June 10th 2009

New Partner!

Hvass&Hannibal have had a change of heart on who they’re going to work with for the project. They’re now set on Anne Werner who is a Danish artist, educated from the Islandic School of the Arts and from the Technical College of Copenhagen studying tecnical pattern cutting. She collects old crafts and DIY books from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s and a lot of her work draws on tecniques she finds in them.

They’ve known Anne for a long time, and we really love her colorful, crazy work. So they are looking forward to getting started on this and seeing what’s inside her head and how it will melt together with their own ideas.

Their plan is to make is a giant wall carpet or drape, using different colours and materials. Experimenting with textures and compostions in a huge hand-sewn image. The fabrics will vary, from pieces of old clothing to hand dyed or woven bits.

They hope “it will look like a mix between the remains of a tablecloth after a wild 17-hour party, and a more saturated version of the bayeux carpet.” If it’s half as good as it sounds it’s going to be spectacular.