{"id":6721,"date":"2016-02-17T11:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T09:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=6721"},"modified":"2016-05-30T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T14:26:54","slug":"turkey-in-marocco-southern-rugs-of-morocco-tazenakht","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/exhibition\/turkey-in-marocco-southern-rugs-of-morocco-tazenakht\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKISH PATTERNS IN MAROCCO? - Rugs from Southern Morocco - Tazenakht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">DURATION 1\/ &#8211; 26\/03\/2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weaving and knotting traditions of the Moroccan Berber people date back to pre-Islamic times. Isolation \u2013 due to geographical circumstance, among other things \u2013 allowed the artistic vocabularies of the different tribes to develop largely without influencing each other. Any mutual exchange that <i>did<\/i> take place was mostly linked to the dynamics of trade, which gave rise to new centres of economic and intellectual transfer.\u00a0The rapid expansion of Islam brought classical rug traditions from China, India, Central Asia, Persia and Anatolia to Northern Africa. Thus, Morocco became the western-most border of the \u2018rug belt\u2019 as well as of Islamic culture. The G\u00f6rdes knot, also known as Turkish knot, has been the most widely used kind of knot in Morocco ever since.\u00a0In rugs from Rabat and Mediouna, classified as courtly commodities, one can readily recognise the popularity of Turkish art and crafts. This is evident in textile products as well as ceramics, furniture and metalwork. Variations on patterns known from Anatolian kelims and rugs appear in many regions of Morocco. Not just rugs from Rabat, but also those crafted in extremely remote areas, display traces of this approximation of Turkish traditions, which was especially cultivated from the 17<sup>th<\/sup> to the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Among the social elite, it became fashionable to engage with Turkish art and culture \u2013 even to appropriate it in a very special manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this new show, Reinisch Contemporary presents rugs from southern Morocco, from the region of the volcanic Sirwa Massif, which effectively connects the High Atlas with the Anti Atlas. Wool of a particularly high quality, as well as stylistic proximity to patterns developed in Turkish-influenced Rabat and Mediouna, mark these pieces as special. Tazenakht, a place of trade and culture, is the focal point of this region, which is sub-divided into different tribal areas.\u00a0It is striking how \u00ad\u2013 far from Rabat \u2013 a sphere of influence could emerge, which is unmistakably and thoroughly determined by the strict forms of courtly art. These carpets also stand in contrast to the monochrome and apparently informal creations, which can be so very reminiscent of Western modern art today. One of the essential distinguishing features of Berber culture is how open to new influences it was and still is. New articulations, which link indigenous with foreign traditions, are culturally intrinsic in this context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">G\u00fcnther Holler-Schuster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURATION 1\/ &#8211; 26\/03\/2016 The weaving and knotting traditions of the Moroccan Berber people date back to pre-Islamic times. Isolation \u2013 due to geographical circumstance, among other things \u2013 allowed the artistic vocabularies of the different tribes to develop largely without influencing each other. Any mutual exchange that did take place was mostly linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6690,"menu_order":52,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/6721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7202,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/6721\/revisions\/7202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinisch-graz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}