{"id":1107,"date":"2025-04-14T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:35:38","slug":"in-elaborate-textile-paintings-anne-von-freyburg-reframes-femininity-in-european-art-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/in-elaborate-textile-paintings-anne-von-freyburg-reframes-femininity-in-european-art-history\/","title":{"rendered":"In Elaborate \u2018Textile Paintings,\u2019 Anne von Freyburg Reframes Femininity in European Art History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As if splashed onto the wall with a monumental brush, Anne von Freyburg<\/a>\u2019s installations visualize fabric and fiber as gestural splotches of paint. Colors bleed into one another and drips extend to the floor in what the London-based Dutch artist describes as “textile paintings.”<\/p>\n

Drawing on 17th and 18th-century European painting traditions like the still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age and the stylized exuberance of Rococo, von Freyburg reframes relationships between craft and fine art. <\/p>\n

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“Fantasia (After Boucher, Venus and Cupid)” (2022), textile painting: acrylic ink, synthetic-fabrics, tapestry-fabric, sequin fabrics, hand-embroidery, polyester wadding, and hand-dyed tassel fringes on canvas, 144 x 195 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

References to Rococo artists like Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard and Fran\u00e7ois Boucher play prominently in von Freyburg’s solo exhibition, Filthy Cute<\/em>, at Saatchi Gallery<\/a>. Tapping into “the clich\u00e9s of heterosexual romance and societal expectations of women…she explores the pressures women face, particularly the expectations of being ‘caretakers’ and ‘pleasers,’” says a statement. Von Freyburg turns her attention to themes of compassion, freedom, and women as sovereign individuals.<\/p>\n

Filthy Cute <\/em>celebrates sensuality and the feminine while highlighting unexpected associations between materials. The artist’s abstract compositions often reference florals that are blurred, dripping, and verging on complete abstraction. Glossy fabrics in a range of colors swirl without fully mixing, resulting in sensual shapes that are beguiling and strange. <\/p>\n

Von Freyburg describes one undergirding theme as “commodity fetishism,” tapping into the 17th-century fashion for Dutch floral still lifes and the infamous economic speculation bubble that characterized Tulip Mania<\/a> between 1634 and 1637.<\/p>\n

The show continues through May 11 in London, running concurrently Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture<\/em><\/a>, <\/em><\/em>which also includes work by von Freyburg. Find more on the artist’s website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Electric Feel (After Fragonard, The Pursuit)” (2025), textile painting: acrylic ink, synthetic fabrics, PVC fabric, tapestry-fabric, sequin fabrics, hand-embroidery, polyester wadding, and hand-dyed tassel fringes on canvas, 350 x 250 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of “Electric Feel (After Fragonard, The Pursuit)”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of “Electric Feel (After Fragonard, The Pursuit)”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Kabloom (After Jan van Huysum, Flower still-life)” (2024), acrylic ink, synthetic-fabrics, PVC fabric, tapestry-fabric, sequin fabrics, hand-embroidery, polyester wadding, and hand-dyed tassel fringes on canvas, 230 x 130 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Tuttifrutti (After Jan van Huysum, Flower still-life)” (2024), acrylic ink, synthetic-fabrics, PVC fabric, tapestry-fabric, sequin fabrics, hand-embroidery, polyester wadding, and hand-dyed tassel fringes on canvas, 235 x 135 centimeters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of “Sunny Side Up (After Fragonard, The Lover Crowned)”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Installation view of ‘Filthy Cute’ at Saatchi Gallery, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As if splashed onto the wall with a monumental brush, Anne von Freyburg\u2019s installations visualize fabric and fiber as gestural splotches of paint. Colors bleed into one another and drips extend to the floor in what the London-based Dutch artist describes as “textile paintings.” Drawing on 17th and 18th-century European painting traditions like the still Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}