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Biography
Sabine Cibert ● Contemporary Textile Art

A large scale itinerary

Sabine Cibert works painstakingly with textiles.

Her itinerary is original and rich of both a professional and artistic career, between architecture and textile practice.

With her diploma of architect, she leads for twenty-six years complex projects in urban planning, then in driving change within the Metropolis of Lyon.

In parallel, she explores traditionnal.

She thus assembles textile fragments to create large-format compositions in relief. Taking up 4 to 9 sq.m, they give a contemporary twist to classic tapestries.
Via her artistic reminiscences starting with the aesthetic shock at seeing Jean Lurçat’s Chant du monde tapestries, to abstract innovations and research with the Bauhaus school, her own trajectory converses with major figures in art history, prolonging their explorations.
Breaking free from the benchmarks in traditional quilting, she has invented an entire personal vocabulary, arranging a huge variety of textiles that she has collected over several decades. Inspired by the forces of nature, her compositions act as a transposition of telluric forces and soundtrack to her inner landscapes.
She homes in on the dynamics of passage, changes of state, becoming.
During a 2019-2020 residency at Chaise-Dieu (in Auvergne) she inspired locals to take a fresh look at the spectacular set of 16^th-century tapestries made for the abbey choir. This initiative fostered a connection between the heritage textiles and a collective contemporary work. The project is to be exhibited at the Love Etc. edition of the International Festival of Extra ordinary Textiles -FITE.
Since 2017, she has been exploring a new surface effect, using relief in certain works, achieved by turning them over to the wrong side. This 3-D material, akin fur, feather and scale, further procures an enveloping sensation, bordering on sculpture
Since 2014, she has been represented in Lyon by Le Showroom Galerie 7 | which puts on the Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires | FITE

Since 2003 she has nine international references.

Inspiration

Since 1983 regular practice of traditional Far East arts| yoga, aikido, aïki taïso, qi gong, t’ai chi ch’uan

2019 El Anatsui exhibition | München | Germany
2000 Molas exhibition| museum Bargoin | Clermont-Ferrand | France
1999 Hokusaï exhibition | Milan | Italy
1973 Discovered the catalogue of Lausanne textile art Biennial | Switzerland
1963 Exhibition Le chant du monde | The world song |
Jean Lurçat | Château d’Annecy | France

Professional background and training

2013 Member of ADAGP, Society of the Authors in the Graphic Arts and Plastics
2011 Subcription to the Maison Des Artistes
1991-2004 Private tutoring of ancient quilts
1991-2008 Head of IT method organization at the Urban Community of Lyon
and then project manager
1983-1991 Conduct of urban planning operations in the urban community of Lyon
1982 Diploma of architect | Architecture School of Lyon