Sunday, February 07 10am to 6pm
Museum of Art and Design
Jerome and Simona Chazen Building, 02 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
Japanese Kōgei | Future Forward showcases the work of 12 established and emergent kōgei artists, and examines the changing role of this discipline within Japanese culture today. Kōgei is a genre of traditional art that may be roughly translated as “artisan crafts”—a means of highly skilled artistic expression, both in form and decoration, that is associated with specific regions and peoples in Japan. The subject is steeped in tradition and rooted in upholding conventional cultural ideals and aesthetics through the mastery of specialized techniques and materials.
Featured artists include Katsuyo Aoki, Yūki Hayama, Takashi Ikura, Tatsuo Kitamura (Unryūan), Takurō Kuwata, Masayasu Mitsuke, Kōhei Nakamura, Shinkyō Nakamura, Harumi Noguchi, Toshio Ōhi, Yuri Takemura and Shin’ya Yamamura.
For more information visit: http://www.madmuseum.org/