2022

Auswahl Entwurfsprozess Teppiche „Petite
Camargue“ 2011, erstellt mit Excel
Digitalprint auf Tapete
90 x 400 cm


A warm summer afternoon. There is a shimmering heat haze in the air, but a cool rivulet gurgles promisingly in the shade. Fritz and I go for our first walk together in the Alsatian Petite Camargue. It was there that my eponymous photograph was taken. Inspired by this picture, and at Fritz’s request, we later worked collaboratively on the two carpets. The dobby loom produces predominantly rectangular and geometric patterns, depending on the type of weaving. It was not our intention to faithfully reproduce the original colors and shapes, but rather to create an abstract intricacy, associated with the feeling of wanting to be nestled into this dream landscape. Just like, upon prolonged viewing, it is possible to discover new layers and mysterious places of indefinable dimensions in the photograph, the carpet image, in its materiality, allows the viewer to move along its color connections, each time in a different way, and to find countless, fascinating pattern sequences.

Both carpets were woven by hand on one of my dobby looms. The characteristic feel of the finished fabric, similar to felt, is achieved through a specially developed washing process in an industrial washing machine. It causes the finished woven and cleaned piece to lose about 25% of its size while gaining density, stability, and a fluffy texture. (Isabel Bürgin)

The loom itself also became the sound source for Fritz Hauser’s Petite Camargue music. A loom comprises many different parts: wood, metal, cords, rakes—a complex array of sounds and noises. In dialogue with Isabel Bürgin, a multi-layered and condensed sound fabric has emerged, which not only reflects the carpets’ structure, but also incorporates the associations triggered in Fritz Hauser’s mind by the Petite Camargue photograph.



1985
Diplom Textildesignerin, Textilfachklasse, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel / CH
Lehrabschluss Handweberin, BIGA, Textilfachklasse, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel / CH

1986
Gründung eigenes Atelier in Basel / CH

1986 - 2021
Vorwiegend Produktentwicklung und Konzeption eigene Kollektion, zudem Auftragsarbeiten für Textilindustrie und andere Labels, Kooperationen mit anderen Designern, Lehre, Wettbewerbe, Kunst am Bau, Beratungen, Farbkonzepte

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