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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."
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      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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