Crochet

Soqquadri in collaboration with Mero Matters Fine Arts is pleased to present CROCHET, a unique collection of textile artworks produced by the Italian conceptual artist Nadia Nespoli.

The CROCHET series features monochrome canvases hand-made with crochet weaving. These works recover and reinterpret creatively a traditional textile technique practiced by women of different countries and cultures, including Italy. Still today as in the past, in many Italian regions the construction of uncinetto (crochet) is made stitch by stitch with three simple elements: hands, hook, and yarn.

Employing skeins of cotton thread of different colours – white, red, orange, purple, yellow, green, pink, and blue -, Nadia Nespoli has created her canvases without ever undoing them during execution. The dimensions vary, as do the shapes: rectangles but also irregular polygons, with interrupted and resumed points, interspersed with visible knots. Each work is the tangible result of a slow, iterative, and meditative process and evokes hands and fingers that weave a fabric made of full and empty spaces.

Ancient and contemporary. Colourful and minimalist. Material and spiritual. A calm monochromatic look that is simple and easy on the eyes, yet powerful. Nadia Nespoli’s CROCHET canvases stimulate the observer’s reflection and imagination, illuminating and transforming the surrounding space.

text by Margherita Zanoletti