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Takeshi Igawa
Italy
Represented by: ESH Gallery
Views: 145
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Italy
Represented by: ESH Gallery
Views: 145
Contact the gallery
Shipped from Milano, Italy
Shipping costs:
Packaged in cardboard box
Make an offer
Floral Wind II
urushi lacquer, hemp-cloth, styrofoam / 2016
cm 114x16x6
Price 4500 €
urushi lacquer, hemp-cloth, styrofoam / 2016
cm 114x16x6
Price 4500 €
About the artwork
About the artist
Pools of mysterious shadows, sudden illuminations, deep sensual reflections, vast planes of black, sharp angles and the softest of curves – Igawa Takeshi’s sculptural works evade instant comprehension. Conceptually based on the infinity of sea and sky, the impenetrable obscurity of black, and using the natural lustre of lacquer, Igawa uses the freedom and fluidity of kanshitsu, the dry lacquer technique that traditionally uses a fabric mold rather than a wooden substrate, to create form.
About the artist
Igawa Takeshi (1980), Associate Professor at Saga University in Kyushu, lives and works in Saga City, Japan. He uses the most traditional of Japanese craft materials, but is one of the most closely watched young artist in the field of contemporary lacquer art because of his daring and expressive sculptures. Known as urushi in Japanese, lacquer is the sap of a tree related to the sumac family, and has been used in Japan as an adhesive and a coating (including decoration) for more than 9000 years. Among the distinctive features of lacquer are the gloss and depth of the surface and the pleasing tactile experience, which Igawa features in his sculptures.
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