![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve worked to tear down borders between contemporary art and textiles,” he said. ![]() “I was born in Como and very attached to the territory and its link with the silk manufacturing industry. “I’ve been close to the fashion world by birth,” the artist said. Mimmo Totaro’s “Giunone.” Courtesy of Mimmo Totaro Since 1991, together with Nazzarena Bortolaso, Totato has masterminded the yearly Miniartextil exhibition dedicated to textile art and held in Como, the artist’s hometown. Textiles have allowed me to evoke poetry and develop life-size installations in big spaces or in the outdoors,” he said.Ĭhanneling rationalist and abstract art, Totaro is known for his yarn-made geometric compositions that have gained him international recognition across his 30-year-plus career, including in China where he was part of the 12th Fiber Biennale at the Yunnan Museum in Kunming Shi. “Textile materials have become very important not just to me but to anyone who already toyed with fiber art. “I started in art by doing ink hatching that had nothing to do with textiles, but they soon morphed into sculptures made of nails and taut yarns, ropes and wooden slats,” Totaro said. ![]() A pioneer of textile art in Italy, Mimmo Totaro only acknowledged how textile art had creators and followers all over the world attending his first “Les Biennales de la tapisserie” tapestry biennale in Lausanne in 1981. ![]()
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