"Beauty in All Things: Japanese Art and Design" Exhibition
Museum of Arts & Design
This event has ended.
In Japan, beauty can be found in objects from the most refined to the most humble, often with standards very different from those in the Western world. Drawn largely from the MAD collection, "Beauty in All Things" features contemporary Japanese artists and designers who create innovative works within these ideals of beauty. Some push traditional techniques and materials in new directions, and others experiment with new technologies and materials within the context of historical practice.
In this exhibition, specific works are highlighted that exemplify Japanese concepts of beauty, including shizen, wabi sabi, and datsuzoku.
The term shizen implies a reverence for the beauty found in nature, a recurring theme in Japanese art.
[Image: Kyohei Fujita "Untitled (Box)" (1995) glass, silver, gold leaf, silver leaf 5.5 x 4.75 x 4.75 in.]
Media
Schedule
from November 22, 2011 to June 03, 2012
Artist(s)
Jun-ichi Arai, Kyohei Fujita, Shihoko Fukumoto, Yasuo Hayashi, Yu Hiraishi, Tomoyo Hiraiwa, Syoryu Honda, Yoshio Ikezaki, Hyoe Imai, Tomoko Ishida, Kiyomi Iwata, Yoshiko Jinzenji, Jun Kaneko, Tamiko Kawata, Miwako Kimura, Eiko Kishi, Masakazu Kobayashi, Naomi Kobayashi, Yasuhisa Kohyama, Shoko Koike, Takahiro Kondo, Hideaki Miyamura, Keisuke Mizun, Jin Morigami, Harumi Nakashima, Nendo, Hiroshi Oe, Yoichi Ohira, Emiko Oki, Goto Osamu, Hiroko Sato Pijanowski, Junco Sato Pollack, Yuka Saito, Masatoshi Sakaegi, Takayuki Sakiyama, Kay Sekimachi, Emiko Suo, Hiroshi Suzuki, Toshiko Takaezu, Akio Takamori, Henry Tadaki Takemoto, Hideho Tanaka, Ippo Torii, Takashi Wada, Shige Yamada, Hideo Yamakuchi, Masamichi Yoshikawa, Yuichi Monden