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SUMMARY:Living with Japanese Bamboo Art - NAGOMI
DESCRIPTION:Wamono art proposes a lifestyle of Nagomi through spaces featuring bamboo art. Nagomi is a Japanese concept that represents harmony\, calm\, serenity\, and a sense of well-being. It embodies a sense of stillness and balance within ourselves and our surroundings. Creating contemporary and original bamboo sculpture requires years of skill and a deep understanding of natural materials. This is an exquisite form of natural art that has developed almost exclusively in Japan. \nIn recent years\, luxury brands have been reevaluating handwork art. In an age where humans may eventually lose their jobs to AI\, handmade creations are what attract people. Also\, COVID-19 has changed people’s behavior and lifestyles. With more time spent digitally\, people have become more aware of the physical spaces they spend their time in. Furthermore\, as the speed of our internet society has accelerated due to digitalization\, people are beginning to seek a different flow of time and a different meaning in life. Japanese bamboo art requires mastering techniques\, understanding materials\, and long production times\, which is a concept that stands in stark contrast to the rush that is so prevalent these days. Slow art using the natural material of bamboo represents the concept of Nagomi of our time. \nThis exhibition is available by advance reservation.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/living-with-japanese-bamboo-art-nagomi/
LOCATION:Wamono Art\, Unit A\, 10/F\, Derrick Industrial Building\, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road\, Southern\, Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Seiju Toda: HEIAN
DESCRIPTION:wamono art is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Seiju Toda\, one of Japan’s leading art directors and a fine artist. The exhibition features a body of works from Toda’s signature HEIAN series. \nThe title “Heian” corresponds to a name of period in the middle age in Japan from the 8th to the 12th Century. However\, with the title\, Toda has never intended to provoke any nostalgia for that period. Instead\, such elements as light\, color\, humidity\, air and tenderness that the word Heian evokes in artist mind are the motivation of the project along with a hope the world today would reevaluate peace and well-being\, that are just what the word Heian means. The concept of the creation is “subtraction.” Because the act of subtraction\, as opposed to that of addition\, can make things simple to stimulate people’s imagination. In fact\, this is the very virtue of Japanese spirit of beauty. The materials are all “raw things” such as plain wood\, living creatures and natural light. The shooting was done on a cloudy day at midday. The camera aperture is wide open and the distance from the subject is about 7-8 meters. The images are shot in a way that makes you feel as if you are watching with your own eyes open. Due to the difficult condition to have\, it took three years of shooting before he accomplished the project. \nThis HEIAN series is featured in his solo exhibitions at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2005 and at the Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art in 2023. In 2008\, HEIAN‘s works were exhibited at the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit in Japan. \nToda has been challenging himself with a variety of works he was a teenager. In this HEIAN series\, he pursues simple expression with the concept of “subtraction”\, which will invite the viewers to the new imaginations.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/seiju-toda-heian/
LOCATION:Wamono Art\, Unit A\, 10/F\, Derrick Industrial Building\, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road\, Southern\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Photography
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SUMMARY:JAPONISMES – Art of Bamboo\, Glass and Urushi
DESCRIPTION:Wamono art is excited to showcase some of its collections and works of artists who are introduced in the exhibitions in Paris\, France in 2018 as a part of the “Japonismes 2018: les âmes en resonance” which was a joint project between Japan and France in commemoration of the 160th anniversary of friendship between France and Japan. \nIn this exhibition\, some works and artists exhibited at “Japon Japonismes. Objets inspirés\, 1867-2018” at Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and “Fendre l’air\, Art du bamboo au Japon” in Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac are showed. In addition\, works related to those participated artists are also exhibited to illustrate the wide variety of the aesthetic impressions of Japanese art. \nThis group exhibition covers bamboo\, glass and urushi artists including Kazutoshi KIZAKI\, Yukito NISHINAKA\, Kenji TOKI\, Jin MORIGAMI\, Tokuzo SHONO\, Kei HASEGAWA\, Masaya Ike and Hideaki Honma. \nPart of the French May Arts Festival 2024
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/japonismes-art-of-bamboo-glass-and-urushi/
LOCATION:Wamono Art\, Unit A\, 10/F\, Derrick Industrial Building\, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road\, Southern\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Crafts
