Aiko Tezuka
No. 1 - 7
Title: No.5 (C/E - India 2014), 2009, Inkjet Print, 52,4 x 42,0 cm (im Rahmen 60 x 50 cm)
Year: 2009
Material: Inkjet Print
Dimensions: 52,4 x 42,0 cm
Edition: 15 + 2 A.P.
Price: 150 €
Info: 7 Motive
The textile objects and installations by Japanese artist Aiko Tezuka are dedicated to art and textile history. She embroiders familiar and unfamiliar motifs onto purchased textiles or meticulously unravels industrially manufactured fabrics, as well as fabrics she has designed herself, into individual threads by hand. In her more recent works, she weaves together familiar images, such as quotations from art history, and traditional ornaments with everyday symbols, such as food labels or the recycling symbol. In this way, she questions symbols, patterns, and fabrics in terms of their cultural significance. This deconstruction is always also an act of reconstruction, through which she reveals to us the history behind her works as memories woven into fabric.
Aiko Tezuka was born in Tokyo in 1976, studied painting in Kyoto, and taught in Kyoto and Okayama until 2009. She then moved to London, relocated to Berlin in 2011, and received a scholarship for the international studio program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin the following year. Aiko Tezuka currently lives and works in Berlin.
The editions are photographic excerpts of her works adding the logo of the Dortmunder Kunstverein as a symbol itself.
No.1 (Fountain 2009, cat's cradle)
No.2 (Fountain 2009, Las Meninas)
No.3 (Thin Membrane 2009)
No.4 (C/E - Peranakan 2014)
No.5 (C/E - India 2014)
No.6 (C/E - Japan 2014)
No.7 (C/E - symbols 2014)