NYAB Event - Tatsuo Sagane & Yukiharu Nihei Exhibition

Tatsuo Sagane & Yukiharu Nihei Exhibition

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Tatsuo Sagane:
Sagane lives in Maizuru located in the northern part of Kyoto Prefecture in a beautiful mountain village where he makes pottery. His ceramic making begins with extracting clay from the soil found there. He lives a self-sustaining lifestyle by growing wheat, buckwheat soba and tea in the same soil and gathering bamboo shoots and wild mountain vegetables. Through his touch, he breathes new life into the soil, trees and all the plants.
Sagane’s beginning as a ceramist was as a pottery instructor at a center for persons with disabilities in 1983. He has been presented with the Maizuru City Mayor’s Award and he when he lived in Los Angeles he taught pottery while pursuing his own expression.
His style is bold yet delicate. His hands while kneading clay and spirit in coming to face with nature consistently remain pure and humble, consequently robust. In his pottery, his stance to gently yet rigorously watch over the phenomena of nature is revealed. He insistently fires his pottery in his traditional anagama kiln he built, which creates striking natural surfaces from the natural ash glaze. In his single-chamber anagama kiln, Sagane’s spirit fuses with all the elements of nature, clay, fire, wood, and air, to become his expression.
In Sagane’s 2008 and 2010 exhibitions in New York, incorporating Sagane’s works into everyday life gave pleasure and contentment to many.

Yukiharu Nihei:
Nihei is a Japanese artist and textile designer for kimonos living and working in Tokyo.
Over his 20-year career, Nihei has tirelessly persisted in expressing the beauty of the materials, which in turn triggers his own creativity. His painting is simple and minimalist utilizing traditional Japanese dying techniques (itome yuzen and roketsu zome - batik), and recognized for its uniquely inventive style and color palette that brings out the beauty of the materials. The delicacy of the lines and selection of motifs convey Nihei’s deep respect for Japanese culture and sensibilities.
While Nihei’s two previous 2012 and 2013 exhibitions in New York focused on works on paper, this exhibition features works both on silk and paper.
In his works on silk, he depicts the narrative of a humorous tale that unfolds in a moonlit night utilizing deep heart-warming colors through his skillful dyeing techniques. The works on paper are abstract spiritual expressions inspired by Chinese brush paintings and traditional Japanese calligraphy.
According to Yukiharu Nihei, “I want to create something which brings genuine insight to appreciate the beauty of nature — the color of the sky, the ripple in the water, leaves on the trees, the fragrance in the breeze – and life more fully to the viewer of my art work and that is the power of creation, I believe.”

Media

• Prints
• Crafts
• Ceramics

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