The Elegance of Reduction: Cyrilla Mozenter at Five Myles, Brooklyn

Cyrilla Mozenter's Failed Utopian and Other Stories at Five Myles, Brooklyn (closed). Gallery Link
The exhibition includes current large felt pieces (through 2017) and earlier works from 1988 and beyond. Exhibition text "In the failed utopian & Other Stories Cyrilla Mozenter exhibits two and three-dimensional pieces of hand stitched industrial wool felt and works on and with paper. Using deceptively simple, pictogram-like images along with letters and words, Mozenter has invented her own language. The work is in the tradition of iconic images. Cycladic idols, medieval tapestries, Fra Angelico's frescos, African divination figures, and Aboriginal cave painting are points of reference. The involvement, however, is not with a standardized symbolic system. Through an immersion in an intuitive and improvisational process, a personal symbolism, which has reverberations beyond the self is discovered and revealed."

The detail and surfaces of the silk thread and felts is seductive and meticulous.

Animal seeking its cave (context image below several down)

Earlier drawings - late 1980s

The cave.

As one moves through the room new areas and time periods reveal themselves in an unfolding world of multiple components, perceived as much as sensed--all meticulously fastened.

One sees in the earlier works on paper the nascent underpinnings of the current works.