December 10th, 2012 · 1 Comment
I came across this exhibit by Nobuhito Nishigawara by chance walking through the Lower East Side. I don’t have any strong attachment to Asian art but the metal and terracotta animal sculpture I saw at Tally Beck captured my heart. The playful and quirky conception of each animal is nothing if not fresh and inspiring while the materials and basic iconography, on the other hand, reference historical art of both Japan and the ancient world.
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Tokyo based artist Kanae Sato works as an illustrator and web designer as well as showing her work in galleries. I love the recurring theme in these pieces of kids interacting with animals.
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I came across the work of Miroco Machiko recently and thought it was a breath of fresh air. Aside from the art, I’ve also thoroughly enjoyed reading stories about the artist’s cats and trying to decipher the snippets left incomprehensible via Google translator.
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Yes, friends, these are hand-embroidered. Takashi Iwasaki was born in Japan and has lived in Winnipeg since 2002.
“Things that I feel are never the same in the next moment because I keep changing. Capturing moments and sharing my visions with others have been my recent obsession and pleasure.” – artist statement.
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Qusamura is a plant shop based in Hiroshima. These are so artfully done – it goes to show how much you can do with very little.
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Niko Leung Hong-Ken’s Picnic Set via BUILDING BLOCK. This is the first set, but the artist intends to continue the project and produce others.
“This project came forth from my fascination with a picture of an artefact I found in a book on Japanese traditional ceramics. I only know that it is the body of a drum… This ambiguity triggered me to explore the world the drum came from and its imagined possibilities today. Through a journey of almost a year of image-hunting, I explored possible variations in everything from its shape to skin, from function to content, from the past to the present.”
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