The association
The logo symbolizes the propagation of a wave and means
that the action, however minimal, provokes a reaction.
Symbolic also of our faith in the future
and the durability of our organisation.
  
 
Pique-nique dans le jardin du siège de l'association. Occasion pour les artistes de se rencontrer et d'échanger.
Jacqueline et Franck Govin accompagnés de Geneviève Schwartz lors d'un vernissage
Exposition "Bleu, le lin est bleu" exposé à la Sema à Paris 		 
 
 
 
           
           
  Artistes membres de l'association lors du vernissage de l'exposition "Mouchoirs" à la Bibliothèque Forney

FIBRE ART SYNERGY is an international artistic movement gathering creators whose practice shows an interest in fibre art, either by materials used or by the concept put above in their work.

The aim of FIBRE ART SYNERGY  is the valorization, the promotion and the diffusion of the fibre art.

Since its creation in 1992, FIBRE ART SYNERGY has insured the presence of the Fibre Art on the national and international scene. It organizes, co-operates, participates in multidisciplinary visual arts events, exhibitions, festivals, symposiums, conferences, etc...

  
 

 
  Rencontres entre artistes au siège de l'association

Elle est un centre de ressources et de documentation, ainsi qu'un "portail" sur internet pour les artistes membres, sorte de galerie virtuelle.

Elle coopère à des événements multidisciplinaires en arts visuels : expositions, festivals, symposiums, colloques, rencontres, etc... avec les lieux qui souhaitent organiser des événements.

  
           
           
Mission, Values, Actions...
 
 
  Jacqueline Govin visitant l'atelier de Zabu Wahlen Jacqueline Govin visitant l'atelier de Geneviève Besse Visite de la Galerie de Fibre Art Synergy Rencontre des artistes avec le public lors d'une exposition  
           
 

"Nos plus belles histoires brodées" au Musée des ATP à Paris

Exposition "Epouvantails au Musée" à Rouen

Diner avec les artistes lors du vernissage de la 1ère Biennale du Lin

Its Function
To encourage a greater interest in and understanding of Fibre Art in general.

Its Aim
Quality, elitism, exchange and sharing - a spirit of openess and generosity.

Its Actions
* Promotes the Fibre Art through the web site
* Promotes its members work
* Provides ressources information and documentation
* Represents its members in cultural and institutional organizations
* Assists with members projects if they correspond with FIBRE ART SYNERGY's goals

Its Ideal Project
The association has a project to create a Contemporary Art Space to represent Fibre Art in all its strength, quality and diversity within the contemporary framework.

  
           
  1ère Biennale du Lin à la Bibliothèque Forney à Paris
Assemblée Générale de l'Association       Jacqueline et Franck Govin à l'exposition "Orchidée" à Lyon
  
           
The word of the President
 
 
 

Jacqueline Govin, Présidente de Fibre Art Synergy

Poèmes récités par Françoise Vincent, accompagnés en musique par Marcel Eglin, lors d'une rencontre des artistes au siège de l'association

Oeuvre de Dominique Mercier au Japon pour l'exposition "Embellishment and Side Roads"

Epouvantail de Victoria C. et Carole Desmarais pour l'exposition "Epouvantails au Potager"

Jacqueline GOVIN Présidente de Fibre Art Synergy

Since its creatin in 1992, FIBRE ART SYNERGY is puzzling and questioning. Up to this date, no explanation, no answer has completely satisfied the curiosity of our interlocutors : why, in France already full of numerous associations regarding textile, having created one more ?
The response, entirely contained in the name of the association FIBRE ART SYNERGY seems obvious : "Fibre Art" for the Art of Fibres, our favorite territory, "Synergy" for the state of mind, the dynamism and the interaction in which we are functioning.
The question which nevertheless persists, comes from the fact that, usually, the action of textile associations is situated at the practice of a technique level and its expansion : like associations for cross-stitch, patchwork, lace... whom members are meeting for workshops in order to exchange their skills, to organize punctual exhibitions to show their own work, upholding in a way, a survival of ladie's work parties of olden times.

FIBRE ART SYNERGY, aware that this framework is already existing, has taken for mission to act at another level : valorization, recognition of Fibre Art and Textile Art in the noble sense of the term.
The fibre, animal, vegetal, mineral, synthetic is declining in many materials that artists are transforming with the help of several techniques, sometimes wise and obedient when it's coming directly from the "textile world" (weaving, embroidery, bobbin lace for instance), or sometimes "less proper" when it comes from other guilds (painting, collage, soldering, burning, etc...).
The Fibre Art that our association has chosen to promote is the result of those "cross-territories". Acquired skills and diversions from their strict rules, are one of the characteristics of this Fibre Art. Transgression, dissidence are apanages of the liberty of this way of expression, still too much ignored by art galleries in France, and by places that build careers.

Nevertheless, the "French Fibre Art Movement" is there, it exists and exhibitions we have been showing for 7 years are here to prove it.

In the 80's, galleries have exhibited creations from contemporary ceramists and glass designers, thus educating their public and collectors, giving then to those artists a quotation that no one contests today. So, there is one thing for us to hope : find in Paris or somewhere else a well-known gallery which will dare and defend the work of those contemporary fibre artists showing then, at the dawn of 21st century, when the fear of the unknown is disappearing, when consciousness recognizes, at last, the wealth of crossbreeding, times has come for us to have the mind wide-opened.



Jacqueline GOVIN
Founder of FIBRE ART SYNERGY
http://jacqueline.govin.free.fr