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KustaaSaksi creates and innovates with the Jacquardweave, generating all kinds of textile art andinstallations. He has already exhibited atthe Victoria & Albert Museum, the CooperHewitt Museum, the San Jose Museumof Art, the Textiel Museum and KunsthallStavanger as well asin galleries in New York,Paris, London, Helsinki, Singapore, HongKong, Tokyo and more. His commissionedartworks are for clients such as Hermès,Issey Miyake, Ferragamo, Lacoste, Nike,Marimekko and Swedese. With his largetapestries—all produced in limited editionsof six or eight— made of mohair, alpaca,merino wools, phosphorescent yarns, cotton,viscose, acrylic and lurex, he opens the doorinto his fantastical and esoteric wonderland.The transformation of his view of nature intotextiles leads to a very intense visualisationKustaa Saksiof all kinds of allegories. He knows no limitsin his textile research, performed on weavingmachines at Textiel Lab, associated withTextiel Museum Tilburg in the Netherlands.The machines make up a kind of tableau vivantwhere he explores diverse craft techniques.His collectionHyp
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Kustaa Saksi
“My world is a graphic world,” explains the Amsterdam-based Finnish designer Kustaa Saksi of his approach to weaving. Treating the loom as a “magic printer” Saksi’s recent collection of jacquard weavings, Hypnopompic, created at the TextielLab of the Textiel Museum in Tilburg honestly doesn’t look like the work of a weaver.
The collection’s title refers to a state between sleeping and waking, when dreams are vivid but sleep has ended. Doctors are still unclear as to why this happens. Saksi cites a family member’s experience of the condition coupled with his own migraine headaches as responsible for an interest in the patterns that emerge from this in-between realm. “People love patterns,” he reflects, “something in the cortex of the brain copies patterns. Does this explain the history of fabric patterns, because you see the same patterns appear again and again.”
The Hypnopompic collection is packed with the stuff of both nightmares and dreams: a giant spider graces Arachne’s Web; grasshoppers sliced into various patterns sit amongst the stalks of Chirp Chirp
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