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    • Kaneko Toru
    • Oyama Yasuyuki
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  • KANEKO TORU

    金子透

  • Internationally recognized as one of the great artistic talents of the contemporary era, Kaneko Toru creates masterpieces through a combination of traditional Japanese metalworking techniques and materials.
    With little attention to precious metals, he creates exotic textures and coloured surfaces in large works, silver plating and oxidizing tin, enamelling metal a brilliant white, playing with copper oxide to create rich colours, on shapes that delight the eye.
    His work in silver in particular is soft, reminiscent of peaking egg whites, shimmering in hand beaten textured surfaces, and delicate to the touch in the masterful way he controls the threatening vacuum between thin sheets of silver.
  • Kise Hiroshi, Student

    Paper Weave Pod

    Currently Associate Professor at Tohoku University of Art and Design, it's no surprise that two of his post graduate students had sell-out debut's (Kise Hiroshi and Oyama Yasuyuki) during the 2006 Australia-Japan year of exchange exhibitions and master classes.

    Oyama Yasuyuki, Student

    Gold Punch
  • "Metal is full of many different expressions. As I handle the metal, I discover beauty in these ever changing expressions. Using this as a starting point, I create form. It is not that I have an image of the form first, but rather that this form is born from my emotional reaction to metal’s expressions.
    Recently my work focuses on the use of thin metal sheets. This is because I have
    discovered warmth and tenderness in the expressions of the thin metal.  Furthermore, it is not only form, but also colouration in which I have a deep interest – I strive to express all of metal’s hues in my work.
    My heart sees through the seemingly harsh cold surface of metal to reveal its hidden inner sensuality. Challenging perceptions of its nature and form, I wish my work to bring the fascination of metal to the widest possible audience."
    -
    Kaneko Toru
    金子透
  • BIO

    1962

    Born Tokyo
     

    1986

    Bachelor of Arts (Metalwork) Tokyo National University of Fine Arts

     

    1988

    Master of Arts (Metalwork) Tokyo National University of Fine Arts

     

    Currently Assistant Professor Tohoku Geijutsu Koka University

    AWARDS & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    1992

    Superior Prize ‘The Art of Jewellery’ Setagaya Art Museum,

     

    Tokyo Judges’ Prize Takaoka Craft Competition

     

    Silver Medal Takaoka Craft Competition
     

    Judges’ Award International Design Fair IN Miyagi


    1996

    Superior Prize Japan Craft Exhibition
     

    Superior Prize ‘ Tsukatte mitai kita no kashiki ‘ Competition
     

    1997

    Encouragement Award Asahi Contemporary Craft

     

    Exhibition Grand Prize Takaoka Craft Competition

     SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

    1995
    Contemporary Jewellery ‘ Ghent Municipal Museum of Decorative Art, Belgium and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo


    ‘Japanese Contemporaries’, London, Lesley Craze Gallery
     
    1998
    ‘Japan Jewellery Art‘ Itami City Craft Centre, Ueno Mori Art Museum

     

    Invitational Exhibitor Takaoka Craft Competition
     
    1999
    ‘Bi no yokan’ Takashimaya Nihonbashi, Yokohama, Osaka,

     

    Kyoto 2000 Invitational Exhibitor Asahi Contemporary Craft Exhibition
     

    Japan Jewellery Art Exhibition Award of Excellence
     
    2000
    Selection 2000 Essen, Germany

     

    2001
    18th ‘Tansui “ Award Sato Art Craft Foundation
     

    Outline Exhibition London, Gallery Flow
     

    Contemporary Japanese Jewellery, London, Crafts Council

     

    Gallery Japan: Hidden Beauty London, Asian Art

    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

    2002
    ‘Wabi ten’ Clotworthy Arts Centre, Ireland

     

    2003 

    Oribe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
     

    Mugen, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne

     

    2004 

    Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
     
    2005
    International Art & Design Fair, NY, Lesley Kehoe Galleries

     

    2006 

    Japanese Contemporary Metalwork”, Sofitel, Melbourne


    International Art & Design Fair, NY, Lesley Kehoe Galleries
     

    2007
    Contemporary Tea Pieces, Gallery Rubein, Tokyo

     

    ‘Materials from space’ – Tea and Craft, Gallery Rubein, Tokyo

     

    International Art & Design Fair, NY, Lesley Kehoe Galleries
     
    2008
    Fine Art Open HOUSE Guus Roell’s Gaiieru (Maastricht)

    Cha No Yu -Shigeru Uchida and seven artists- Ippodo Gallery, NY
     
    2011
    Heavy Metal : Challenging Perceptions, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

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