The
wonderful new exhibition Fiber Future – Japan´s Textile Pioneers in Design Museum introduces us 30
leading textile designers in Japan and shows us the amazing power of creative
and investigating mind.
W-Orbit by Akio
Hamatani (2010). Huge rayon
sculpture is made
in collaboration with Chiaki Murakami, a specialist in dyeing
with wood-ash lye and
fremented leaves of the indigo plant.
Hideho
Tanaka combines
in his Vanishing and Emerging sculpture
(2009) cotton, flax and paper.
Shape of Red 1 (2009) by Shigeo
Kubota is an amazing sculpture
made of nylon, sisal hemp and plain weave.
His art of weaving is inherited –
Mr. Kubota was born
into a family of traditional weavers.
Umi kara
no okurimono: Air, X (A Gift from the Sea:Air, 2010)
by Yasuko Iyanaga is made of tie-dyed spun silk and
wire.
The
exhibition opened yesterday and is open until May 5th.
Photos © Paula Hietaranta
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