[Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore] An exhibition of unique artists created by destroying and inheriting works, “Glass Modeling Artist Yukito Nishinaka Glass Succession-Breaking and Reborn-” will be held on Tuesday, December 15th.

A talk event by Yukito Nishinaka will be held from 19:00 on December 18th (Friday).

At Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore, I felt the possibility of new expressions rooted in the traditional Japanese culture of "Tsugi" in the works of Yukito Nishinaka, a glass modeling artist who is active in the world. We will hold "Glass Call-Breaking and Reborn-" in the store.

The tea masters of the Momoyama period used a technique called "succession" to find beauty in the cracks of the vessel and dare to repair it with gold to reborn the defects into individuality. In addition to splicing the broken vessels, there is also a "call splicing" that intentionally breaks the vessel and reconnects it, and also combines fragments of another vessel with the missing part. It was.
Nishinaka is a noted artist who continues to create new and original works using this traditional "succession" technique.
Along with this exhibition, we will hold a talk event on December 18th (Friday) to talk about our thoughts on creation.

• Exhibition details

"Glass modeling artist Yukito Nishinaka's succession to glass-smashing and reborn-"

Exhibitor: Yukito Nishinaka
Venue: Inside Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore Sales floor Date: December 15th (Tuesday) -January 15th (Friday), 2020
* Please check the store website for the time. Writer's presence date: December 15th (Tuesday), 24th (Sunday), 2021 January 9th (Saturday) * Scheduled. Subject to change.
Organizer: Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore Before Art Edition Contact: Tel 03-3575-7755
Special page: https://store.tsite.jp/ginza/blog/humanities/17267-1556551120.html

• Talk event details

Glass modeling artist Yukito Nishinaka talk event

Speakers: Yukito Nishinaka Schedule: December 18, 2020 (Friday) 19: 00-20: 00
Venue: BOOK Event space Capacity: 30 people Participation: Free Reservation method: https://store.tsite.jp/ginza/blog/humanities/17267-1556551120.html
Contents: Yukito Nishinaka, a unique artist who dares to destroy and succeed works to create new works, talks about his thoughts on the creation. Listener: Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore Japanese Culture Concierge Shoichi Sato

• Writer profile

Yukito Nishinaka / Yukito Nishinaka ( https://www.nishinaka.com )

Glass modeling artist. Born in Wakayama City in 1964.
After graduating from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi Pharmaceutical University, obtained a pharmacist license. Studied sculpture and glass art at California College of the Arts.
Pursuing a unique glass expression inspired by the beauty of ancient Japan, with the theme of "glittering and regenerating life."
His representative work is "Glass Karesansui" with the message "Glass succession" based on Kintsugi's aesthetic sense and the connection of life.
In recent years, he has been working on art (SDGs x ART) aiming for a sustainable society through resource recycling.
Exhibited annually at the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts "Japonisme's 150 Years Exhibition" (2018), the University of Hong Kong Art Museum "Goryu Breath Exhibition" (2019), and art fairs in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and Hong Kong. In 2019, we celebrated 30 years of creative activity.

Received the 1st Glass Beauty Exhibition in Satsuma Grand Prize, WIRED-sponsored CREATIVE HACKAWARD 2013 Graphic Award, Germany World Media Festivals Gold Award, etc. Dedicated the world's first recycled glass dry landscape garden "Connect" to Kyoto Honen-in Temple in May 2019. The Ashmolean Museum (UK), Oxford University, the world's first university museum, has a collection of the "Dawn" and the "Ariake" Jar.

Every year, he leaves Japan for about two months and embarks on a journey to reconsider himself and reset his past accumulation. Cross-cultural experiences in 54 countries around the world are the source of creativity. Active with the philosophy of "creating future traditions now".

In 2002, he built a workshop in Mobara City, Chiba Prefecture, and has maintained a reasonable distance from urban life since then.

• Artist statement

In order to surpass my current self, I smash the vessels I made.
Just to reborn and create the future.
The aesthetic sense of the Momoyama tea master who found beauty in the cracks of the vessel, which is regarded as a defect all over the world, and dared to emphasize it with gold and repair it, and reborn it uniquely.
Japan's unique aesthetic sense of "Tsugi" is the foundation of my own expression as a world-class philosophy.
When I break a beautiful vessel, I still feel frightened, but there are things that can be overcome by breaking it.
We believe that there is no future as an extension of the past, and that the future is alive.

-Yukito Nishinaka

• store information

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