The artist's book "Universe Reconstruction Project", designed as a fabric sample album, is dedicated to the avant-garde artists who lived at the beginning of the 20th century. They combined the aesthetic awakening with the desire to use art to redesign living environments and to place their work at the service of society. So they followed the call to the factories and plants, where many of them worked creatively for the textile and clothing industry.
According to the principle popular at that time among avantgardists “cloth is a product of artistic culture, as a picture, and therefore there is no reason for a dividing line between the two”, I transformed the pictures, graphics and even sculptures of Russian Constructivists and Italian Futurists (such as Varvara Stepanova, Fortunato Depero, Lyubov Popova, Tulio Kralli, etc.) into templates for fabrics. The patterns were applied to fabrics of different thicknesses and structures using sublimation printing.
Each fabric page is followed by a page with quotes from the artist manifestos from 1915 – 1929, presented in the form of text collages that were popular at the time. The manifestos are dedicated to the interaction between art and industry (mainly the textile industry), the new criteria of fashion and the artist's mission in the new society.
All quotations are in the original language. A brochure with a detailed list of sources and text translations into German and English is included with the album.