NYAB Event - Shigeru Uchida "Vague Hazy Transparent Wavering"

Shigeru Uchida "Vague Hazy Transparent Wavering"

Gana Art Gallery

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"Vague Hazy Transparent Wavering" is a solo exhibition of designs and furniture by Shigeru Uchida, an internationally acclaimed Japanese architect and designer of furniture and interiors. The exhibition will showcase a lighting design inspired by the ever-changing qualities of light titled "Dancing Water." Infinitely variable and diffuse according to time of day, season, and clime, light plays a vital role in the ambience of interiors, especially in Japanese homes screened with native shoji paper. Also on display will be a range of unique book-shelves and organic wooden sculptures that reflect Uchida's cool and restrained aesthetic style.

Uchida has been one of the most influential trend setters of design in Japan for over 30 years. He is a pioneer of the simple and serene interiors that have now become the hallmark of Japanese contemporary design. Since the early 1980s, Uchida has continued to build and expand upon his quietly elegant designs. His oeuvre includes homes, public spaces, contemporary tea-ceremony rooms and globally established retail stores.

The signature combination of light, air, restraint and elegance in Uchida's compositions is modern yet firmly rooted in Japanese tradition. Uchida has always been moved by the tension between Eastern and Western cultures, and probes how differing traditions and life patterns -- such as removing shoes and sitting on the floor--directly impact the design of interior fixtures, lighting and furniture. The modest quality and simplicity of Uchida's interiors underscore perhaps the single most important factor in all of his designs – that of quietness.

Uchida's works are included in numerous museum permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Uchida has also worked on a wide range of important architectural and urban planning projects as well as a series of comprehensive interiors. His most notable commissions include the WAVE building in the Roppongi section of Tokyo, Japan; boutiques for Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and ESPIRIT, USA; and the Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe, Japan.

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• Architecture
• Furniture

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