Biocarpet - Textile Garden
The art work entitled Biocarpet- Apple Murex Egg casing aims to present the mysteries of the sea worlds and their natural structures, invisible, thus unknown to the naked eye, in the form of a textile sculpture-carpet. The subject of the artistic work is an experimental textile surface realized with the help of biomimetic generating principles. Special attention is paid to examining the possibility of applying tactile and biomimetic qualities on the development of nonwoven structural textile surfaces, whose functionality has been improved by research and application of appropriate forms or mechanisms from nature.
Exploring the unknown marine world and its structures has allowed me to upgrade my own sociology of culture through new and unexplored artistic visions, which have helped me articulate my artistic imagination more clearly. Current sociological topics that I use in my work, I express through the textile medium. My sphere of interest ranges from biomimicry in textiles to textile sculptures made of wool. The wool fibers that I shape using the felting technique allow me to realize artistic ideas into complex three-dimensional forms. By separating individual elements from nature and multiplying them through various structural variations, I tried to come up with new systems for building textile flora, which I connect into a unique, compact textile base. Such a form of textile structures is the bearer of aesthetic, but also functional content, which I define through the biomimetic and textile principle of construction. The artistic work enables the enrichment of the knowledge fund in the field of design of "passively smart" textile surfaces based on the postulates of biomimetics, which have not been researched and explored in detail in the domestic environment. The work of art presents concrete ways to implement modern experiences in practice and to enhance development of new structural values in the field of textile design and art. The work of art also presents new technological ways of achieving visual expression in the field of textile design.
The purpose of the artistic work Biocarpet-Apple Murex Egg casing is the realization of innovative textile structures that differ from the traditional way of forming textile surfaces. The work analyzes the influence of biomimetics in the context of nonwoven textile development with special emphasis on textile design and art. It enables the transformation and improvement of classical forms and primary functions of textiles into a visually new and utilitarian form, by applying appropriate biomimetic content. In addition, the aim of this work of art is to investigate the potentials of materials and characteristics of natural forms and the possible ways of their transposition into structural surfaces, as well as the possible artificial imitation of their natural functions. I transferred the content of natural shapes to the artistic values and characteristics of the surface and I defined the structure of textiles by their mutual relations. A further goal of the work is reflected in emphasizing the expressive possibilities of textiles, using structural characteristics that arise from the nature of the material I use. I have synthesized various art disciplines in the media and conceptual sense, which create new art forms from the unknown. The tactility of materials and their mutual communication encourage further research into new aesthetic and usable values. Individual creative freedom and the possibility of experimentation enabled me to create a unique art form.
Arpad Pulai
Artistic associate
Graduated from the Belgrade University of Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts (Textile department) in 2011. In 2014 Pulai founded the association ’’ Čunak’’, with the aim of reviving textile techniques, manual and machine knitting. The association works in the field of artistic / textile workshops such is weaving, fetl wool, hand and machine knitting. Appointed professors at the School of Design ‘’Bogdan Šuput’’, Novi Sad, for the course Textile design in 2014. Since 2015. Pulai is a full time Artistic Associate at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the Depatment of Textile.
Member od ETN (European Textile Network ) 2017.
Member of ULUPUDS(Association of Applied Arts and Designers of Serbia), 2014.
He is mainly working un the field of textile art, design, tapestry, digital illustration, pedagogy.
Exhibitions:
Intercontinental bienal, The National Museum of Colombia, Bogota, Columbia, 2023.
7th Riga International Textile and Fiber Art Triennial, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Lodz, Poland, 2023.
Young Balkan Designers 22, Salone del Mobile, Milano, Italy, 2022.
European Prize for Applied Arts 2021, BeCraft, Belgium, 2021-2022.
"Scythia 13", 13.-th. International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2020.
The 9th International Mini Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia", Ivano- Frankivs’k, Ukraina, 2019.
International Micro Textile Art Exhibition, Ivano- Frankivs’k, Ukraina, 2019.
Prizes and Awards
Award of the Museum if Applied Arts in Belgrade for the realization of Super-Ego-Logic man, Belgrade, Serbia, 2020.
Awaded with the ’’Nagyapáti Kukac Péter ’’ award for the exceptional achievement in textile for the 2017.
The Prize for the Ideal Tapestry Solution for 2017 year, Atelje 61, Petrovaradin, 2017
Award at international exhibitions for the work "Introspection" in the categories of contemporary tapestries, 6th Triennial of Tapestry, Novi Sad, 2017
Commendation, award by the jury of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia for the work of Introspection, TISO, Belgrade, 2017
Commendation, award by the jury of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia ) in 22nd Biennial of Tapestry 2016.
Won the Grand Prix at the 45th May exhibition for textile wall partition made of termic presses, Belgrade, 2013.
Commendation, award by the jury of ULUPUDS (Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia ) in the field of textiles, 2011.
Awarded with the ’’Iva Vrinjanin’’ award for the exceptional achievement in textile for the 2011.
