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A14 LOCAL
Tuesday 5 March 2019

Atelier ’89 presents 2 workshops for the month of March

ORANJESTAD — Ateliers ‘89 located at Dominicanessen- ing techniques and by manip-
Academia di Bellas Artes straat 34, Oranjestad. ulating the plastic you will end
Aruba presents 2 workshops up with a tactile 3D object.
for the month of March. The ‘What a plastic!’ by Margheri- Throughout the workshop, you
invited international guests ta Soldati will also reflect on the value of
are Lyubov Matyunina from This will take place from touch and tactility in art and
Russia who will be presenting March 18th till April 11th. architecture, so that the final
the workshop “Carpetologia” During the four weeks of the sculpture will not only meant
and also from Italy Margherita workshop, you will create a to be looked at but also be
Soldati who will be present- tactile sculpture by using only touched. On the opening
ing the workshop called Cu- plastic waste collected from night of April 11th you will ex-
anto Plastic”. The workshops Aruba. By mixing colors and hibit your sculpture in a group
will take place ta Atelier ’89 shapes, trying different build- show!

BIO
Margherita Soldati (1991, IT) graduated last summer at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Now she runs her artist practice in Amsterdam. At the moment she is represented
by Mediamatic in Amsterdam and she is exhibiting at Museum Jan Cunen in Oss.
On the side, she is teaching workshops in a textile school called diytextileschool.
Before graduating from Gerrit Rietveld Academie Margherita also graduated from
Industrial Design in Turin, she worked together with Maurizio Montalti at Officinal
Corpuscoli, with Mediamatic, Waag Society, De Appel and with a few more Dutch
institutions. She exhibited her works in Holland, Italy and Germany. She also worked
for over a year as event manager ’t Fijnhout a cultural centre in Amsterdam where
art, music, and theatre were being staged.

‘Carpetologia’ a workshop by Russian artist Ly-
ubov Matyunina
This will also take place from March 18th till April
11th.
In this workshop you will make carpets with dif-
ferent materials that have to do with nature,
architecture, folk stories, myth and legends of
Aruba. Since Aruba has mystical background
and the art of storytelling is quite visible. You will
have to collect the stories and the fairy tales of
the land and visualize them into the carpets.

Theme: Fairy tales/folk tales of Caribbean, myth
and fantasies.
Goal: To visualize folklore heritage and translate
stories into carpets.
Technique: Patchwork, embroidery, applica-
tion, stamps/printing, linocut, painting and pho-
tography.

Workshop plan:
week 1: Introduction; collecting stories/ fairy
tales and myth.
week 2: Visualisation of the stories. Trying out dif-
ferent techniques.
week 3: Creating the carpets. Composition, col-
ors, storytelling through the carpet.
week 4: Finalizing of the carpets, installation of
results.

Bio
Lyubov Matyunina (1985, Russia) holds a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam where she studied at the VAV- moving image
department. She previously visited courses “World politics” at Gotland University, Sweden, and at International State University Foreign Affairs,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, in Moscow. She holds a MA Journalistic from the Russian State University. Since 2012 the artist has been a
guest artist at One Minutes Junior in Baku (Azerbaijan), Bishkek (Kyrgystan) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and several other countries. Her solo show
Carpetologia was presented at W139, Polar room in Amsterdam (2017). Her film “Who can be happy and free?” was very successful and won
the TENT Academy Public Choice Award in Rotterdam (2014) and was part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015).
She participated at group exhibitions and festivals in Moscow, Warsaw (2014) and Stuttgart ( 2017), and she exhibited at Prospects & Con-
cepts, the exhibition of the Mondriaan Fund for young talents at ART Rotterdam (2018).

For more information send an email at elvis@ateliers89.com or call 565-4613.q