PROGRAMME FITE 2019

For this future 2019 edition, FITE’s teams decided to offer something new, namely itinerant FITE through all Romania.

From Baita city to the capital Bucharest and even until Black Sea in Constanta, discover different places of culture such as Baita Textile Museum, Museum of Brasov Urban Civilizations or even Bucharest NOD.

See the FITE program Deviations in PDF(french version)

See the FITE program Deviation in PDF (english verion)

See the FITE program Deviation in PDF (roumanian verion)

BAITA

EXHIBITION OF WOOL BLANKETS 

Opened in 2017, Baita textile museum was founded by Florida Zaharias, formerly curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Textile Conservation Department.

WORKSHOP

Workshop on wood cut (xilogravura) « Ancestral Symbols of Padureni Area.» Coordinator, Prof. Mircea Lac

VISITS

Visit of the exhibition “Wool and Water—Woven Felted Blankets of Balkan—Carpathian Region”, Florica Zaharia, curator, Muzeul Textilelor’s owner

The exhibition “Decades of Visual Memory-Photographs by Ana and Gheorghe

INSTALLATION – the “Alba” (white) collection by Mirela Traistaru, artist, made in France and Romania

MEETINGS

Exchanges and discussions to define a European project: the International Meeting of Extraordinary Textiles (RITES)

GARDEN PARTY A HALDINA

  •  SCOALA GIMNAZIALA BAITA

Presentation of the “Urban thread”, a nomadic textile architecture designed by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Clermont-Ferrand and the Charles Perrault elementary school in Clermont-Ferrand – a proposal made to the pupils of the school of Baita, «  Scoala Gimnazială Baita » to draw their landscape on the Windows of this architecture, by Crisan Dorin, director

BRASOV

VISITS

Visit of the black church, cathedral of Brasov city and visit by M Christine Bouilloc, the director of the Bargoin Museum and Mr Ziegler, an historien of the exhibited collection of muslim prayer rug. Built by germanic community, it is the most important gothic monument of Romania and Lutheran place of worship.

EXHIBITION DEVIATIONS

At the heart of the 4th edition of Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires (FITE), Bargoin Museum hosts the Deviations exhibition which offers an original choice of more than eighty textiles, photographic and videographic artworks, coming from lenders, artists, collectors, public institutions and galleries from all over the world.
Four thematics – transgression, circulation, pile-up and transcendence – govern the exhibition and allow to point out society’s stakes, throughout a medium, textile.
Among those thematics are tackled many questions, such as standards and non-standards, liberty’s research often linked to the notion of egality, identity within migrations and interbreeding, movements of humans but also of know-how, materials and designs.
Artworks of creators from the five continents are inviting the public to a reflection, throughout different forms of expression where textile is at the center of creation.

INSTALLATION

The exhibition “Dentelles en voyage” of the Retournac lace factory museum

MEETINGS

In ethnography museum, in the library, meetings with researchers, historians from Romania’s textile area.

SIBIU

  • THE ROMANOFIR SPINNING MILL IN TALMACIU

MEETING AND DISCOVERY

Fashion show :

  • Featuring ancient swimsuits specially created by Unda Popp, director of the design section Unarte Bucharest
  • Parade of aquatic dresses made by the fashion designer Alina Gurguta at the swimming pool of the Spinning Mill

 

BUCHAREST

  • THE ROMANIAN PEASANT MUSEUM

Visit and discover the museum’s textile collections, Dr. Virgil Nitulescu, directeur

  • CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARTS IN BUCHAREST

INSTALLATION – CORAIL / ARTEFACT BY JÉRÉMY GOBÉ 

Textile artistic creation, in mechanical lace from Puy en Velay (France) by an artist and a company, Fontanelle. Parallel between safeguard of textile industry and coral reef.

  • BRANCOVAN PALACE

VIDEO INSTALLATION – COLLECTE DE GESTES EN EXIL (COLLECTION OF GESTURE IN EXILE)

Opening of the video installation « Collecte de gestes en exil », made by the Anou Skan Company, in the reception center of asylum seekers in France, an opportunity to ask the question of the movement of people in Europe

INSTALLATION Felt of GRASS AND WOOl

By Dorina Horatu, Director of the Textile Department of the National University of Arts of Bucharest, and workshops results by Viviana Basan, student UNARTE and Elisabeth Berthon, felted artist in France

INSTALLATION SCULPTURE COSTUME

By costume students of ENSATT in Lyon, workshop with Sylvie Lardet (Head of Costume Department) which will be organized around students work, on the occasion of the FITE.

 



INSTALLATION – À REBROUSSE-POIL 

In a co-working space grouping the library of materials and textiles but also 40 start-ups from creative industries. Creations from a workshop of Christelle Familiari, focusing on the use of unexpected materials, with art and design students of the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Etienne (ESADSE).

CONSTANTA

Discovery of the city of Constanta and shores of the Black Sea

  • FOLK ART MUSEUM

Guided visit of the museum and its collection of romanian traditional textiles.

 

National University of Arts of Bucharest

National University of Arts of Bucharest (UNArte) or Universitatea Națională de Arte is a higher education institution in Bucharest.
The visual arts university is structured in five sections: painting, sculpture, graphic, photo-video, art pedagogy.

FELT WORKSHOP
Continuation of a felt workshop between a French felted artist from Lyon, Elisabeth Berthon and students from the textile section of the National University of Arts in Bucharest.

EXHIBITION – Complex of traditional installations of wool of Lisa Sambata de Jos

PRATICAL INFORMATIONS

National University of Arts Bucharest, Textile Art and Design Department
Calea Grivitei no. 28 sector 1
Bucharest

NOD in Bucharest

In 2015 a group of multidisciplinary creatives set up to transform the abandoned industrial space of the former Cotton Factory in Bucharest into the first makerspace in Romania.
The industrial space was once again filled with life and became a central hotspot for the creative industries in Bucharest, grouping library of materials and textiles but also more than 40 start-ups.

Creations from a workshop of Christelle Familiari, focusing on the use of unexpected materials, with art and design students of the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Etienne (ESADSE).

Brancovan palace in Bucharest

The palace of Brancovan, near Bucharest (45 min by car), will exhibit three installations of the FITE in a place full of history.

  • VIDEO INSTALLATION Collecte de gestes en exil (Collection of gestures in exile)

Filmed projection of offered gestures to asylum seekers, highlighting everyone’s humanity to share, despite situations, by Anou Skan company, Sophie Tabakov, Laurent Soubise, and Didier Dematons for video realization.

  • INSTALLATION Déviations… travaillées au corps (Deviations… Beaten on the body)

Costumes creation linked with the body, internal, external, deconstructing standards, diverting looks and upset life paths, by students of ENSATT (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre) in Costume Conception, second and third years, in partnership with HTH/Bucol.

  • INSTALLATION Là d’où je viens, là où je suis (Where I come from, where I am)
    by photographer Bruno Boudjelal

PRATICAL INFORMATIONS

Adress :
Strada Valea Parcului nr. 1
Mogoșoaia

Contemporary art space – National University of Arts of Bucharest

The contemporary art space of National University of Arts of Bucharest will welcome installation Corail / Artefact by Jérémy Gobé (Bargoin Museum, Clermont Ferrand, France, from September to January 2018).

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Adress :
Strada Băiculeşti nr.29
București – Romania