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Aprile Textiles



Aprile is a side project in which I design and create rugs, cushions and wall decorations, making only one-of-a-kind pieces or limited numbered editions.

The name Aprile corresponds to the symbolic choice of the sweet month of April, in which nature begins to give us confidence in a new beginning, the temperatures are milder but still not as exhausting as the summer ones, the days get longer, our mood leaves the winter greyness and nature begins to surround us again with colors. A month of rebirth of nature, cheerful and optimistic.
In Aprile, you will find many colors, designed to convey vitality, playfulness and irony. Or sometimes quiet, as in the case of the large white wallhangings.

Aprile was born from the belief that the world does not need new products or to consume more, but different products and a different way of consuming, more aware of the origin of what you buy and the know-how behind it, and more personal, guided by the choice to surround oneself with objects charged with a value and symbolic result.

In Aprile you won’t find  unlimited numbers of each piece. This is because I claim for myself the freedom to continue to follow my inspirations, which change with mood and with time, not repeating myself. For you it means having a unique object, which intercepts and shares a moment of my production.

Aprile pieces are intended for people who are aware, ironic, open to the new and to a way of thinking independent of fashions, who are not afraid to stand out, who give a symbolic value to the objects they choose to surround themselves with, who recognize the added value of handmade items as well as the value of the chance of a direct relationship with who makes them.

You can contact me to get to know me, to get information, to think of a piece together that suits your needs.



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News & Press


03/2024
STRUCTURES collage on Sleeping Fish XX book
10/2023
MIRROR RUG on UPPERCASE MAGAZINE n.59




04/2023

BANG rug in Milan
04/2023
SHARK rug in collaboration with Bankeri
02/2023
My rug at Atelier F, Rome

09/2022


WIDE - ART BASED SPOTS
@ INDUSTRIE FLUVIALI
Art residency at Industrie FluvialiOpen studio 15 September
Opening 22 September
Industrie Fluviali: Via del Porto Fluviale 35, 00154 Roma
05/2022


SPAZIO GIALLOShop my cushions in a beautiful new store in Via dei Riari, 78, Trastevere, Rome
04/2022

©Slow Picture Studio
BOTTEGA BUONARROTICosmo cushions designed exclusively for Bottega Buonarroti in a limited edition of 10 pieces. See more here


09/2021


Presentazione di "A.A.A.” a cura di Union Editions.

Studio Grossi Maglioni/Basta
Via Oreste Salomone 3a, Roma
09/2021

© Helenio Barbetta
My cushions on IDEAT MAGAZINE
09/2021

© Helenio Barbetta
My cushions on IO DONNA weekly magazine

               
07/2021


Eyes as Oars book  featured on Archivo - Photography and Visual Culture research platform.
Read more here
03/2021


A.A.A. è un testo cut-up realizzato raccogliendo annunci personali pubblicati su diverse testate italiane. Il testo è pubblicato come annuncio su Il Giornale delle Pulci di Palermo nel numero di marzo 2021.
Sul sito di Union Editions sono in vendita 100 copie della rivista al suo prezzo di copertina.
Qui un articolo sul lavoro
12/2020


Editor & book design for the book Cluttered Interiors by Mary Stacy Mazzone
06/2020

EYES AS OARS
Interview and book display


“An Unexpected influencer. Aby Warburg as a Muse for Contemporary Visual Culture” curated by Chiara Capodici and Benedetta Cestelli Guidi.

Leporello photobooks et al.
Via del Pigneto,162/e, 00176 – Roma
03/2020

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©Slow Picture Studio
Aprile upcoming workshop at Ex-lavatoio
10/2019

PLUS DECO




Interview by Elena Giavarini

 
08/2019

EYES AS OARS


Eyes as Oars on Landscape Stories #30 Archive Issue
05/2019

EYES AS OARS


Book presentation at The Paper Room, Rome
04/2019

EYES AS OARS


Book presentation at Spazio Duale,in conversation with Chiara Capodici
Via degli Ausoni, 3 - Roma


07/2017

GROUP SHOW


Group show Agibile, Sansepolcro (AR) at Caserma Archeologica

Utilizzo di immagini preesistenti e legame emotivo con il ricordo e la memoria sono alcuni degli elementi ricorrenti nella produzione di Carla Rak. L’artista crea opere densamente cariche di riferimenti simbolici eppure dotate di grazia e leggerezza formale; attingendo talvolta alla mitologia, Rak raccoglie tracce di quello che è stato nel tentativo di riconnetterle al tempo presente, creando un cortocircuito visivo e simbolico. L’intervento concepito per la ex Caserma intende porre l’attenzione sul concetto di trasformazione, processo che riguarda da vicino la storia dello spazio. Tale suggestione è evocata attraverso l’installazione al centro della stanza: una teca in plexi ospita il piccolo braccio in gesso di una statua antica che tiene nella sua mano dei cristalli di quarzo. Ecco così che un oggetto legato al passato diventa portatore di un’immagine di crescita lenta e costante, allo stesso modo in cui minerali e cristalli si formano, sedimentandosi strato dopo strato. Lo stesso processo di cristallizzazione è stato imposto da Carla Rak anche ad alcuni elementi naturali: delle foglie, una corteccia, galle di quercia, successivamente fotografati ed esposti a parete, rafforzano l’immagine di trasformazione e cambiamento di stato. Un’altra parete della stanza è occupata infine da due riproduzioni di grandi dimensioni con incisioni del XVII secolo raffiguranti una pianta, che mostra da un lato la parte fiorita e, specularmente, le sue radici. Sovrapposta a questa si staglia la figura di Proserpina, che nella mitologia presiede all’alternanza delle stagioni. La ciclicità del tempo, la rigenerazione e il deperimento trovano in questo modo una rappresentazione evocativa e sottile, in un continuo scambio tra passato e futuro, entropia e crescita

Saverio Verini

09/2015

APULIA LAND ART FESTIVAL


Nullus Locus sine Genio at Apulia Land Art Festival, Ostuni
2014

PREMIO CELESTE


Premio Celeste Final Show in Milan











About Carla



Carla Rak is an Italian visual artist, lecturer and scholar whose research ranges from photography to collage and textiles.

Her professional and creative life has always revolved around a multidisciplinary, integrated approach involving academic commitments, consulting for photographic projects, conceptual and intellectual forays as well as hands-on production.

For many years photoeditor in Contrasto photojournalistic agency, since 2011 she has been working as a freelance consultant for photographers and as lecturer at ISFCI Photography Institute.

Graduated in Sociology and with a PhD in Communication Sciences, her academic writings on visual language gained her the recognition of the Institute of Philosophical Studies in Naples and the Cozzi Prize from the Benetton Foundation.

In 2018 her first book “Eyes as Oars. A visual journey to Mars” has been published by Danilo Montanari editore.

Since the same year she started also developing her side project Aprile Textiles, her playground to experiment with ideas, techniques and inspirations. Born out of the desire to establish a more intimate connection with her audience, Aprile is dedicated to the creation of one of a kind or numbered limited series of soft furnishings, designed and handcrafted by her with a whole range of textile techniques.




                   





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