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Aiko Tezuka

Rewoven#04, 2017, Unravelled fabric, wooden frame, 200.5x 230x 95 cm

Detail

Fragile Surface (daydream), 2017, 51x31cm, United fabric

Skim 1 (2007)


Aiko Tezuka, Bag (mending) 1, 2016, 60x54cm

Painting - Sculpture - Textile (Embroidery)

Aiko Tezuka's practice is based on fabrics and she often uses Gobelin tapestries, Indian fabrics, and old tablecloths. She studied classical painting and her works are similar to physically collapsed paintings in which the 'paintings' are reinterpreted as three-dimensional entities. In her works, she challenges with the meaning of fabrics, the cultural heritage, the origin of motifs and the globalised market of industrial productions.

She is influenced by the Japanese Mono-ha movement in the 1980s. It was an important group of Japanese sculptors who used the elemental materials, with a Zen-like aesthetics, primal forces (e.g. fire) and artistic processes such as carving, burning, deconstruction or reconstruction their artwork to add a new layer of meaning in their practice. Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, and Kimsooja are her reference artists.

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