BALTIMORE MUSEUM PRESENTS ‘NUNO: JAPANESE TRADITION’

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BALTIMORE, MD. — The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents the exhibition, “Nuno: Japanese Tradition/Innovation in Cloth” on view through October 7.

Nuno is one of Japan’s most influential and innovative textile producers, and its fabrics are known for the unconventional materials and processes used in their creation — linking traditional Japanese textile skills with state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies.

The BMA will display more than a dozen examples of these contemporary textiles from its collection, including pleated and folded textiles inspired by the Japanese art of origami; natural fibers whimsically printed with large paper clips or scattered rubber bands; and ethereal layers of transparent silk interwoven with strips of paper or feathers.

While tried and true materials of cotton, linen, silk, and polyester are often used, Nuno fabrics also result from the skilled manipulation of unusual elements generated through both high and low technology, such as thin copper wire used in telecommunications or rusted iron nails and sheet metal.

The intriguing, sometime playful, results belie the difficulties involved in the process of their creation.

This exhibition is curated by Anita Jones, the museum’s curator of decorative arts for textiles.

The Baltimore Museum of Art is at 10 Art Museum Drive. For information, 443-573-1700 or www.artbma.org.