From Tuesday 17 September until Monday 23 September 2013.

Thankfully, we finished our second Mamesara metalwork exhibition, ‘Imakara Mamesara 2013’, in great prosperity. This open call exhibition will be held by Genbei Yamanaka 7th, with the aim of sharing the world of ‘mamesara’ metalwork. All exhibitors will be judged equally, regardless of their standing. We announced this competition through the SEIKADO website, our Facebook page and through a metalwork school in Kyoto. We received over 200 artwork submissions not only from Japan but from abroad (Florence, Italy, and California, USA). We showed all the work in the Seikado Gallery using all the floorspace and made the works available to buy.
The best work which received the ‘Yamanaka Genbei Prize 2103’, was awarded to Yusuke Maruyama from Yokohama, for his work ‘Machi no Kakera’. His artwork resembles assembled pieces of a puzzle. We also awarded the ‘Life Beyond Tourism Prize’ to the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation in Florence, a sister city of Kyoto.

Click here for details of the ‘Yamanaka Genbei Prize’, ‘Life Beyond Tourism Prize’ and the ‘Imakara Mamesara 2013’ competition.

We held a reception party on Saturday 21st September. We had very creative and exciting exchange with people from the metalwork industry in Kyoto, as well as many artists & designers who work in creative industry. Since it was open call exhibition, we created the opportunity to connect with various people by bringing them together at the same time and for the same purpose.

 

List of exhibitors:

Yusuke Maruyama / Kanagawa

Kotoha Iwamoto / Hyogo

Seiwa Hada / Tokyo

Eriko Fukawa / Kanagawa

Shota Suzuki / Fukushima

Chie Tanaka / Chiba

Yasumasa  Watanabe / Saitama

Mutsumi Hattori / Saitama

Anna Hara / Nagano

Hayato Ogawa / Kyoto

Emiko Ishikawa / Ishikawa

Kanako Kai / Kyoto

Yasutoshi Shimura / Kyoto

Kouta Takahashi / Yamanashi

Akemi Miyashita / Nara

Chikako Ueda / Kyoto

Hideo Ishii / Kyoto

Akinori Matsuda / Akita

Fumi Suito / Kyoto

Takahiro Nakamura / Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Yasuyuki Oyama / Yamanashi

Yoshiki Kato / Kyoto

Kato Kousuke / Hiroshima

Hideo Osumi / Kanagawa

Yuki Fujita / Ishikawa

Ayako Kawanishi / Nara

Yasuyuki Mori / Kyoto

Kodai Makino / Yamagata

Yutaka Umezawa / Osaka

Kotomi “Lemi” Yoda / California, USA

Takeshi Harada / Hiroshima

Chiaki Mizuno / Osaka

Takashi Ota / Kyoto

Yuki Nishihara / Fukuoka

Rieko Torikai / Yamagata

Koutaro Uranaka / Ishikawa

Hiroshi Kise / Ishikawa

Marie Maenishi / Hiroshima

Norihisa Yamazaki / Tokyo

Genbei Yamanaka / Kyoto    （organizer）

 

We are thinking about holding this event annually, and appreciate your continued support. Thank you very much.