Artist Information:
Bettina Franckenberg
bodrum,
Turkey
Member Since: Apr 2008
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Artist Statement:
‘Hayatýn Dokusu - Tissue of
Life ’ – a textile
installation
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It’s the theme of life in
balance with the cosmos,
growing and maturing at all
lifesteps that interests me.
The idea started with the
study of matriarchal mythology
- one of the first answers
developed to questions about
the beginning...
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Artist Exhibitions:
BETTINA FRANCKENBERG
Exhibitions
1986 Castle of St.Peter,
Bodrum / Turkey - 1st personal
exhibition
1989 “Galerie im
Körnerpark”, Berlin -
exhibition of the Textile-
Group;
Gallery of
“Ateliergemeinschaft
Webkunst-Textil” -
personal exhibition
1990 Riga / Latvia -
exhibition of the Textile
Group
1991 Galerie
delMese-Fischer,
Meisterschwanden / Switzerland
– “European Patchwork /
Quilt 1991”;
Schachen-...
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Bettina Franckenberg's Artist Portfolio
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‘Hayatýn Dokusu - Tissue of Life ’ – a textile installation _______________________________________________________________
It’s the theme of life in balance with the cosmos, growing and maturing at all lifesteps that interests me.
The idea started with the study of matriarchal mythology - one of the first answers developed to questions about the beginning of the world and the sense of life.
In mankind’s imagination of the universe the three-shaped moongoddess is a symbol of life in all it’s aspects as well as of nature in it’s cycle.
The white moon sickle is the symbol of the goddess in the shape of a girl; symbol for youth, innocence and spring.
The red full moon is the symbol of her as a mature woman, goddess of love and fertility, who is reigning in summer, the climax of the year.
The black sickle, or new moon, symbolizes the old woman shape of the goddess; as the death goddess, she rules the underworld and takes all life with her in autumn and winter - and lets it rise again in springtime of the next year to continue the cycle of life.
In my work these mythological colours - white, red and black - are both symbol... |
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