Anna Hrachovec "Greetings from Mochimochi"
gallery hanahou
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Craft artist Anna Hrachovec unveils a hand-knitted installation made out of 200 balls of yarn and more than a million stitches.
In her first solo show, craft artist Anna Hrachovec stretches the possibilities of knitting as a medium to create an expansive and wacky landscape installation. Crash-landed aliens, rat-infested skyscrapers, giant ants, and everything else that comprises the 8-foot installation is entirely hand-knitted by the artist, who used 200 balls of yarn and more than a million stitches to make it all come to life. And just for fun, the piece includes a working model train – converted into a silly knitted monster, of course!
Some of the elements in the piece are based on designs in Anna’s 2010 book of knitted toy patterns, Knitting Mochimochi.
Anna Hrachovec is a Brooklyn-based designer and craft artist who combines a wacky sense of humor, unusual design elements, and Japanese kawaii aesthetics to create knitted toys that all ages can get excited about. After growing bored with her hobby of knitting scarves and hats a few years back, since 2007 she has been making bathtubs, stacking cats, and other seriously silly toys out of yarn and needles.
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from October 07, 2010 to October 29, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-10-07 from 19:00 to 21:00