Juan Manuel collaborated with Officina39 and Berto Industria Tessile who presented for the first time – RECYCROM [...] A great achievement for both companies which presents a new era for dyestuffs.
He also had the chance to take part to our special project RECYCROM, featuring our fabrics and a lot of creativity. Here his quote about this Indigo experience between Art and Sustainability.
“Juan Manuel collaborated with Officina39 and Berto Industria Tessile who presented for the first time – RECYCROM made with leftovers, reprocessing the scraps and transforming the textile fibers into colored powder. A great achievement for both companies which presents a new era for dyestuffs.
Juan Manuel gave his expression to this industrial ensemble with his limitless creativity bringing the Recycrom product to life. The fabric was his canvas and the indigo powder his brush. His day job is in a denim Laundry in Columbia, and I have said for a long time that many people I have met who work in laundries are artists as well as chemists and Juan Manuel has taken this a step further, utilising all his skills to make this impressive work.
Rubbing, engraving, marking, dipping, disassembling, bleaching, blocking, inking, dyeing, printmaking and working with laser, all with this 100% recycled colour made for beautiful textured work. He had also made them into bags, and rather than use mine I think it will be framed.
Juan Manual is one talented and more importantly, awesome guy. We’ve have been friends for some time, but this trip really cemented it. I am looking forward to our next meeting (he was even so good to come and watch my soccer team at 6am in a NY bar…we lost).”
Credit Cover Picture: Lisa Kato.
