KOJI TAKAKI Born 1954
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Koji Takaki trained as a dyer and in his work he is making a reverse journey, taking the finished cloth back to its original threads, revealing the structure of the textile. His work is concerned with light and air which he explores through the use of linen thread, water-soluble film and polypropylene. These works have a quality of membrane or skin stretched between the skeleton of stitch. The water-soluble film has been washed away revealing the underpinning structure of the accumulated threads. Hung to move in the air, sometimes in windows against the light their transparency gives an illusion of fragility.
Studied
- Kyoto City University of Art 1981
Current Teaching Status
- Assoc. Professor, Kyoto University of Art & Design
Recent Exhibitions Include
Solo
- 1997 Gallery 16, Kyoto
- 1998 Gallery Gallery, Kyoto
- Show Women's University Gallery, Tokyo
- 1999 5th Space, Kyoto
Group
- 1995 Textile Miniature Works touring Belgium, Canada, Australia
- 1996 Triennale Miniature Textile, Angers Museum, France
- 1998 Art Festival Kyoto, Kikoku-tei, Kyoto
- Imaginations '98' Gastuiskapel, Poperinge, Belgium
- Folding' Japanese Miniatures Canberra Museum Australia
- 1999 International Textile Competition, Kyoto
- 2001 Kimono as Canpas, Gallery East, Perth & touring Australia
- Also 1985 Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland
Category of Work
- Installation
Materials
- Cotton cloth, linen, polypropylene, soluble film [top]