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SUMMARY:Yuki Onodera: Here\, No Balloon
DESCRIPTION:This will be the first exhibition in Hong Kong by internationally renowned Japanese artist Yuki Onodera\, who has been based in Paris for just three decades. Onodera is known for singular experimental works that employ photography as their medium\, but extend beyond its bounds to encompass an astonishing variety of expression that includes collages measuring several metres\, and the use of drip painting techniques. \nwamono art will present Onodera’s 2022 Here\, No Balloon series\, which takes as its theme the bronze hot-air balloon monument by Bartholdi that once stood in the Porte des Ternes in Paris\, but was melted down and lost to posterity in the 1940s. \nPhotographing the location as it is today\, sans this monument\, Onodera utilises new Ricoh StareReap technology to add vibrant 2.5D prints several millimetres thick to the surface of two-metre gelatin silver prints she has processed by hand\, in an unusual\, one-of-a-kind series that throws into relief the fusion and collision of handmade photo and digital technology. Also on display will be other new and master works offering insight into one side of this artist’s incredibly broad practice. \nAssociated project of the French May Arts Festival 2023.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/yuki-onodera-here-no-balloon/
LOCATION:Wamono Art\, Unit A\, 10/F\, Derrick Industrial Building\, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road\, Southern\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Photography
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SUMMARY:Jin Morigami: Bamboo and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:wamono art is proud to announce BAMBOO AND BEYOND\, a solo exhibition by Jin Morigami\, one of the most prominent Japanese bamboo artists of our time. Structured around the artist’s two signature series of Nawame ami (Twining plaiting) series and Mutsume ami(Hexagonal plating) series\, this exhibition brings together for the first time in Asia the comprehensive works of Jin Morigami. \nInternationally admired and collected\, Jin Morigami (b. 1955\, Japan) was born to several generations of bamboo-craft families. Surrounded by the bamboo crafts\, it was very natural for him to start playing with and eventually crafting bamboo as young as three years old\, and by now he has more than sixty years of experience. While the length of his career in bamboo art is exceptional\, Morigami is known to have devoted his life to creating many varied bamboo works. Over the years\, he has become one of the most skillful bamboo artists in Japan. His achievements\, however\, are not only in his skill\, but in taking his bamboo works beyond mere craft. To pursue his aesthetic\, Morigami is not hesitant to turn away from traditional styles and accept unprecedent challenges. Morigami shed the traditional bamboo styles of heaviness and thickness. He has created a completely new style which is characterized by translucency and lightness. This can be especially seen in one of his signature series\, Nawame ami. Asked about this series\, he mentioned that “I want to be in the state of being open and free minded towards things”. The very open spirit of Morigami towards his creation together with his skills made it possible to reach the level of fine art. \nHis fame reached its highest point when one of his Nawame ami works was added to the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, USA in 2010 as the first contemporary Japanese bamboo artist represented. However\, Morigami is not driven by where his works are collected and exhibited. He is a person who is solely driven by his inner artistic interests. Morigami said “I wanted to try something completely different from Nawame ami series”. He started to work on Mutsume ami series which requires one of the most difficult techniques in bamboo weaving even for seasoned artists. He continued “when I am working on Mutsume ami series\, it is like solving very difficult puzzles”. The challenge of Mutsume ami series lies in its shape. The repetition of simple geometrical patterns of Mutsume ami series looks like it easily leads to any forms the artist wishes to bring. The formation of Mutsume ami is free from any boundaries or limitations set by bamboo as a material. In reality\, the formation of Mutsume ami series is very complex. Morigami describes how he works on Mutsume ami : “I start with only a rough idea of the shape\, I don’t know where the bamboo takes me until I complete the work”. Despite this struggle\, viewers will not see any traces of the battles between the artist and bamboo in this beautiful work – it only shows how Morigami even goes beyond the boundaries of bamboo and create forms freely\, which truly reflects Morigami’s spirit.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/jin-morigami-bamboo-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Wamono Art\, Unit A\, 10/F\, Derrick Industrial Building\, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road\, Southern\, Hong Kong
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