失眠症候野地創作
藝術家：Kustaa Saksi
策展人：草字頭
2015/3/19-3/29, siu siu Lab
Hypnopompic 是一種介於入睡（半睡）或甦醒（半醒）間，感官在超現實與現實間游移的曖昧狀態。藝術家Kustaa Saksi擁有了這樣的家族遺傳體質，作品中捕捉在半睡半醒之際超現實與現實間的魔幻，化作層層堆疊的視覺圖像，勾勒出一幅又一幅的奇異幻境。
利用法國查卡提花織機技法，以嫘縈、金屬線、羊駝毛、毛海等織料，把擅長的平面插畫鉤築轉化成令人驚艷的大型掛毯。當意識遊走於睡與醒、超現實與現實的臨界邊緣，蜘蛛、猴子等昆蟲動物沿線匍匐，交織出一網網微暈眩和偏頭痛的迷幻世界。
Hypnopompic Revielle by Kustaa Saksi
Artist: Kustaa Saksi
Curator: DOUBLE-GRASS
2015/3/19 -3/29, siu siu Lab
(Sorry, the english translation is under constructing...)
【Artist】
古斯塔薩克希
出生於1975年，芬蘭當代藝術家/設計師，擅長以平面圖騰、織品藝術和裝置表現充滿故事性的場景。幾年前，難眠體質驅動了他的 Hypnopompic 系列創作，利用法國查卡提花織機技法，以嫘縈、金屬線、羊駝毛、毛海等織料，把擅長的平面插畫鉤築轉化成令人驚艷的大型掛毯。當意識遊走於睡與醒、超現實與現實的臨界邊緣，蜘蛛、猴子等昆蟲動物沿線匍匐，交織出一網網微暈眩和偏頭痛的迷幻世界。
Kustaa Saksi
Kustaa Saksi is a Finnish contemporary artist and designer (b. 1975) specialising in graphic storytelling through pattern design, textile art and installation. He builds fantastical worlds of playful, paradoxical and troubling yet inviting shapes and environments pulled out of the ordinary. Combining organic qualities with uniquely detailed textures with rich colour palettes and experimental material use, Saksi is interested in developing contemporary spaces, objects and atmospheres. Saksi’s artworks have been exhibited at galleries and museums in New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Singapore, Berlin, Madrid, Milan and Tokyo. Saksi has produced commissioned artworks for companies such as Nike, Issey Miyake, Levi’s, Mandarina Duck, Lacoste, LVMH, Hugo Boss and Marimekko.
Photo credit: Fixer, Frank Huang, Tara Kan, siu siu