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AMÉLIE DAUTEUR – "Tsumugi"

AMÉLIE DAUTEUR – "Tsumugi"

€624,95 EUR
€624,95 EUR
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2026
6/12
Painted ceramic on a wooden  base
Height: 38 cm

TSUMUGI

The word tsumugi (紬) names both a gesture and a fabric: it comes from the verb tsumugu (紡ぐ), "to spin," the act of drawing continuous thread from raw, broken fiber. Traditionally, tsumugi silk was woven not from perfect cocoons but from waste ones — irregular, slubbed, refused by finer trades. What could not be unwound cleanly was instead spun by hand into something coarser, warmer, marked by its own history.

This etymology carries an aesthetic lineage. It resonates with the mingei philosophy articulated by Yanagi Sōetsu in the 1920s and 30s, which found in the unpolished object of daily use — the mended, the irregular, the handmade — a beauty that industrial perfection could not reach. Tsumugi belongs to that same order of things: value born not despite imperfection, but through it.

With this totem, Amélie Dauteur takes up spinning as a figure for continuity itself — the way a life, like a thread, is pieced together from what survives intact and what does not. The body here is neither seamless nor broken; it is spun, thread by thread, out of its own remnants.

TSUMUGI does not ask to be smooth. It asks: what have you gathered from what was left unfinished?
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  • BEFORE R2OT

    Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he specialized in sculpture, Krzysztof Renes creates works that exist at the boundary between figure and abstraction, tradition and modernity. His works are held in collections in Poland and internationally.

  • WHY DO WE LOVE IT

    Because his work holds two worlds at once — the hand of a craftsman and the mind of an engineer, the human figure and pure abstraction.

  • OUR ADVICE

    Place your sculpture on a nice postument, preferably mixed with darker tones.

Krzysztof Renes

Krzysztof Renes is one of the most talented and recognizable sculptors of the younger generation, who implements and develops his own techniques and reaches for industrial solutions, confronting them with the traditional language of sculpture. All his works are a form of dualism, operating on the border between figure and abstraction, tradition and modernity, culture and
nature. He explores the two-dimensional space in sculpture, where flat and three-dimensional sketching, drawing and sculpture are the same, 2D = 3D.In his works, he looks for cultural features that reflect their origins and boundaries in technological and cultural dimensions. These considerations are particularly evident in the Universale series. And although almost all works refer to the human image, for the author his art is not exclusively figurative art. The processed body here is a carrier of content, symbols or
emotions - a sign in space. Commercially, he collaborates with the sports market and business, creating awards and statuettes for elite events such as the Forbes 50 Most Influential People in Polish Sports or the Imagine Yourself film competition sponsored by the Starak Family Foundation. His sculptures feed art collections in Poland and abroad.

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Krzysztof Renes