Nine metres of red and white spiral, turning slowly in a Copenhagen garden. It's the opening gesture of Henrik Vibskov's largest exhibition to date.
The structure was created by Vibskov, and it's called The Umbrico Spiral, installed at Design museum Danmark ahead of Henrik Vibskov: The Exhibition, which opens on 18 September and runs until 21 February 2027. Vibskov has spent twenty-five years building a body of work where fashion, sculpture, sound and costume vibrate with one another, each borrowing colour and rhythm from the last until the lines between them blur.
Henrik Vibskov, Spring Summer 2023, Copenhagen Fashion Week.
Vibskov trained at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2001, and has since produced more than fifty collections, shown at institutions from MoMA to Palais de Tokyo. For textile readers, the appeal isn't the fashion-week gloss but what sits underneath it: an approach to cloth as raw material for building whole imagined worlds. The Copenhagen show will include 44 display cases of objects, prototypes and studio ephemera, alongside large-scale installations visitors can wander through...
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Lead: Henrik Vibskov, The Umbrico Spiral, Black timber frame wrapped in red textile spirals, stretched over aluminium and left to react to Copenhagen's weather. Photo: James Cochrane
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