Del biso de las nacras del Mediterráneo se obtenía la seda marina o seda de sirena, un tejido asombroso que tiñe de dorado siglos de historia.
Cuando pensamos en tejidos naturales, pocas veces nos viene a la mente la seda de mar, un tipo de tejido que se obtiene del bivalvo Pinna nobilis, la nacra, que puede alcanzar hasta un metro de altura. Estos animales son endémicos del Mediterráneo y se adhieren con su pie verticalmente en el lecho marino. De su biso salen unos filamentos sedosos que , una vez procesados, forman esta delicada seda tres veces más fina que el cabello humano.
Gold
Tuned in to sea and green
Now that days are shortening play those summer tunes again, the ones we used to listen to by the sea, under a great blue sky. Let your uke sound joyful like in those old warm days laying in the green, under a bright dusk sun.
Hundertwasser: the straight line is ungodly
Friedensreich Hundertwasser – born in 1928 in Vienna as Friedrich Stowasser – became one of the most well-known artists and architects from Austria. His paintings are full of bright colours, spirals and nature elements combined with touches of gold and silver.
Ernst Fuchs – Fantastic Realism
In 1888, the Jugendstil architect Otto Wagner built the opulent villa surrounded by nature for himself and his wife Louise. Ernst Fuchs – leading representative of Vienna’s Fantastic Realists – opened it to the public.
Steinhof – Gold and Green
Where the golden angels are closer to heaven and the woods surround vestiges from the Viennese Jugendstil. The opulent Saint Leopold church was built between 1903 and 1907 by the architect Otto Wagner at the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital.
Circle of Animals
Ai Weiwei reinterprets symbolism, tradition and repatriation in over-sized bronzed sculptures. After Prague, Chicago, Paris and Los Angeles, the exhibition took place in the Belvedere gardens of Vienna.