selected for SCHMUCK 2015 : Kazumi Nagano

Kazumi Nagano is an artist reaching back to ancient traditions and reinterpreting these in a contemporary form. Her work is still very much influenced by Nihonga, a technique that she studied during her university years. This is a traditional Japanese painting technique involving the use of rock pigments deriving from natural minerals. She makes use of colour as she would in painting, although the techniques to achieve the effect are different. She employs the weaving together of strands of metal such as silver and gold, silk, nylon and Japanese paper thread, to create different colour and texture patterns. The skilful use of this technique gives a refined quality to the pieces. Nagano conveys delicacy to her works by means of creating soft shapes. Interesting and unexpected effects can be produced by making woven material into three-dimensional shapes and by the sequence of colour combination, light and shade. The suppleness of the pieces facilitates interrelation with the human body and makes them all the more appealing to touch. Her pieces are very intuitive and are the result, at times, of a mere feeling. (Alternatives gallery)

 She graduated at the Tama University of Art, Tokyo, obtaining both a BA and an MA in art. Her jewellery career began in 1996 after having studied under Minato Nakamura. In 2002, she was awarded fine works prize in the Japan Art Jewellery Competition, Tokyo. Her works are part of the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK and the Alice and Louis Koch Rings Collection, Switzerland. She has taken part in numerous exhibitions and craft shows internationally, among which SOFA in Chicago and New York

 

Kazumi Nagano – Brooch 2014 bambootape, nylonthread, gpld18

Kazumi Nagano brooch « Non »,  2014, Linen paper/Nylon thread/Gold(18ct)/Pin-950 silver,Woven,11X9X4 cm

Kazumi Nagano: « Brosche/brooch ». 2011. Bambus, Nylon, Gold. Bamboo, nylon, gold. 110x900x50mm. Schmuck 2012

Kazumi Nagano – Japanese Garden Autumn Brooch. 18k gold, Japanese paper, nylon thread, Japanese lacquer. 85cm x 95cm x 70cm

Kazumi Nagano,   Brooches, Japanese paper, gold, silver pin, nylon thread and Japanese lacquer

 Kazumi Nagano,   Bracelet, Japanese paper, 18ct gold, Chinese ink

 Kazumi Nagano work done for  COLLECT 2013 - bracelet – woven, gold, nylon

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EXPO ‘look White’ – Hole in the wall Gallery, Tokyo (JP) – 3-13 Sept. 2014

at  HOLE IN THE WALL gallery, Tokyo

« Look white » Taguchi Fumiki solo exhibition

2014.9.3(wed)-9.13(sat) 11:00-17:30　＊close on Sunday

opening party 9/3(wed) 17:30

Fumiki Taguchi

 

HOLE IN THE WALL
Shibuya, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo 1-20-5
school corporation Mizuno Aoyama Gakuen school

HOLE IN THE WALL is the name of a gallery space of Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry Tokyo.
we organized over 10 exhibition as an education for our students and introduction for the people who don’t know about these kind of works in Tokyo.

EXPO ‘Xavier Monclus jewelry’ – Gallery Deux Poissons, Tokyo (JP) – 18 Juill.-3 Aout 2014

Dia 18 de Julio inauguración de mi exposición en la galeria Deux Poissons de Tokyo! Vamos para japón la semana que viene! / Next 18th of July will be my openning solo exhibition in Tokyo.  In Deux Poissons gallery. Let´s go to Tokyo!…..

gallery deux poissons is honored to host Xavier Ines Monclus’s solo exhibition for the first time in Japan. Xavier Ines Monclus is a Spanish jewelry artist who studied jewelry in Barcelona and is currently based in Menorca.
In the exhibition, there will be large brooches as limited edition artworks and unlimited collection called DINKY JEWELS.
The brooches are composed of various miniatures, such as houses, walls, chimneys and wheels. Familiar objects become surrealistic by being combined with disconnected elements. The artist leaves a room for viewers to imagine narratives behind them freely.
DINKY JEWELS is a series of small silver rings, pin brooches, and earrings. Animals, flowers, small coffee cups, and dices… everything becomes jewelries through unique view point of the artist who is also a toy collector.
The exhibition including 100 works invites viewers to enjoy Xavier Ines Monclus’s world of jewelries.

au pays du Soleil Levant vous dites ? ……  Brooch: Es Llop de Mar de Binisafua, 2013 – Silver, oxidated silver, bronze, enamel paint
60 x 65 x 13 mm – From the series: Architecture

Xavier Monclús – Pieces: Dinky Jewels Collection, since 1995 – Silver, oxidized silver – From Dinky Jewels series – Earrings, rings, pins, pendants and small brooches

Xavier Monclús – Rings: Dinky Jewels Collection, since 1995 – Silver
From Dinky Jewels series

 

