Anna Torma is an artist of Hungarian origin born in 1952, emigrated to Canada since 1988.
His interest and fascination for textiles originating in childhood Hungarian mothers and grandmothers initiative very soon the girls to the art of pushing the needle, thus Anna herself has entered the world of embroidery and sewing.
His studies in Textile Arts and Design at the Academy Hungarian Applied Arts in Budapest from 1974 to 1979 coincided with the textile revolution of the 1970s and the growing popularity of works of foreign artists. At that time the textile away little by little what had hitherto embodied, folk art, hobby or household. Insofar as this particular course was not officially considered as one of the fine arts, it allowed a great Hungarian artists creative freedom, since they were not as closely monitored by the government that could be those created in other media.
Pieces were woven or sewn into abstract forms, polymorphic plant and conceptual work, an approach to textile art that has never been considered.
structures textile Anna Torma incorporate many techniques such as embroidery, patchwork, applique, quilting and felting.
First, it assembles a database of patchwork fabrics often composed of discarded pieces of old clothes, then she starts to produce embroidered designs on the surface and primed.
His goal, she says, is to create innovative work from textile arrangements, addressing the concepts of femininity, domesticity and ethnicity.
In some of his works, his embroidery images and text excerpts resume books for her children, and charting the progress of their learning.
Other compositions are pieces of gauze sewn together and adorned with floral motifs carved into textiles Hungarian. This loan
images and these assemblies allow it insufler personal experiences and spirituality and to draw parallels with other artists.
His works are large, complex, intimate, fun and sometimes disturbing.
Everyone is like a memorial site where you get lost in dreaming up the thread of his story, that she shared with her children, traced through their images and stories, that of motherhood and unconditional love, images of the breast feeder, evocation of a caring mother and comforter, drinks to the source of a fantastic imagination, between heroes and monsters.
His works are carried out with care and attention to detail and textures, an experience of movement the mesh and the emotion of the piece, which belie their appearance childish.
Beautiful quilts, illustrated with fascinating graphics and skilfully disordered, with thin edges and deformed and were the old quilts as they are made for hospital beds from tissues of old shirts, sometimes complex models, mixing techniques, materials and cultural references, his work made her a recognized artist, participating in numerous international conferences on textile art.
Currently she teaches her skills at the Art Center of Burlington USA.
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