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Dutch artist and designer Jeroen Vinken has a practice that spans the worlds of commercial design and art. His engagement with Jacquard weaving began in 1999 with the support of the Dutch Textile Museum in Tilburg.

Posted 28 April 2015

Jeroen Vinken

Vinken was the first artist to develop a new woven collection on the centre’s Jacquard looms and explains his interests lie in “developing things that do not exist yet”.[i] In his commercial design work a new series of Jacquard woven curtain fabric entitled “Mazzo” have recently been developed under the company name Henskin.



[i] Jeroen Vinken quotes, unless otherwise stated, from author’s interview May 25, 2011.

JEROEN VINKEN - diagonali 4 - 2014 jacquard 640 x 275 cm

Imagery is based on a bouquet altered in a photo editor by layering, blurring, stretching and pixelating the original design. The collection’s colour ways are the result of variations in saturation and lightness of the design’s three basic hues of red, green and blue. Measuring 150 cm wide, the repeat varies from 36 to 96 meters. The extreme length means every curtain cut to order is essentially bespoke as it captures a different portion of the enormous repeat. 

JEROEN VINKEN - exercise 4 - 2007-2008 jacquard - 155 X 215 cm

JEROEN VINKEN - incanto 1 - 2010 jacquard - 155 X 215 cm

JEROEN VINKEN - incanto 3 - 2010 jacquard - 155 X 215 cm

Throughout Vinken’s work the “possibilities of photorealism” often appear by way of visual juxtapositions based on photographic collages. While “Mazzo” challenges the technical limitations of designing a repeat pattern for industry, his artistic practice explores more intimate themes. The floral motif is perhaps the most ubiquitous and familiar pattern for textile design, but Vinken unsettles this familiarity by creating what he describes as “bouquets with human limbs”.[i] These works from 2010 are part of an on going series named “Incanto”, Italian for “Enchantment”. In these the imagery is surprising: body parts are intertwined with plants, suggestive of a latent fertility present in all living things. Vinken explains, “what fascinates me is . . . on the one hand a ‘soul’ being present in all living things, but at the same time something of impotence and hopelessness . . . a ‘love in vain’ perhaps.”[ii]



[i] Jeroen Vinken email correspondence August 4, 2011.
[ii] Jeroen Vinken email correspondence August 15, 2011.

JEROEN VINKEN - knopen 4 - 2006 jacquard – 155 X 215 cm

JEROEN VINKEN - rode diagonale 5 - 2012 jacquard – 310 X 275 cm

JEROEN VINKEN - limbs 3 - 2007 jacquard – 155 X 215 cm

The unexpected combinations can make the viewer feel like something of a voyeur, encouraged to stare but not convinced that their interpretation should be admitted to others. As Brigitte de Swart observes, “running through Jeroen’s oeuvre is an association with the erotic . . . Layer by layer they peel away the raw illusions of the soul and blur limitations and traditional values.”[i] Vinken is reticent to explain the imagery, but confirms, “The ‘meeting’ of different elements fascinates me,”[ii] “this tension between the masculine and feminine, tenderness and hardness, vulnerability and power.”[iii]
Jessica Hemmings



[i] Brigitte de Swart, Jeroen Vinken, Beeldrecht Amsterdam, pp. 21.
[ii] Op. Cit.
[iii] Jeroen Vinken email correspondence August 8, 2011.


More information:
www.jeroenvinken.nl

JEROEN VINKEN,  MAZZO MODESTO - 5000 x 2560 cm

JEROEN VINKEN,  MAZZO SFUMATO – 5000 x 2560 cm

JEROEN VINKEN, MAZZO QUADRETTATO – 5000 x 2560 cm

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