Pasarela Con Papel April 19, 2009

Opening: 19/4 by Linda Grandia, Miss Holland 1992, President of the Gausachs Art Fundation, Co-founder of the LAKMA Latin American Art Museum of Amersfoort (Netherlands)

The textile and jewelry designer, Argentine-Dutch Luis Acosta graduated in 1988 at the textile department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

He has participated in group and individual exhibitions in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Germany, Finland, Italy, England, Portugal, Denmark, Argentina and Holland.

He has published several articles among which are those dealing with its own method of textile design in the Dutch magazine Textiel Plus and Spanish Oficio+arte.

Translated Dutch to Spanish the book Si'ira (woven belt of the Wayuu Indians) by Mirja Wark.

He has curated and has served on the jury of several exhibitions in Spain and Netherlands.

Participates in a founding circle of members and co-curator of the LAKMA, Latin American Art Museum of Amersfoort (Netherlands), which will open this year.

As a designer he is particulary interested in forms. Once a form is found, he enlarges or repeats it. Then he concentrates on using the possibilities of that form as a basis to develop a design.

It's important to work with both shapes and colour. The first gives dimension to the design while the second provides warmth. One way of doing this, is to 'play' with a shape and several layers of different coloured materials, which sometimes gives rise to an intriguing hybridization, conjuring up the impression of something plaited.

The jewellery were created by repeating a simple basic shape.
Sometimes he uses the same basic shape for different pieces of jewellery by making a simple adjustment which results in a new design. He used stitched material consisting of several layers of different sort and colours paper.
The stiffness is developped as the number of layers of paper or paper threads is stitched together.Tickets: http://www.artesinlimites.eu

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