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Pacita Abad | Walter Haefner Foyer: Kunsthaus Zurich

Current exhibition
19 November 2024 - 1 June 2025
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Installation view of Pacita Abad at Kunsthaus Zurich
Installation view of Pacita Abad at Kunsthaus Zurich

Trapuntos by Pacita Abad are on view in the Walter Haefner Foyer at the Kunsthaus Zurich. 

 

On her extensive travels, Pacita Abad (1946 Batanes, Philippines – 2004 Singapore) found her roots in the realm of textiles. Although she saw herself primarily as a painter, she was fascinated by 'trapunto,' an old Italian quilting technique. She embellished padded and stitched canvases with pearls, buttons, sequins, stones, shells and fragments of glass to give her works a sculptural dimension. Between 1981 and 2000, Abad created the large-format 'Masks and Spirits' series, which incorporated everything from African masks to Nepalese and Tibetan thangkas. Her 'trapunto' paintings, which are chiefly distinguished by their vibrant colours and accumulation of materials, bring together images and experiences from a range of cultures, economies, and histores, and underline the strong influence exerted by the supposed 'primitive' art on Western modernism. 

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Installation view of Pacita Abad at Kunsthaus Zurich

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