Rosenda Arcioni Meer
Together with a series of saris that allowed the viewer to observe how the textile tradition has evolved in the two regions, one-of-a-kind hand-sewn dresses were exhibited that Rosenda created starting from the saris, respecting their structure and construction, but translating them for a western audience.
The exhibition was a journey of immersion in a unique textile art, witness of a people and its history. It was the encounter as well with Rosenda Arcioni Meer’s sensibility, who expressed eclectically through fabric, poetry and painting, an inner search for beauty and peace.
HIMALAYAN EMOTIONS December 2022 January 2023
THE ARCHIVE DAYS, THE HUNT FOR THE GOLDEN THREAD June/July 2025
As many of you already know, L’OFFICINA contains the archive of Le Cachemirien, the art gallery of Indian textiles that Rosenda Arcioni Meer animated with her creations in Paris for twenty years. A fervent supporter of a thoughtful metissage, Rosenda had planned to infuse some of the light of the gold and silver threads of Benares into the shawls woven in Kashmir. In vain she had wandered through the alleys of Old Delhi in search of the precious thread, until Dr. Yashodhara Agrawal, director of the textile department of the Bharat Kala Bhawan Museum, suggested that she visit the oldest zari, gold and silver thread factory in Benares. From that discovery was born a surprising and unobtainable reversible shawl inspired by the veil of the Virgins by Gentile da Fabriano, an Italian painter of the fifteenth century.
During the archive days, unique saris and dresses in silk and cotton with patterns woven with gold and silver threads will be on display.
