I am so happy that we made the effort to catch it on it s last day otherwise i might not have come across this amazing display of color and texture.
Magic flying carpets katherine bernhardt.
She and her husband also run an importing business magic flying carpets that sells rugs handmade by berber women at pop up shops and art fairs and gives the weavers the direct profits.
Alongside her fine art practice bernhardt and her husband youssef jdia co founded magic flying carpets a website and pop up supporting and maintaining the weaving traditions of the rural berber women of morocco whose patterning often serve as inspiration for bernhardt s compositions.
The artist katherine bernhardt met the berber youssef jdia while travelling in morocco.
Organized by katherine bernhardt youssef jdia.
July 12 august 4.
Magic flying carpets of the berber kingdom of morocco will be having a month long pop up souk at novella.
Does magic flying carpets the initiative you and your husband run alongside berber women in morocco stem from this interest.
Opening reception friday july 12 7pm for immediate release.
Bernhardt s work has been shown at multiple locations including the saatchi gallery london galeria marlborough madrid gavin brown s enterprise new york and white columns new york.
Hang up is a contemporary art gallery in london specialising in signed and unsigned banksy prints.
Thursday july 17th 12 6 pm.
The exhibition s title is a nod to the twin artists behind the collective poncili creacion whom the artist met during a recent residency in puerto rico.
Elizabeth katherine and katherine s husband yousef jdia whom she met at a souk in essaouira morocco recently went into business under the name the magic flying carpets of the berber.
The color combinations the texture the weaving skill the symbolism it s like everything in one.
I went to morocco in 2007 and i saw the carpets over there.
Katherine bernhardt of magic flying carpets just before christmas i read about an art show in new york magazine at canada gallery by artist katherine bernhardt.
Katherine bernhardt of magic flying carpets just before christmas i read about an art show in new york magazine at canada gallery by artist katherine bernhardt.
It didn t take long for her to fall in love with both youssef and the carpets he sold.
Katherine bernhardt youssef jdia present a pop up souk.
I am so happy that we made the effort to catch it on it s last day otherwise i might not have come across this amazing display of color and texture.
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Magic flying carpets of the berber kingdom of morocco.
