Arisumi Mitamura "Glittering Moments in Time: A Tradition of Edo Gold - Sprinkled Lacquer"
The Nippon Gallery
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Arisumi Mitamura has been working with Japanese lacquer for over forty years. In addition to being the tenth generational head of the Akatsuka style of Edo makie (Edo-style gold-sprinkled lacquer), he holds a teaching position at the Tokyo University of the Arts and continues to apply his craft in refreshing ways in new lacquer works in the modern art genre. He has brought his sharp sensitivity to bear in works presented in some of Japan’s most prestigious exhibitions, including Nitten, and he has been active internationally as well. His first exhibition in New York City will center on his sculptural lacquer pieces, but will also include works from past Edo makie masters like Akatsuka Jitoku and Takai Tairei. Lacquer, suited as it is to the Japanese climate, has been used in Japan for thousands of years for a wide variety of applications, including as paint, as an adhesive, as a sculptural material, in pictorial art, and in medicine and food. The Japanese themselves have long embraced a distinctive and powerful artistic sensitivity, and in no other art does the unique beauty of this aesthetic manifest so clearly as in lacquer work. Even today, the makie tradition that blossomed most strongly in the Edo period is still recognized and appreciated around the world.
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from September 22, 2009 to September 28, 2009