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Feathered Wall Hangings of Ancient Peru
| 03/09/13, 18:17 | |
Feathered Walls – Hangings from Ancient Peru,
an installation comprising 12 impressive feather panels—probably
hangings—made by the Wari peoples of southern Peru between about 700 and
1000 will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, beginning
September 16. Made of finely woven cotton cloth and measuring roughly
seven by two feet on average, the panels are covered completely with the
small iridescent body feathers of the blue and yellow macaw in a bold
design of large rectangles. They rank among the most luxurious and
unusual works created by textile artists in Peru prior to the Spanish
conquest in 1532.
Drawn from the Metropolitan Museum’s own collection—the panels were
acquired by Nelson A. Rockefeller in the 1950s and bequeathed to the Met
in 1979—as well as two loans, these icons of ancient Peruvian textile
art will be installed on the 88-foot-long wall between the Museum’s
ancient South American art galleries and the galleries for modern and
contemporary art. The panels and the many feather pieces illustrated in Peruvian Featherworks, a book published by the Metropolitan Museum in 2012, speak eloquently of the rich imagination and remarkable ingenuity of ancient Peruvian textile artists.
The installation is organized by Heidi King, Senior Research Associate
in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania,
and the Americas. Exhibition dates: September 16, 2013 – March 3, 2014 by Metropolitan Museum | |
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