Video: Multicolored spider web: openwork weaving by Akiko Ikeuchi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Looking at the openwork weaving of fine silk threads, made by the Japanese craftswoman Akiko Ikeuchi, one involuntarily recalls the myth of Arachne, a needlewoman who competed with the goddess Athena herself. Modern morality to the ancient legend is this: it is not necessary to feel the wrath of the gods in order to create beautiful cobweb installations.
I wonder if there are, by analogy with arachnophobes, arachnophiles - people who love spiders and their "creativity" of truly delicate work? Installations by Akiko Ikeuchi would clearly delight the latter. Or they would have recruited new admirers of openwork weaving.
Airy works of art, similar to ghost nests, tornado funnels and thin icicles, represent an attempt to imitate nature in its simple and at the same time perfect forms (the cloud-molecule of Tara Donovan, which we already wrote about earlier, was created in much the same way) …
44-year-old Akiko Ikeuchi was born in Tokyo. Here, in the Japanese capital, she graduated from the University of Fine Arts and Music, and eventually defended her doctorate in painting. For two decades, the craftswoman traveled with her openwork sculptures to Japan and Korea and even waved overseas to exhibit in New York.
Akiko Ikeuchi's spider-web installations are created from the finest silk threads. Despite the fact that they look quite natural, in fact, the place of each of their elements has been calculated and verified. The craftswoman carefully thinks over the chaotic (at first glance) arrangement of the knots and keeps in her head, like an experienced architect, the blueprint of the projected building.
The language does not dare to call ethereal, translucent art objects things. Rather, this openwork weaving represents the ghosts of things or their ideas, just like in Plato. The ancient Greek philosopher, who is still a friend to us, until the zealots of truth grabbed by the collar, for the first time doubled the sublunary world, crowding out reality.
Plato found among rivers, plains and city-states a place for ideas - the essence of objects and phenomena, practically ethereal perfection. Almost the same is done by artists, creating on a sinful earth that which expresses the essence of anything - works of art about everything in the world.
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