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CLARA TOMIC BLEIBTREU

Lives and works in Paris, France
www.clara.bleibtreu.com

Clara Bleibtreu’s working method consolidates research and times, spaces and memories springs her work. We can see
creation; She finished her doctorate at the Department of Art the dynamic of analysis of the image by the image. By moving
of Sorbonne University in Paris and a graduate of a classical the tapestry in an aesthetic and artistic context Clara Bleibtreu
school of art in Sarajevo. Interested in the genesis of visual emphasize the very principle of spatal-temporality and how a

arts, she base her art on the very source of artistic creation, utilitarian object of primitive technique constitutes for us an
to respond by own image to this memory. Her analyzes object of memory of Art. She preserve this memory.
research led here to create upon this unique in the world

support: hand-woven canvases. Each of them has more than She desire to preserve the motives found at the very beginning
100 years of age and is the guardian of a collective memory. of the creation of abstraction. In the space of painting, the
She established a semiotic analysis of the plastic components tapestry and its memory are recontextualized in a post post-
of these motifs, and then used this visual language her modern time. The plastic vocabulary of the Neolithic period is
interpretation of our legacy. used for contemporary creation. And therefore, Clara Bleibtreu

think that her duty as an artist is accomplished. The long
Clara Bleibtreu use the plastic vocabulary present provided in memory is visible.
the tapestry without adding anything but only by readjusting

the format and simply renewing the space thanks to the painting Her researches on the Genesis of the decorative arts of 1979-
technique that recomposes it. Each painting starts from a 1988 and the Neolithic period, of which she is an expert, made
tapestry, present a new space and a new generation, an update her go across the wildest mountains of the Balkans for several
of history. The strong visual balance is presented. years. In isolated villages accessible only by foot, women
worked their tapestries in Neolithic technique, repeating the

ARTIST Using a production technique of acrylic, different from the motives that have been passed on from mother to daughter
one used by the women who initially created the object,
without drawings, for centuries. Women weave the same
Clara Bleibtreu formulate a connection between two artistic motives, respecting the same proportions from one village

spaces - painting and weaving: from this interweaving of to another, without ever meeting each other.
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