Main Stage Deco 2019: Flower-powered recyclart and organzatic design
“I have a vision, that these things are the true rituals of our age… I know how much good energy and creative force is put into it, but it feels a thousands times more when it manifests, no longer as everything that the inventors have made it, but also everything that it merges with, and therefore becomes what it is.” – Angéla Thiesz
If you watched the latest festival aftermovie this past weekend, you probably heard Angéla Thiesz, Ozorian matriarch and art director, founder of Retextil Foundation, talking a bit about the concept behind the Main’s 2019 dancefloor cover design.
A fusion of artistic traditions, functionality and ecological sensibility, her designs, which she has been creating with her team since 2016, are based on art therapeutic methods and a textile recycling technology that Angéla developed herself.
2016 Axis Mundi
2017 Cosmicoral Flowering
Metaphorically, she explains, the method that she creates with, teaches and displays, is “about connections and the quality of connections”.
Last year’s installation brigade consisted of about 30 volunteers, including Angéla’s sons, especially Timót Zakariás Peták, who made sure the intricate design came to life according to plan. The team lived and worked down on site from June 15, and transformed 30 sq meters of colorful organza left from the previous year’s deco into a mesmerizing creature again. For some a fantastical, shooting star-fish, for others a bursting comet-flower from above, it was a stage worthy of its rainbow-shimmery predecessors both day and night.
Why organza? Firstly, because 1 sq meter of organza weighs only about 2.5 grams. In other words, she says, she alone could bear the weight of the whole main stage, even though they do need a huge truck to transport it home due to its volume.
The main folk art motif, the hexagonal African flower, which the hippies had popularized in the 70s, Angéla chose as a nod to the flower children and the artistic and cultural impact they made, for the 50th anniversary of Woodstock ’69 that we also celebrated last summer.
521 crochet flowers were woven together to form the ‘spine’ of the cover decoration.
Retextil Foundation and the Main Stage deco crew thanks the designers, creators, installation brigade, photographers (Magu Sumita, László Kun, Zsófi Böhm, Pawel Wieloch, Max Ambio, Péter Szőke, Gergő Somogyi, Tavata Figueroa, Mika Gurovich, Éva Gózon) and the work of everyone else who contributed in any way. Check out the album Retextil shared on their FB page, as well as the pictures available on the festival’s official FB page.
You can read about the 2016 Main Stage Deco, the first by Angéla Thiesz and her crew, and also watch the making-of video in this article:
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