Masayuki Kurokawa  B_O_D_Y/SCENERY of MEMORY

BAROCCO_ Baroque Pearl Jewelries by 24 Artists

Masayuki Kurokawa  B_O_D_Y/SCENERY of MEMORY

BAROCCO_ Baroque Pearl Jewelries by 24 Artists

Born in an architect family in Nagoya City in 1937, Mr. Masayuki Kurokawa known as the Oriental Da Vinci, Godfather of the new era Japanese architecture and industrial design. Mr. Masayuki Kurokawa is the most successful crossover Japanese designer, crossing the fields as arichitecture, industrial design, interior design, furniture design, and graphic design. Mr. Masayuki Kurokawa is the poet of space who is constantly searching the habitat of the human soul.

It was pure serendipity when Min-Ling Hsieh from MANO met Mr. Kurokawa for the first time in Hong Kong in 2010. As a great designer with such sincerity, Mr. Kurokawa exuded air of great master. Since MANO has always great interest in promoting inter-cultural exchanges within design, art, and aesthetic field, inviting Mr. Kurokawa to Taiwan for exhibition and lecture seemed to be a natural move.

“BAROCCO” is a special exhibition curated by Mr. Kurokawa with the jewellery gallery O-Jewel under K-studio. It started with Mr. Kurokawa’s visit to Zhuji in China where fresh water pearls’ origin and fell in love with the abnormal beauty of these heterotypical pearls. “I love these tragically borne heterotypic pearls, because when I feel their skin, I discovered that their radiance is much greater. Their beauty cannot be compare with those regular ones, as they are always striving to proof their euphemists and enchanting life”

Baroque is a style of architecture and painting whose name comes from the Portuguese barroco, warped pearl. A warped pearl has an overripe beauty, as if it were on the verge of collapse, symbolizing people’s desires and bitterness. There is a sad beauty in pearl scraps; the warped light they give off colors humans. In this project, 24 artists attempted to find beauty in and resurrect imperfect, warped pearls and these artistic-shaped pearls will be reborn with infinite mystery and remembered forever.

Mr. Kurokawa states, “As an architect, I have always pursuing for beauty hidden in our daily life. I sacrifice everything for esthetical exploration; it’s like a gamble of my life. The moment when I held these pearls in my hand, my heart can not help but pumped up madly, the only thing occurred in my mind is to set another gamble for them.” These 2 exhibitions take us on these two beautiful journeys of gambles. 

 

 

黑川雅之 2011記憶的風景設計展

BAROCCO 藝形珍珠的旅程_ 國際當代金工創作展

黑川雅之,被譽為日本設計界的達文西,有著平易近人的笑容,他溫和且堅定地在香港中環域多利監獄所改建的展覽空間裡,向大家說明當代金工的精神以及價值 ; 這是MANO慢鏝成員之一謝旻玲在2010年底和黑川雅之老師初次見面的地方。Mano團隊一直有興趣致力於促進國際當代首飾、美感、與設計和台灣創作與文化圈交流互動, 目的在建立更多和國際間優秀創作者的橋樑,並且將這樣特殊的藝術表達方式與觀賞者的體驗連結。

黑川雅之,1937出生於知名建築世家, 父親、哥哥、弟弟全都是建築師,大哥更是以「共生理論」聞名國際的黑川紀章。他於2007年創立了以「製作想製作的作品」為宗旨的K-株式會社,,對他而言,建築是一件涵括生活的概念,’「杯子是個小建築,而房屋是個大杯子’」,建築家必須對生活的所有事物保持興趣,全方位的思考與追尋,「文藝復興時期的達文西,他就是一個建築家,除了建築之外,他也是畫家、雕塑家,甚至是個工程家」。身為一個建築家,黑川雅之用建築的觀點來看生活中的每一件事物,「我對人類與其生活有興趣,追求美是我的使命。」

所以當黑川雅之到珍珠之鄉__浙江諸暨市時,無意間看見了Barocco珍珠,也就是俗稱的變形或是異形珍珠時,反而對於這些有著悲慘身世和淒美容顏的異形珍珠產生莫大的感動。一般的寶石,冰冷冷地閃耀著它的光華,但卻缺乏人性。由人類刻意製作的珍珠,應該要有著晶瑩圓潤的光澤與外型,但是這些Barocco珍珠卻擁有著不完美的形態,「你可以說它是一種失誤,不完美對我而言極富美的吸引力,就像是人類,也像是自然界所存在的所有不完美一般…」這些異形珍珠深深地吸引了黑川雅之的目光,也造就這個繼東京、上海、浙江諸暨後來到台灣展出的「Barocco 藝形珍珠的旅程」國際金工創作展的開端。

 「設計師設計寶石的外型,襯托珠寶的光彩;藝術家探尋珠寶的美感,創造藝術的價值。」「如果缺乏了藝術美感,那麼珠寶就永遠只是一顆石頭,無論它是多麼光輝燦爛。」對於黑川雅之來說,當代金工作品就像每天可以佩帶在身上的藝術品。「我認為藝術是包含兩種含義的:反省和提問,但是並不提供解答;但是設計就不同了,設計除了反省和提問之外,還提供答案。」金工創作是前者,就像是一首詩,述說著屬於它的故事。

