“Rediscovering Threads of the 70s”

LKFF Art Projects is proud to announce its upcoming exhibition, “Rediscovering Threads of the 70s”, bringing together the rarely seen early textile works of Belgian artist Claudine Péters-Ropsy with a selection of contemporary figurative sculptors of international renown.

Created in the 1970s, Péters-Ropsy’s textile works embody the experimental spirit of that decade, where fiber art emerged as a powerful vehicle for both material exploration and personal expression. Textile was breaking its ties with traditional “household work” – as could also be seen in the works of Tapta or Louise Bourgeois. Her early pieces reveal a daring interplay of structure, matter, tactility, and abstraction, foreshadowing the revival of textile-based practices in today’s contemporary art scene.

In dialogue with these rediscovered works, the exhibition presents sculptures by leading figurative artists who studied art in the 70s and/or grew up in those years among which:

• Hanneke Beaumont (NL), whose clay and bronze sculptures explore universal questions of existence,

• Beth Carter (UK), known for her mythological figures and dreamlike hybrids,

• Sean Henry (UK), whose painted bronze figures capture poignant moments of humanity…

By juxtaposing very abstract textile experiments with the figurative sculptural voices of Carter, Henry, and Beaumont, “Rediscovering Threads of the 70s” explores how materials, bodies, and identities have been woven into contemporary figurative art across generations.