Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW LandEscape meets Florian Nörl All my artworks are made from Textile: I petrify textiles and then process them in a similar way to stone. I call the result and the technique textile stone (Textilstein). The overall concept of my work is the transformation of postmodern materials (old textiles) into contemporary art or contemporary gems. „Textilstein“ is a specially developed material by Florian Nörl, which redefines the boundaries of the textile medium in the visual arts. The „textilestone“ finds its place on this interface with an interaction of plastic and pictorial exploration of the textile material. Through a special process and technology, the feel is velvety and the surface reminds of „Stucco lustro“ from a distance. Only by touch can one truly understand the textile material. @floriannoerl An interview by Josh Ryder, curator new, innovative and unique is definitely one of the and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator main reasons for my enthusiasm for experimentation. [email protected] The body of works that we have selected for this Hello Florian and welcome to LandEscape. Before special edition of LandEscape —and that our readers starting to elaborate about your artistic production have already started to get to know in the and we would like to invite our readers to visit introductory pages of this article — has at once https://floriannoerl.art in order to get a wide idea captured our attention for the way it highlights the about your artistic production, and we would start connection between textile art and contemporary this interview with a couple of questions about your sensitiveness, unveiling the point of convergence background. You have a solid formal training and you between tactile and pictorial aspects of the medium. hold a Master from Linz Kunstuniversität: how do When walking our readers through the genesis of these formative years influence your evolution as an your works, would you tell us something about your artist? Moreover, are there any experiences that did usual setup and process? In particular, how did you particularly help you to develop your attitude to develop the idea of „Textilstein“? experiment? Florian Nörl: A focus of my studies was textile art, Florian Nörl: Hello LandEscape. I was very fortunate to and I was particularly interested in screen printing be able to study at an extremely free university even before I started studying. Leftovers and without being under any time or administrative misprints were always omnipresent and I was looking pressure. What could be better than using an entire for a way to work with them artistically. In most university as a studio. I was also allowed to spend cases, textiles are something soft, worn on the body, semesters during my training period in universities with are curtains or other home textiles. I wanted to break cities like Pilsen CZ and Bilbao ES. Creating something with this quality and started experimenting. It was