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Eva Basile

Eva Basile

Dal 1980 Eva Basile collabora con aziende tessili. Ha lavorato in molti settori: biancheria per la casa, tessuti operati, stampa, studio-tendenze. Insegna tessitura in carcere, comunità terapeutiche, centri diurni, scuole private. Ha partecipato a mostre collettive e concorsi. Dal 1977 al 1981 ha frequentato l’Istituto Statale d’Arte di Firenze. Ha studiato decorazione tessile, nelle varie discipline: progettazione, stampa su tessuto, batik, tessitura. Fra i suoi insegnanti: Maria Magni, Graziella Guidotti, Giorgio Brini, Anna Conti, Carla Gori.

In seguito ha studiato Arti visive al D.A.M.S. di Bologna Nel 1993 ha seguito il corso di progettazione dei tessuti Jacquard presso la Fondazione Lisio. Il suo maestro è stato Thierry Favre. Roberta Landini le ha insegnato l’analisi e catalogazione dei tessuti antichi, presso la Fondazione Lisio, nel 1994. Dal ’94 insegna tessitura Jacquard e analisi del tessuto presso quella fondazione.

Since 1980, Eva Basile collaborates with textile company. She has worked in numerous fields: household linen, operated fabrics, print, study-trends. She teaches weaving in jail, therapeutic communities, day care centres, private schools. She has participate to group exhibitions and contests. From 1977 to 1981, she frequented the State Institute of Art in Florence. She studied textile decoration, in the various subjects: projection, print on textile, batik, weaving. Some of her teachers: Maria Magni, Graziella Guidotti, Giorgio Brini, Anna Conti, Carla Gori.

Then she has studied visual arts at D.A.M.S in Bologna, in 1993 she has followed the course projection of  Jacquard fabrics at the Lisio Foundation. Her teacher was Thierry Favre. Roberta Landini has teached her analisis and cataloguing of antic fabrics, at the Lisio Foundation, in 1994. From 1994 she teaches Jacquard weaving and analisis of fabrics at this Foundation.

During the summers 1999 and 2000, she did two short seminaries on popular weaving, organized in Rocca Varano by the Association Arti e Mestieri. Graziella Guidotti was its animator. In February 2001 she studies pre-Colombian weaving with Chiara Barontini, in the ethnologic museum of Florence. There was a second seminary in April. During summer 2001, Luciano Ghersi assembled for her an African chassis and teached her fundamentals of Ewe weaving, in the open-air workshop of the Monte Labro Study Centre. In November 2001 she went to Likor, Ghana, at the Blakhud Research Centre. The Master Robert Aleawobu explained her the kpevi technics on the African chassis. In January 2003 she went again to Klikor, where she has in depth her knowledge on occidental Africa weaving.

Libri a cura di Eva Basile