2/4 (Geometric Protorypes) By Evi Olde Rikkert

$8,000

Description: 2/4 (Geometric prototypes) produced prior to the series - "machine errors"

Unique tufted carpet.

Produced by: Artist
Year: 2021
Made in: Italy
Material: 100% Italian sheep wool Dimensions: 2.2 x 2.2m

Evi Olde Rikkert (NL 1994) lives and works between the Netherlands and Italy. She holds an MFA in Site Specific art (InSitu) from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (BE) and a BA in Fashion Design from Polimoda in Florence (IT). She previously collaborated with the Phoebus Foundation textile collection (2019, Antwerp, BE) and received a grant from the Mondriaan Fund NL (2020–2021). Evi Olde Rikkert views art as a way to ask questions and make contemporary issues tangible. Her projects come to life through dialogue and interdisciplinary collaborations, for example, with shepherds and workers in the textile industry.

The carpets from the series Machine Errors are the final step in a research project exploring the production chains of wool. At the start of this research project, Olde Rikkert joined shepherd Armando Zocchi on a livestock trek. He tends a flock of seventy sheep and forty-five cows in Alta Valtellina, a mountain valley in Northern Italy. She then connected with factories in the Italian textile regions of Biella and Bergamo to have the raw wool spun into yarn; while this may seem like a logical next step in the process, it actually wasn’t. The textile industry in Italy, one of the last in Europe, typically doesn’t work with itchy Italian wool with short fibers but rather with higher-quality Australian merino.
Condition: Pre-owned
Seller: COUR
COUR represents design-driven objects of singular value. Through concept-driven exhibitions, experimental publications and a constantly evolving collection of design collectibles curated by Milan Henderickx, COUR shapes new design narratives that unfold across multiple periods, genres and media, bridging past and present and seeding new concepts in the continuum of design history.