Ritzi Jacobi
Born 1941 in Bucharest, Romania; 1960-66 studies Textile at the Art Institute in Bucharest; since 1970 lives in Germany.
1969-1995 participation at 11 Biennales Textile et art contemporain,Lausanne, Switzerland
1976 Staedtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
1978 Museum Bellerive Zuerich, Switzerland
1979 Soft Art, Kunsthaus Zuerich, Switzerland
1980 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1981 Detroit Institute of Arts ( in collaboration with P.Jacobi ), USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
County Museum Los Angeles, USA
1984 Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1994 The Impulse to Abstract, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Texas, USA
1995 Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany
1999 Daegu Textile Art, South Korea
2003 Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 Transformations, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2006 Beyond Weaving, Gallery Browngrotta, Wilton, USA
Transylvania VI
Transylvania VI is the last piece of a series of works with the same title. They were made accomplished in the 1960´s and early 1970´s. Significant for that period was the favoured use of self designed textile cables in various lengths and thicknesses which were embedded in a simultaneously woven homogeneous surface (untreated goat hair and horse hair ). My vivid interest was to create a big scale work with opulence, underlining the interaction between fragments of extensive flowing and distracted parts, for example, fringed edges and the restrained colouration in design. Variations of density and transparency, lightness and darkness play a key role in the expression of a never ending landscape. Beyond the knowledge of established weaving techniques, my general working process has always been guided by other disciplines, such as drawing and sculpture, which gave me a new perception of Fibre Art.
Sketch - Sketch for Textile - Drawing
The three drawings are merely artist´s impressions with autonomous character which however sometimes lead to visualisation of my textile works.