Gallery Deux Poissons

恵比寿2-3-6
Shibuya 150-0013

TOKYO – Japan

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EXPO ‘Playground & Shadows’ – Espace 446, Osaka (JP) – 22 Juill.-1er Aout 2014

HiNGE Dept.Accessory / Liisa Hashimoto -
[ Playground & Shadows ] Liisa Hashimoto Art Jewelry Exhibition.
ESPACE 446

 

 

 

ESPACE 446

4-4-6 Honmachi Chuo-ku

Osaka 541-0053
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COUP de COEUR pour les « délices de bouche » de Kazumi NAGANO

…. On dirait de petites meringues, délicates, poétiques, fragiles, des « délices de bouche » …. mais ce sont « juste » des délices de bijoux ….. dont on imagine le doux croquant, le moelleux ……….

« Kazumi Nagano is a Japanese artist informed by ancient tradition and drawn to contemporary form. Her pieces mark a beautiful reinterpretation. She uses a technique called “Nahanga” to paint her jewelry using rock pigments to achieve incredibly delicate coloration. She also weaves strands of gold, silver, silk, nylon and paper thread together creating 3 dimensional shapes with an incredible suppleness. I want to reach out and touch them » (Craft & Culture)

« As if capturing the beauty of Japanese Nihonga paintings into her woven jewellery, epitomised by the moon, flowers, and subtleties of snow, it can be said that Kazumi Nagano (1946- ) is one of the leading Japanese artists in her field. Contemporary jewellery is currently one of the hotly-collected mediums in applied arts by museums and collectors, and Nagano’s works, which embody conceptual, structural and creative elegance, have been collected by the Victoria & Albert Museum and a multitude of various important private collections in recent years. Striking is the fact that Nagano had only delved into the world of jewellery after reaching the age of 50. Instead, she was formally educated as a Nihonga painter. Yet, as if painting the aesthetics of traditional Japan into her three-dimensional pieces, her seductive silhouettes are emblematic of the romanticism inherently found in the two-dimensional world of Japanese painting, of subtle flowers blowing in the wind, with reverence to the warmth of not the sun but of moonlight. Serenity, not dynamism, are the hallmarks of Nagano’s luscious forms made from materials such as gold and silver threads, even ‘bamboo tape,’ combined with the elasticity of the contemporary material that is nylon. » (Yukufu Gallery)

Kazumi Nagano -  bamboo & nylon brooch (at Schmuck 2012)

Kazumi Nagano – brooch 2011 – bamboo, nylon, gold (at Schmuck 2012) 110x900x50mm

Kazumi Nagano -  bamboo & nylon brooch  2013

Kazumi Nagano - Brooch 

Kazumi Nagano – Brooch 2014 bamboo tape, nylon thread, gold18

Kazumi Nagano – Brooch 2013

Kazumi Nagano -  works are for Collect2013 (Yufuku Gallery at Saatch Gallery,London, 10th May 2013 –13th May)

EXPO ’4 Jewelers from Japan’ – Jewelers’Werk Galerie, Washington DC (USA) – 7-27 Juin 2014

4 Jewelers from Japan: a Tribute to Ryuichiro Nakamura

works of Kyoko Fukuchi – Kimiaki Kageyama — Fumiki Taguchi — Ryuichiro Nakamura

Opening reception :  saturday June 7, 1-4 PM

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Fumiki Taguchi Brooch: Jewelry claim 1, 2013 Gold, silver 12 x 5 x 3 cm Photo by Fumiki Taguchi

Kimiaki Kageyama : Mountain Plum Blossom, 2010, Brooch, Iron, baroque akoya pearls, gold, deep-sea coral 120 x 35 x H75mm

Kyoko Fukuchi broch 2002

Jewelers’Werk Galerie

3319 Cady’s Alley NW
20007 – Washington DC
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EXPO ‘CURRENT’ – Hikoso Alternatives, Kanazawa (JP) – 28-30 Mars 2014

CURRENT – Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition
We traveled Yokohama (Japan) and Taipei (Taiwan), next stop and the last place of CURRENT exhibition in Asia is KANAZAWA city (JAPAN)
March 28/29/30  (12:00~18:00 entrance free)
March 31 & April 1  by appointment only ([e-mail])

Organizer： ORIZZONTI（Meiri Ishida, Karin kato, Yuki sumiya）
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12 artists, with different backgrounds came together to think about the basic question:  “where is the world going?” We chose the name of the exhibition, CURRENT, to mean not only the flow of ideas but also what’s happening in the world now. Both those concepts are intended to be expressed through jewellery.

