Sweet memories: I love seing my Tristan rug (2019) in the cover of ASUN magazine back in 2021 (https://www.asun.fi/tuote/asun-lehti-2-2021/).
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Impressionist Rugs
Textile artworks by Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen
Concept of the film by Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen & Eeva Suorlahti
Filmography and lightning by Eeva Suorlahti
Performance by Nina Aspinen
Music by Benjamin G***
2018
Bagatelles
8mm film made by Nina Aspinen and Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen. Thank you for music Benjamin G*** and filming assisting by Mikko Aspinen.
The House of Love 12–16.9.
I was part of Talentshop18 curated show with other magnificent artist/designers; Teemu Salone, Teemu Perttunen and Hanna Särökaari. It was a lovely experience and I also had a change to show some of my art pieces on Skanno/Asun stand. That was truly the highlight of the fair. Now I am constantly dreaming of my own Ligne Roset sofa. Oh, those dreams….
Broken Flowers in Milan Design Week 2018/ Ventura Future
I was happy to be part of the Milan Design Week again this year. It was a wonderful experience. I exhibited my rugs and ceramics (and flowers) in FuturDome building, Via Giovanni Paisiello 6. I was presenting my rugs and ceramics called "Broken Flowers in the House of Beauty" inspired by the famous French painter Claude Monet, especially his Water Lilies painting series in Orangerie Museum and his garden in Giverny, France.
Milanese weather was amazing and there was a glutein-free bakery in the opposite side of the street. I can't count the number of focaccias, pizzas and dolcis eaten during the fair. Delicious! Pitty I don't have images from there... but well, here are couple from my exhibition. and yes, I though I was taking part of "Milan Flower Week 2018", so crazy I went while selecting flowers to go with my ceramics! Arrivederci!
The Art of Research VI Conference
I will be presenting my first published paper Monet and me – The story of an inspiration.
Here is an extract:
"Every practitioner faces moments when the work is not advancing well and enthusiasm is lost. During these moments, merely the thought of my sources of inspiration gave me the necessary desire to go on with my work. I felt no loneliness, but instead a sense of belonging between me and my sources of inspiration. I had managed to build an entire imaginary universe of the bits and pieces that I had come across during my research, and this supported the empty moments of the process of creation. This, then, is the most powerful discovery: visiting Monet’s garden gave me a site-specific memory and an imaginary home for my inspiration process. This vision was transformed further during my process while following my needs and ideals. For me, Giverny represented a place of eternal summer just like it was when I last visited it and as it was in my photographs. Some moments when I was lacking serenity, I opened the imaginary door to silent, oval halls of Orangerie filled with water lilies. In my imagination, the garden of Giverny and the museum of Orangerie were situated side by side. I had ended up by creating a miniature utopia of my own; imagination is a forceful tool."
My rug Broken flowers will be presented for the first time in the conference exhibition.
http://artofresearch2017.aalto.fi
Broken flowers rug (2017, hand-tufted, 200cm x 135cm). Photo by Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen, 2017.
Special Jury’s Mention from International Textile Competition
My rug project received a Special Jury’s Mention from 2017 Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize in NYC yesterday. I feel honoured! This is how the jury described my work:
"Also giving reference to the rain, Hanna-Kaisa’s The House of Rain is a sumptuously-soft range of rugs and cushions in mohair that are a cosy antidote to today’s difficult times. Hanna-Kaisa wanted to see how sketches made with water could be developed into textiles and how sources of inspiration influence the process and the outcome.
Her textile’s surface resembles thick, dense fur where original motifs are blurred and almost disappear, because of the richness of the material. When brushed open, the mohair becomes organic and almost animal-like, it even feels warm. Its three-dimensional surface seems active as if it was alive and reaching out."
Thank you Jury and Studio Edelkoort, which curated the competition!
Exhibition will be open until 24th of September in the The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY. If you go, please sent me photos!
Finalist in the Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize 2017
Good news, my rug project was selected as finalist in the international competition, Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize 2017 curated by Edelkoort Inc. Actually my "scratched series" jacquard blanket was finalist already in 2015, but this time around it is a bigger project. I am very happy to tell that my works will be in the exhibition in New York from 14–24.9.2017 (The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY). as part of the New York Textile Month's Talking Textiles happening.
http://www.trendtablet.com/4155-talking-textiles/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talking-textiles-conference-september-2017-tickets-34293273103
Orangerie – Paradis
Orangerie is one of my favourite places on earth. I can return there again and again. The guardians of exhibition are so funny, they are all the time saying SHHH SHHH, as you are suppose to be silent in this sanctuary. Can you imagine that Monet actually painted these paintings as a gift for French nation? Master Monet; this oeuvre that was his last is bursting with passion and modernity!
Photos: Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen
Last year at Tekstiili16 exhibition Helsinki, Kaapelitehdas
Hello, I wanted to share with an image of my textile collection HawaiiKawaii, that I made in collaboration with fashion designer David Szeto. All prints were made with fingerprinting and if I remember correctly, I spent whole 3 weeks painting these during summer 2015. This image is from Tekstiili16 May 2016, that I had an honour to participate.
Photo: Eeva Suorlahti
