SUNSET
Alejandra Gandía-Blasco
Hand-knotting the colours as daylight fades
The SUNSET rug, hand-knotted in wool, translates the study of light and its materiality carried out by Alejandra Gandía-Blasco into a design object. With SUNSET, the interdisciplinary creative takes another step in her exploration of making the intangible tangible. In sunset you can see and touch the result of transferring one of Alejandra Gandía-Blasco’s artistic works, "Sunset in Ibiza 19.34 October 2015", to a piece of contemporary craftsmanship. Thousands of knots in wool, precisely worked row by row, run through a spectrum of 12 reddish and orange tones.
“A sunset is a constellation of emotions, is the light at the beginning or end of the day, a fleeting moment that is never repeated and that marks our days, it is a sundial that refers to the passing of time. The light is never the same, it is conditioned by the coordinates of the place, the weather conditions, and the purity or contamination of the environment. I find very difficult to capture such a sublime and volatile moment. I believe that just art and craftsmanship can provoke these sensations.”
- Alejandra Gandía-Blasco
- Alejandra Gandía-Blasco
