Betzi Stein

Journal of Fantasy and Truth

2011

Hand embroidery. Part of Carol Powell's solo-show "Time to Make the Donuts." The series, titled after the 1980s cult-classic Dunkin' Donuts ad campaign, parodies nostalgic advertisi...

Hand embroidery. Part of Carol Powell's solo-show "Time to Make the Donuts." The series, titled after the 1980s cult-classic Dunkin' Donuts ad campaign, parodies nostalgic advertisi...

Hand embroidery. Part of Carol Powell's solo-show "Time to Make the Donuts." The series, titled after the 1980s cult-classic Dunkin' Donuts ad campaign, parodies nostalgic advertisi...

Hand embroidery. Part of Carol Powell's solo-show "Time to Make the Donuts." The series, titled after the 1980s cult-classic Dunkin' Donuts ad campaign, parodies nostalgic advertisi...

Oil paint and collage on wood panel Unique work Hand-signed lower right by the artist

Embroidered textile painting Hand sewed, unique, hand-signed by the artist Penelope or Parque of modern times, Barbara d’Antuono sews by hand like others recite mantras and decides ...

Embroidered textile painting Unique work Penelope or Parque of modern times, Barbara d’Antuono sews by hand like others recite mantras and decides nothing in advance. She lets images arise without any particular coherence with each other, but to which she gives substance in a kind of urgency, in the form of a strip not drawn but sewn. The exhibition, like the eponymous book, covers seven years of this assiduous and patient work through nearly 30 textile works, real freeze frames made of the emotions and memories of the artist, like so many portraits of humanity. . Her meeting in Haiti with Baron...

Embroidered textile painting Unique work Penelope or Parque of modern times, Barbara d’Antuono sews by hand like others recite mantras and decides nothing in advance. She lets images arise without any particular coherence with each other, but to which she gives substance in a kind of urgency, in the form of a strip not drawn but sewn. The exhibition, like the eponymous book, covers seven years of this assiduous and patient work through nearly 30 textile works, real freeze frames made of the emotions and memories of the artist, like so many portraits of humanity. . Her meeting in Haiti with Baron...