Artists:  Rudee Tancharoen (Thailand) / Manolya Konuk (France) / Elisa Deval (Italy) / Maria Constanza Ochoa (Colombia) / Rallou Katsari (Greece) / Poly Nikolopoulou (Greece) / Meiri Ishida (Japan) / Karin Kato (Japan) / Yoriko Mitsuhashi (Japan) / Yoko Shimizu (Japan) / Yuki Sumiya (Japan)/Janny Huang Yokota (Taiwan)

 

 

 

HIKOSO ALTERNATIVES
(Alternative space in Jyokeiji – traditional buddhist temple)
1-13-32 Hikosomachi Kanazawa, Ishikawa Japan
open:  2014 March 28(fri)-30(sun) 12:00~18:00

 

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Got the BLUES with Yoko SHIMIZU

Yoko Shimizu

« My approach to jewellery often begins with a focus on the relationship between the jewellery piece and the human body.  I look for simplicity and harmony in this relationship through the process of making: experimenting with materials and forms, constructing one part at a time, pausing to see the effect on the body. In the end I feel the need to leave an imperfection or add or eliminate an element, so that there is something a bit off or unexpected, at times in search of tension, rigor, sometimes for a touch of warmth. »

Transformation « The theme of the series of necklaces in colored resin is ‘Transformation’. It is a part of a study in the transformation of forms, materials and colors. Pieces of wood are transformed into resin and the surface of wood is transferred onto the surface of resin. Transformation from wood to resin, from natural to artificial, from opaque to transparent. The transformation continues with the movement of the wearer and reflection of light, losing something but gaining something at the same time. »

EXPO ‘In the Darkness’ – GLAN FABRIQUE Galerie, Osaka (JP) – 13 Juin – 1er Juill. 2013

« In the Darkness » - Liisa Hashimoto Art Jewelry Exhibition -

My solo exhibition will start from June 13th till July 1st.  It will be at galerie GLAN FABRIQUE 1F  in Osaka, Japan

 

GLAN FABRIQUE 1F  in Osaka, Japan

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Decouverte : Mariko Sumioka, architectured Japan

Mariko Sumioka is a jeweller based in Edinburgh.  Inspired by Japanese traditional architecture and the spirit of Zen, her unique drawings and enamel techniques enable her to explore the inspiration into the wearable jewellery.

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Mariko Sumioka « Pray for Japan » brooch

« I feel awe and respect for natural and man-made objects which have been there and lived since ancient times.
This idea is deeply rooted in my origin: Japanese culture and environments. The Japanese respect, understand and accept nature as one of their members. I am fascinated by Japanese traditional architecture, which is an essential part of human lives as a central part of a culture and a place where people have basic connections with natural surroundings.
I am inspired by Japanese unique architectural characteristics: natural materials and colours, dark and bright contrasts, linear forms, geometric shapes and spaces.
Since human beings live in architecture, there are some reasons in each element. I have researched theoretically and visually into those handed down traditions and tried to bring them into my pieces of jewellery.
My work explores a connection with human bodies and how the wearer and viewer interact with each other, themselves and the objects. Also, studying the principle of Zen and the essence of the Japanese love of nature helps me to understand people’s attitude behind their culture.
Drawing is an essential part of my creation, especially collaging. By adding elements onto others, I always find many different ways of assembling these elements in both drawing and creating jewellery. This technique also helps me to break down my original thoughts into different ideas, and to find new ideas and designs by abstracting elements.
Enamelling with simple colours enables me to explore my images of natural materials and textures which can be found in Japanese architecture. 
I have also challenged and investigated contemporary ideas of jewellery as sculptural objects or body pieces. I do not force people to wear a piece in a certain way, but want people to play with my pieces and find their own ways of wearing them.  » (dazzle-exhibitions)

Mariko Sumioka showed this bamboo brooch in her BA (Hons) in Jewellery and Silversmithing degree show at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) in 2011 -  Photograph: PR/Edinburgh College of Art

inspiration : Japan blue roofs – toits en tuiles vernissées bleues des vieilles maisons traditionelles japonaises ….

Mariko Sumioka – ‘rokusyo no yane’ earrings

Mariko Sumioka – Mosaic Brooch

Mariko Sumioka « yane » mosaic brooch

Mariko Sumioka  « Yane » Mosaic Brooch

Mariko Sumioka – broche ‘yane to michi’

Mariko Sumioka – ‘interior’ earrings – oxidised copper, copper, enamel, gold plated silver, silk cord

Mariko Sumioka ‘omikuji’ brooch

Mariko Sumioka – Bamboo Necklace 2011, oxidised copper, enamel on copper, kimono, gold-plated steel cable – 800 x 230 x 20 mm – (BA at United Kingdom, Edinburgh College of Art) (Galerie Marzee)

Mariko Sumioka -bamboo neckpiece  2011 – oxidised copper, enamel, kimono, gold plated steel cable – long 80cm (DETAIL)

Mariko Sumioka, work inspired by the architecture of her native Japan – the « tea house » series rings

Mariko Sumioka -architectural rings 2011

Mariko Sumioka – bamboo earrings  2011