Ryuhei Sako 積層の景致 2017 Art Works Album

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Ryuhei Sako Biography

1976 Born in Okayama, Japan

1999 BA, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan

2002 MA, Graduate School of Art, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan

2004~ Official Member of the Japan Art Crafts Association

Awards

2003 Tokyo Metropolitan Governor Prize |Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition

2004 Grand Prix |Okayama Prefectural Art Awards

2005 Encouragement Prize |FUKUTAKE Education and Culture Foundation

2007 Encouragement Prize |Okayama Prefecture Culture Awards

Hiroshima Prefectural Governor Prize |Japan Traditional Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition

2008 Prize of the Director General of Cultural Office| Traditional Crafts Japan Metalwork Exhibition

2009 Encouragement prize |AIshi(“I-shi”) Awards

2011 Special Memorial prize |Traditional Crafts Japan Metalwork Exhibition

2012 Prize of the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education |Traditional Crafts Japan Metalwork Exhibition

Okayama Prefectural Governor Prize |Japan Traditional Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition

Effort award |SOUKEIKAI Foundation

2013 Energia Prize (Art Category) |Energia Culture and Sports Foundation

2016　Grand prix |The 32th Tansuioh Prize of the Sato Foundation of Arts and Crafts Organization

Asahi Shinbun Prize |Traditional Crafts Japan Metalwork Exhibition

2017　Prix Institut Français du Japon | The Ima-kara Mame-sara Metalworks Exhibition

Solo Exhibitions

2006 Gallery Yabuki|Okayama (’09, ’12)

Seikado Gallery|Kyoto (’09、‘17)

2007 Kobo Ikuko|Okayama (’10, ’15)

2008 Tenmaya Okayama|Okayama (’13)

2009 Tenmaya Fukuyama|Hiroshima (’12,’15)

2010 Tenmaya Hirosshima Hacchobori|Hiroshima (’12)

2011 Maruei Nagoya|Aichi (’12)

Tenmana Kurashiki|Okayama

2013 Daimaru Kyoto Art Salon ESPACE|Kyoto

Karuizawa New Art Museum Gallery|Nagano

2014 Mitsukoshi Nihombshi Main Store|Tokyo（‘16）

2017　Uncle Iwane Gallery |Okayama

And lots of Group Exhibitions

Public Collections

Hiroshima City University |Hiroshima

Machiko Hasegawa Art Museum|Tokyo

Victoria and Albert Museum |London, U.K.

(As of 2017)

Mokumegane

This is a flower vase created by employing the technique of the pattern welding “Mokumegane” which was invented in the 17th century in Japan.

I have exposed the laminated cross-section of metals and produced the characteristic patterns on it by repeating process of works to layer, join and roll more than twenty sheets of metal, and smooth away, strike and elongate their cases.

Using the traditional Japanese alloy as materials, including “Shakudo” (an alloy of copper and gold) and “Shibuichi” (an alloy of silver and copper), I have striven to create organic patterns from the color of metals.

二十数枚の金属板を重ねて接合、圧延し、表面を削っては叩き伸ばす工程を繰り返すことで、積層した金属の断面を露出させ独特の文様を作っている。

素材には、赤銅（銅と金の合金）や四分一（銀と銅の合金）などの日本古来の合金を用いて、金属の色彩による有機的な文様の表現を試みた。また、制作する上で、ひとつの作品の中に密と疎、静と動などの「相対する要素」を入れ込んで景色を作り出すことや、金属特有の鋭いエッジ取り入れたデザインにし、作品に立体感や動き、リズムを与え、模様の見え方により変化をつけることを意識し模様に奥行を出している。