A short interview video featuring artist Aythamy Armas in his Barcelona studio, drawing with charcoal on a blank canvas. His rug design, 1212/21 – Aythamy Armas, is shown in a calm, minimal setting, visually echoing the charcoal marks on canvas. Transcript from the interview: “The sounds when I'm painting is always there, it's present. At the end, the painting is like a guitar or a piano or something similar. In that sense, the moving of the body is guiding the project on the canvas. Five or six years ago, when I started to work in this kind of abstraction, I decided to use the fabric and charcoal as my essential tools. When we started to talk about the project, one of the most important issues was to think on how to translate the painting into the rug. I understand the painting as a landscape. It's built with different layers, like the atmospheric purpose tip. Using different techniques, you can give to the painting this feeling of depth. Step by step, I started to add different techniques. When you work in black, you can use many different materials and techniques, and it's always black.”
Limited Canvas by Aythamy Armas
Through monochrome layers and rhythmic strokes, the artist Aythamy Armas reimagines his signature artworks onto a hand-knotted canvas made from the highest quality of New Zealand wool.
The art piece titled 1212/21, creates a one-of-a-kind collection of graphic rugs of only 59 editions, each signed by the artist. Inspired by the artist’s painting techniques, reinterpreted for the art of rug making.
Aythamy Armas, Barcelona, Spain.
Aythamy Armas, Barcelona, Spain.
1212/21 Aythamy Armas, Barcelona, Spain.
Merging modern minimalism with an abstract approach to art, Aythamy Armas creates monochrome worlds that are left to the viewer’s interpretation.
