Living Form

28/02/2020

NEW ARTICLE on Living Form: an interview with Brian Kennedy and Peter Ting at KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa on KŌGEI — The Evolving Definition of Japan's Finest Craftsmanship and Art Form.

http://living-form.com/people/brian-kennedy-and-peter-ting/

14/02/2020

Living Form was invited to visit the ‘21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa’ before the opening of the 15th Anniversary Exhibition [Part II] ‘Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future’.

Featured artists include Shiota Chiharu, Miyagi Futoshi, Jan Fabre. Kogei artists: Iezumi Toshio, Yamamura Shinya, Hatakeyama Koji, Vladimir Zbynovsky, Kuze Kenji and many more.

On display until April 12, 2020
https://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=81&d=185

SHIOTA Chiharu ‘Rain of Memories’ 2020 Installation View
Photo: KIOKU Keizo
Courtesy: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

13/09/2019

Soetsu Yanagi praised Tamba ware as 'the most Japanese, and they are showing the extreme of austere, subdued, and refined beauty.'

Visit The Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo on the occasion of the special exhibition 'Soetsu Yanagi and Old Tamba', on view now through November 24, 2019
http://www.mingeikan.or.jp/english/exhibition/special/201909.html

17/07/2019

DO NOT MISS: A new art fair will start this September in KYOTO, taking place in an UNESCO World Heritage site

2019.9.6-9二条城にて「京都」×「アートマーケット」を融合したアートフェア開催。出展は古美術から現代美術まで世界のアートシーンを牽引する国内外のギャラリー。

14/07/2019

A tea house designed by a group of architects, artists and artisans from Kanazawa, Japan will be installed at Humboldt Forum’s Museum of Asian Art, completed next spring in Berlin. The tea house is now ready to be shipped to Berlin by this autumn.

https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/pages/pm-a-tea-house-for-the-humboldt-forum

"To create this, a tea master, three kogei artists, and architects discussed and made suggestions from their respective conceptual viewpoints. From planning to details, the theme of ‘Destruction and Creation’ was superimposed and expressed with the spirituality of the tea ceremony, and the local history and climate."

Read more about the project
https://kogei-architecture.com/artist/work02

10/07/2019

LOEWE Craft Prize 2019 finalists are currently exhibiting in Tokyo through July 22.
The space "Heaven", a stone garden by Isamu Noguchi, is also spectacular.
http://craftprize.loewe.com/

18/03/2019

NEW ARTICLE on Living Form: a conversation with Robert Singer at LACMA on the Art of Collecting.

http://living-form.com/people/robert-singer/

12/02/2019

SIGN UP for the Garland Magazine's Japan issue launch event that will take place this month in Kyoto and Kanazawa and explore the world of "Living Craft".

Living Form is proud to help coordinate their event in Kanazawa.

KYOTO: Thursday February 21, 2019, 6-8pm
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/kyoto-launch-garland-tickets-55610788365

KANAZAWA: Sunday February 24, 2019, 2-4pm
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/kanazawa-event-garland-tickets-55676874029

https://garlandmag.com/issue-13/

07/02/2019

LOEWE Craft Prize 2019 finalists are revealed.
Look forward to this year's exhibition which will take place at a ISAMU NOGUCHI sculpture garden in TOKYO from 26 June – 22 July, 2019.
https://craftprize.loewe.com/

31/01/2019

NEW ARTICLE on Living Form: an interview with a Kyoto-based ceramic artist KEIKO IKOMA on the Japanese traditional method KINTSUGI.

The Art of Repair
http://living-form.com/studies/the-art-of-repair/