{"id":3319,"date":"2022-10-30T21:53:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T05:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2022-11-01T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T08:07:29","slug":"value-and-transformation-of-corals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/value-and-transformation-of-corals\/","title":{"rendered":"Value and Transformation of Corals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Five Fathoms Deep” \u2013 crochet coral wall painting at Museum Frieder Burda, 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2022,\u00a0Museum Frieder Burda in Germany presented a museum-wide retrospective<\/a> of the Crochet Coral Reef<\/em>\u00a0highlighting the project’s mathematical, scientific, and environmental dimensions. Titled Wert und Wandel der Korallen<\/em> (Value and\u00a0Transformation\u00a0of Corals<\/i>), the exhibition surveyed the 17-year history of this interdisciplinary, global, eco-artistic happening by turning the gallery into a submarine paradise. Along with the existing collection of crochet reefs by Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim, were several new sculptures by the Wertheim’s, including two delicate Nudibranch Reefs<\/em> and a large-scale embroidered\u00a0Sampler<\/em> honoring the Reef<\/em> project’s most dedicated contributors.<\/p>\n

Also on display was a vast community-made reef constructed with the people of Germany and consisting of over 40,000 coral pieces. By far the largest crochet reef to date, this\u00a0B<\/em>aden-Baden Satellite Reef\u00a0<\/em>was a unique curatorial collaboration between the Wertheim sisters and 4000+ crocheters across the German speaking world. The resulting constellation of sculptures included six giant, three-dimensional coralline islands each composed from thousands of coral pieces, and a series of wall-sized coral “paintings” in which crochet pieces were employed like daubs of paint to create stunning two-dimensional reliefs. These powerful woolen tableaus simultaneously reference Claude Monet’s water-lilies, the painterly chaos of Jackson Pollock, and traditional communal quilt-making.<\/p>\n

Exhibition Dates:<\/strong> January 29 \u2013 June 26, 2022
\nLocation:<\/strong> Museum Frieder Burda, Baden Baden, Germany<\/p>\n

The exhibition is accompanied by a 250 page full-color book, published in German and English.<\/em><\/p>\n

Exhibition webpage + photo gallery:<\/a><\/em>
\nBook<\/em> webpage:<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy Book Now <\/a><\/strong>at Artbook.com<\/a>
\nBuy Book Now <\/a><\/strong>at Bookshop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a>

Book cover “Margaret and Christine Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals” Weinand Verlag, 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In 2022,\u00a0Museum Frieder Burda in Germany presented a museum-wide retrospective of the Crochet Coral Reef\u00a0highlighting the project’s mathematical, scientific, and environmental dimensions. Titled Wert und Wandel der Korallen (Value and\u00a0Transformation\u00a0of Corals), the exhibition surveyed the 17-year history of this interdisciplinary, global, eco-artistic happening by turning the gallery into a submarine paradise. Along with the existing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}