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Presented today, the program of the fourth edition of what has remained an event of the European Capital of Culture Guimarães 2012, will run from September 1 to October 20 and consists of "various activities", international exhibitions involving more than 50 artists, artistic residencies and debates, for a "celebration of textile culture".
Among the various artists who will create and exhibit in Guimarães, the highlight of the organization goes to the American artist Ann Hamilton, who will present an intervention "on a large scale" so "d & # 39; express the interconnection of contemporary art and textiles with their territorial environment ".
"We are more ambitious, more ambitious, we expect more people to visit the exhibitions, we want to affirm Contextile as a meeting place for artists, linking art to culture and textiles", said Joaquim, artistic director of the event. Pine.
The 2018 program opens with the international exhibition, September 1, at Vila Flor Palace, bringing together 59 works by 52 artists, resulting in an open call involving over 800 proposals: " The works are a portrait of contemporary textile art in the national and international artistic panorama, coming from 40 countries, "explained the organization.
The" big news "of the edition of this year is the bet of an educational service with technical and creative workshops with the textile for the students of the 7th year.
Contextile will also occupy the manor of Santiago with the Fiber Art Fever !, which this year has France as a guest country, and where will be exhibited works of twenty or so artists, "mirror of the most dynamic and contemporary is created and produced from fiber and textile" in this country. 19659002] The Israeli artist Dvora Morag is another the "resounding names" of the event, and will exhibit at the Center for Art and Architecture its second participation in Contextile with an exhibition in situ, "Between Heaven and Earth".
Another "highlight" of this biennial are the seven artistic residencies, which will exhibit in the Convent of Santo António dos Capuchos artists and exhibitions that have created and produced works in jacquard, stamping or embroidery techniques.
In 2018, the Satellite Exhibition, in the House of Memory, is the result of two artistic residencies in partnership with the European platform Magic Carpets, which brings together 13 countries "focused on supporting the mobility of artists emerging ".
Contextile 2018 follows the line of previous editions and invited to participate in art schools with disciplines of textile techniques, challenging students, works that will be exhibited at the Institute of Design of Guimarães under the auspices of "Emergencies".
On September 2nd and 3rd, there will be "Textile TALKS", with artists selected by "open call", with debates and conversations integrated into the thematic concept of the biennale.
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