黑川雅之帶著這些Barocco珍珠,找到了大地千登勢小姐,她成立的「O-Jewel」是少數在日本從事當代金工藝術的經紀人;對她而言,珍珠就是「人魚的眼淚」,每一顆珍珠都有各自的故事。於是她邀請了24位活躍於歐洲、日本的金工創作者來共同參與,創作了近百件作品,其中包含許多國際著名的藝術家,例如Philip Sajet以「碎片與珍珠」為題的項鍊來描述把糟鉑變精華的過程,Ulrich Reithofer的「被女孩遺忘的手環」有近乎小型雕塑作品的敘事張力,Katja Prins用聚氨酯橡膠覆蓋珍珠給予他們全新價值,或是Mari Ishikawa詩意的「月光之影」系列等等... 所有的藝術家們,因為這些美麗的異形珍珠而又緊密的凝聚在一起,這些所謂「錯誤的珍珠」也得以展開它們另一段不平凡的旅程。在藝術家眼中,Barocco珍珠由"異"幻化成"藝",呈現在自然印象與生活中。

 這一系列活動中,「黑川雅之記憶的風景設計展」,以黑川先生在建築與產品設計領域中的成就及豐富的人生經歷,來告訴我們如何用生命貼近美的本質。而「BAROCCO藝形珍珠的旅程」 國際當代金工創作展又為觀賞者帶來許多驚奇的體驗。


Exhibition Info 展出資訊

Taipei 台北場 9/16 - 10/9/2011  森/CASA(誠品敦南店B1)

Tainan 台南場 10/14 - 10/31/2011  森/CASA (台南市金華路2段324號)

Hosted by 主辦單位:MANO慢鏝、森/CASA 


Related events 相關活動

Lecture Series 講座

Theme : A lesson with Masayuki Kurokawa - If a cup is a miniature architecture and a building is a large-scale cup, then what about contemporary jewellery?

Lecturer : Masayuki Kurokawa  / Chitose Ohchi  / Ulrich Reithofer 

Date:2011/09/18

Location:Taipei Mayor Salon

Publication: MANO No.2

Masayuki Kurokawa is not only an outstanding designer and architect but also a thinker and philosopher. His sophisticated observation of life reflects in his design rhetoric and result in works rich in culture and aesthetic.

Chitose Ohchi established O-Jewel and stands out among the very few contemporary jewellery agents in Japan managing national and international artists. “O-Jewel is connecting people by beauty and making beautiful things happen in the world,” she says.

Austrian artist Ulrich Reithofer’s works are perfect fusion between traditional jewellery craft and innovative use of alternative material and unusual concept telling exceptional stories behind each piece.

These three speakers bathed the audience with 2 hours of discussion on architecture, aesthetics, design, philosophy, curation, contemporary jewellery, and creation. MANO has published a booklet on the occasion of this lecture. 

 

 

主題:黑川雅之給我們的一堂課 - 如果杯子是個小建築,而房屋是個大杯子,那當代金工又是甚麼呢?

主講:黑川雅之 / 大地千登勢 / 烏利奇萊特霍法

地點:台北市市長官邸藝文沙龍

時間:2011/09/18

出版品:MANO慢鏝2011年策展紀錄No.2

黑川雅之先生(Masayuki Kurokawa)不只是傑出的設計師、建築師,更是個思想家,對於生命的觀察及充滿辯證性的世界觀都包容在他的設計修辭中,經過反芻的抽象概念表現在具體設計上,成為富含文化美學的作品。

大地千登勢女士(Chitose Ohchi)是少數在日本從事當代金工的藝術經紀人,她在黑川先生的邀請下成立O-Jewel。「金工作品的價值就在觀看、觸摸與配戴之間將愉悅傳達給佩戴者,而O-Jewel的目的就是建立藝術家之思想概念與觀賞者的各方面體驗間的橋梁。」

烏利奇萊特霍法(Ulrich Reithofer),奧地利裔金工藝術創作者,作品於世界各大藝廊及博物館展出收藏;烏利奇的創作使用傳統的金工技法結合不尋常的材質、構圖與哲思,作品擁有強烈的原創美感與個人色彩。

黑川雅之說:「杯子是個小建築,而房屋是個大杯子」,對他而言「當代金工」又是甚麼呢?這場由三位分別是亞洲大師級的建築與設計家以他的成就及豐富的人生經歷,來告訴我們如何用生命貼近美的本質,國際策展人談如何看待作品價值,歐洲當代金工創作者述說他打破常規的創作故事。

「黑川雅之給我們的一堂課」以輕鬆的形式與大眾座談關於建築、設計與當代金工的種種,座談會後已由MANO將內容整理出版專刊。


Event 活動名稱: Taiwan Designer's Week 2011 - Let's Talk

                            2011 台灣設計師週 - Let's Talk 設計論壇

Theme  主題 :Stories of my Design - 黑川雅之的設計修辭學

Lecturer 主講:Masayuki Kurokawa 黑川雅之 

Location 地點:Huashan1914- creative park 華山1914創意文化園區

Date 時間:2011.09.17