molinari mimesis

This project continues Tracy Susheki's dedication to crochet Guido Molinari’s paintings. As his student at Concordia she employed his manifesto “painting should neither represent nor deal with the object, but on the contrary, should attempt to become an object itself” thus solidifying her defense of crocheting in a painting class.

They acknowledged the similarities of our work: his rhythmic painted panels of acrylic colour onto canvas and her rhythmic hooking of acrylic yarn into an object. However, his context was the academic & patriarchal art world while hers aimed to overturn that world’s rejection of activities usually ascribed to the domestic, ‘leisurely’ female.

On Nov 6th Tracy Susheski will install herself in the front window at the Craft Council of BC and begin crocheting a Molinari painting. As the days progress, the community will interact with and observe the on going labour and growth of the object, or ‘painting’, filling the space around the artist.