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    • MITSUMOTO TAKESHI

      光本岳士

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      Metal is generally imagined as rigid and heavy, but on the other hand, it also has characteristics of suppleness and delicacy. It is these characteristics of the material that I draw out in my work. I also include what are often regarded as defects as major features – the undulations caused by the heat of soldering, and the beauty of the rusted surface. 

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      Mitsumoto Takeshi

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      Member and former Director of the Japan Craft Design Association, Mitsumoto’s work is regularly selected for public competition exhibitions and has won numerous major prizes, including the Talentborse Handwerk Prize in Munich in 1991.

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      Over the artist's career, his work has been exhibited in London, New York, Belgium and Australia, and placed in numerous private collections and the Museum of Kyushu Sangyo University Fukuoka, the National Gallery of Australia and the Victoria and Albert Museum London.

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      Closest to his heart, and beautifully brought to life in this recent collaboration with Sogetsu Ikebana artist Roka Atsuko, are his smaller scale sculptural art forms.

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      Free from the constraints of commissioned work, imbued with the technical & intellectual depth & creativity of a master artist, these works are a manifestation of his unfettered artistic geniu

       

      Sogetsu Ikebana Collaboration

      MITSUMOTO TAKESHI

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      ROKA ATSUKO

       

       
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      Mitsumoto works primarily in iron. Like others of his generation, he is, despite the highly crafted nature of his work, less interested in delicacy and sleekness than in the exploration of rawness of material and texture. Differences of scale aside, parallels can be drawn with the rusted iron sculptures of Richard Sera or Anthony Caro. There is also an appeal, pointed or humorous or both, to contemporary concerns with conservation and the environment. This is evident in this set of vases, which are constructed from recycled drain-piping and fencing wire. While each vase has a clearly independent presence, the three vases were created as a set in which the variation of the stringing of the fencing wire sets up rhythms and counterpoints of an almost musical quality.-

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      V&A Museum
      East Asia Collection

    • BIOGRAPHY

      Selected Highlights

      AWARDS

      1990

      Selected for the 'Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition'

      Silver Prize for The Takaoka Craft Exhibition

       

      1991

      Prize winner "Talentborse Handwerk 1991 Munich, Germany

       

      1996

      Won The 13th Tansuiou Prize, presented by The Satoh Art & Craft Research & Scholarship Foundation

       

      1997

      Grand Prize Winner The Japan Crafts Exhibition,

       

      PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

      2001
      Museum of Kyushu Sangyo University Fukuoka

       

      2009
      National Gallery of Australia

       

      2011
      Victoria and Albert Museum London

      INSTALLATIONS

      Numazu Central Hospital

       

      Aichi Medical University Hospital

       

      Matsuyama Yogo Minami Medical Clinic

       

      Watanabe Concert Hall

       

      XIV Hakone Palace

       

      Hyatt Regency Tokyo

       

      Four Seasons Hotel Seoul

       

      Righa Royal Hotel Kyoto

       

      Bellagio, Shanghai

       

      Hakodate International Hotel

       

      Ginza Capital Hotel

       

      Hyatt Regency Yokohama

       

      Prime Nishi Hachioji

      EXHIBITIONS  

      1992

      'Neo Metal Works' Wacoal Ginza Art Space Tokyo(1995 1998)

       

      1996

      'Form of Lines Form of Plates' Gallery U Tokyo

       

      1997

      '2nd Lights In Daily Lives Exhibition' Living Design Gallery Tokyo

       

      1998

      'Twisted Fellows X;port Exhibition' AXIS Gallery Tokyo

       

      1999

      'Metalworks' Kagurazaka Pulse Gallery Tokyo

       

      2002

      'From The Rising Sun' Vizo Gallery Brussels

       

      2006

      'The Starting Point of Making' ARAI Atelier Gallery Tokyo

      'International Art + Design Fair' New York

       

      2007

      'Sofa New York' (2010, 2011)

       

      EXHIBTIONS

      2008

      'Beauty of New Metal Art' Sekido Museum of Art Tokyo

      'Collect' Victoria & Albert Museum London(2009 2011 2012 2013)

      Japanese Cool Zero 8' Lesley Kehoe Galleries Melbourne

       

      2011

      Gallery Okariaya Ginza, Ginza, Tokyo

      Heavy Metal : Challenging Perceptions' Lesley Kehoe Galleries Melbourne

       

      2013

      Gallery Okariya Ginza Tokyo

       

      2014

      Asian Art Week New York

       

      2015

      The International Fine Art Fair New York

       

      2016

      'Stormy waters' Gallery Ruenvent Tokyo

      'Presence' Lesley Kehoe Galleries Melbourne

       

      2017

      Sydney Contemporary

       

      2020

      'Glittering Metal Art' Sekido Museum of Art Tokyo

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