Aboubacar Fofana Indigo - Indigo Dyer Aboubakar Fofana On His Kind Of Blue Hole Corner

Each piece uses the traditional indigo dye process. About Aboubakar Fofana from the Dara Artisans website.

Artisan Textiles And Indigo With Aboubakar Fofana Textile Center

A biochemical technology as Fofana himself puts it which involves bacteria water and plants peculiarly indigo actually originates in green in the leaves of the indigofera tinctoria shrub.

Aboubacar fofana indigo. Organic indigo dyeing as it is practised by Aboubakar Fofana a Frenchman of Malian extraction is beyond fashion trend and digitisation yet remains a technology. 10 Day Intensive 6th-17th June- Fermented Indigo Powdered Indigo Mud and Mordanted Dyes. Les secrets de lindigo par le designer textile Aboubakar Fofana.

The blue in the first American flags was made from indigo. This workshop focuses on the use of powdered indigo and setting up a fructose vat using entirely non-synthetic and environmentally and skin. By Nicole LaBouff associate curator of textiles at Mia and Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers curator of African art at Mia and head of the Department of the Arts of Africa and the Americas This past May Mia welcomed Malian artist Aboubakar Fofana.

Aboubakar Fofana is a calligrapher artist textile designer and master indigo dyer. Born in Mali in 1967 Aboubakar Fofana left the African continent at an early age for Paris. Watch this short video of a young apprentice at work.

Celebrated indigo artist Aboubaka Fofana visited Los Angeles over the summer. Sat 16th Nov 2019 - Tue 19th Nov 2019. Exposition Mood Indigo salon Maison Objet janvier 2011.

Aboubakar is based in Mali and France and updated us on his latest projects including cotton cultivation in Mali. After years of study and practice in Mali Guinea Burkina Faso Senegal Ivory Coast and Japan he is now one of the worlds foremost practitioners of fermented indigo vat dyeing and mineral mud-dyeing techniques. Born in Bamako Mali he now travels frequently between there Paris where he has lived for over 30 years and Tokyo.

This work is based on the 12 tones of indigo which a Malian indigo dyer must master in order to be considered a true artisan. Honey and bananas are favourites. Malian artist Aboubakar Fofana examines Mias West African textiles August 9 2018.

Mia plans to reinstall the Charleston rooms with a focus on the use and cultivation of indigo including Fofanas work. Monday June 6 2016 900 AM 0900 Friday June 17 2016 500 PM 1700. Fofanas founding discipline was calligraphy.

Indigo surrounds us perhaps more than any other textile dyeits the blue of thousand-year-old religious rites and our modern jeans once used as literal currency and in revolutionary symbols. Limited to 12 people. Save this story for later.

Umajati Retreat - Jalan Subak Uma Petulu Lebah Ubud 80571. Aboubakar Fofana brings his Malian heritage to several extended workshops exploring the refinement of the dyers art with a particular focus on indigo and mud dyeing. Aboubakar Fofana creates home textiles from hand-spun hand-woven silk and cotton in his studio in Bamako Mali.

Aboubakar Fofanas 4-day Indigo Sugar Vat Workshop. For a short time only if youre lucky enough to be in Melbourne you can see Aboubakar Fofanas works and buy his pieces at Hermon and Hermon. Diaporama Cityzen Cats.

Fofanas assessment of Mias textiles included sniffing them. A small group of us had the opportunity to join him at UCLAs Fowler Museum for a talk on his recent work. Artisan Textiles and Indigo with Aboubakar Fofana Thursday Oct 24 2019 5 7 pm Free open to all Textile Center Thank you for joining us in welcoming international artist Aboubakar Fofana from Mali to Textile Center for a special pop-up gallery event featuring the indigo-dyed textiles for which he is known and celebrated around the world.

Indigo is often discussed in terms of Indigofera one common genus of indigo-bearing plants but Fofana believes that the appropriate context for capturing the magic of indigo is best expressed through the Bambara Malis lingua franca words for it the gala yiri lonchocarpus cyanescens and gala yirini indigofera arrecta that he knew in his childhood. Linen panels fermented vegetable indigo. He also talked about his indigo farm exhibits and the workshops he is teaching with Botanical Colors this spring and summer.

Indigo surrounds us perhaps more than any other textile dyeits the blue of thousand-year-old religious rites and our modern jeans once used as literal currency and in revolutionary symbols. This weeks FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with indigo master dyer and multidisciplinary artist Aboubakar Fofana. Aboubakar Fofana is a calligrapher artist textile designer and natural dyer specializing in indigo cloth using ancient techniques indigenous to West Africa.

Aboubakar Fofana has found art in the ancient tradition of indigo dyeing. Indigo is a living blue artist Aboubakar Fofana explains. Fascinated by the sign and the trace he drew on Western and Eastern traditions to help him master his medium.

All aspects of it are done by hand its a long process with starts with the indigo plant indigenous cotton and fermenting the indigo whilst feeding it Yes feeding it. From tabletop linens to ombré tents Aboubakar Fofanas indigo-dyed designs are spectacularly unique. It in an exploration of those 12 tones and the myriad possibilities that can be used to exploit the qualities of indigo and produce patterning.

Aboubakar describes himself as a social entrepreneur and his atelier in Mali employs about 100 people. 30 years on Fofana is still in awe of and humbled by the beauty of nature and is as wide-eyed as he was then as he recounts his story of the fateful day that he discovered the indigo hue. 0800 am - 0600 pm.

Aboubakar Fofana shared with us the process for indigo dying in its traditional sustainable art form. Aboubakar Fofana Indigo dyer artist textile designer calligrapher and teacher Aboubakar Fofana is best known for his sublime indigo and mineral mud-dyed textiles. Photographed by Gentl Hyers.

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