jacquard – Ilona Lénárd

MyMondrian @ Dubai Design Days and Salone del Mobile 2017

The jacquard woven tapestries MyMondrian Day and MyMondrian Night designed by visual artist Ilona Lénárd.

MyMondrian Day | design Ilona Lénárd 2016 | Jacquard woven tapestry | 127 x 127 cm

MyMondrian Night | design Ilona Lénárd 2016 | Jacquard woven tapestry | 127 x 127 cm

The year 2017 is the Mondrian year, celebrating 100 years of De Stijl. Having lived and worked in the studio Theo van Doesburg in 1988-89, Ilona Lénárd feels emotionally connected to the work of Piet Mondrian of De Stijl movement, especially to his latest work the Victory Boogie Woogie.

The Victory Boogie Woogie painting by Mondrian is clearly inspired by the busy streets and urban blocks of Manhattan. In her new series of the Jacquard woven tapestries MyMondrian Ilona Lénárd pushes Mondrian’s last unfinished painting into the third dimension, therewith evoking the image of urban blocks and street canyons. The colour fields of the Victory Boogie Woogie are translated using displacement mapping technique into different shades of gray.

The MyMondrian wall tapestries have exactly the same dimensions as the original Victory Boogie Boogie, 127 x 127 cm, diagonally positioned.

MyMondrian Day and Night are on show at Design Days Dubai in Design District D3 from 13-17 March 2017, presented by the Dutch Creative Industry [DCI], and at the Salone del Mobile from 4-9 April, presented by Masterly at the Palazzo Francesco Turati in the center of Milan.

Contact details

Ilona Lénárd visual artist | email lenard@lenard.nl | website www.lenard.nl | press kit on Dropbox: https://goo.gl/xBCwyC

Omniverse tapestries at Dutch Design Center at D3 in Dubai

My Omniverse tapestries were shown during the inauguration of the Dutch Design Center in the Design District [D3] in Dubai in 6th of December 2016.

Omniverse 1 & 2 | Jacquard weaving | Dutch Design Center Dubai | December 2016

Omniverse at Dutch Design Week

My Omniverse Jacquard woven fabric has been applied in the soft fabric inlays for the Body Chair, designed by Kas Oosterhuis. The Omniverse fabric was cut into sixteen triangular pieces and wrapped around the inlays as to create a soft feel for the Body Chair.

Omniverse fabric | inlays Body Chair | Dutch Design Week 2016

Beirut Design Week | 20-29 May 2016

Beirut from The Smalville Hotel — Beirut panorama from The Smalville Hotel

During Beirut Design Week I showed two of my Jacquard woven tapestries, Omniverse #1 and Omniverse #2. The show was part of the Partners International Business [PIB] program supported by the Dutch Creative Industry [DCI]. Beirut was a very positive experience, a much more pleasant city than I expected. Although according to the Dutch Ambassador Hester Somsen the militia are unpredictable and may fight each other any moment, adding more bullet holes into the abandoned buildings, the general atmosphere in Beirut city was good and forward looking. The designer community is coming alive and is gaining momentum, especially with respect to sustainability and the relevance of design for the public realm.

my Omniverse tapestries in the back of the exhibition space at the KED

During the design week I established a good contact with the famous carpet shop Iwan Maktabi and its present owner Mohamed Maktabi. Also we got to know his cousin Hadi Maktabi, also a carpet designer and carpet dealer. I will participate again with new work next year for the Beirut Design Week 2017 and 2018, again as part of the DCI.

me and my assistant Ghida in front of my Omniverse tapestries — My assistant Ghida and me in front of my Omniverse tapestries

unloading my crate in front to the KED venue