NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K.
[Exhibition] Noritaka Tatehana’s new solo exhibition “RETHINK” will be held at KOSAKU KANECHIKA from November 26th to December 24th. More than 40 works will be exhibited, including new collaboration works with the craftsmanship of traditional industries.
KOSAKU KANECHIKA, the venue for Noritaka Tatehana’s new solo exhibition “RETHINK”, is a contemporary art gallery on the 5th floor of TERRADA ART COMPLEX, a hot spot in the Shinagawa Tennozu area.
In this exhibition, we will introduce the traditional industries of Tokyo announced at the online exhibition “Edo Tokyo Rethink
Exhibition-The future of traditional industries spun by art seen in the garden of the former Iwasaki-” held in March 2022 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. In addition to collaboration works with seven companies, it will be an opportunity to see more than 40 actual works, including new collaboration works with the same companies.
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION Noritaka Tatehana Solo Exhibition “RETHINK”
Saturday, November 26, 2022 to Saturday, December 24, 2022
KOSAKU KANECHIKA ｜TERRADA ART COMPLEX
Noritaka Tatehana will hold a new solo exhibition “RETHINK” at KOSAKU KANECHIKA from Saturday, November 26, 2022 to Saturday, December 24, 2022.
This exhibition presents the traditional industries of Tokyo announced at the online exhibition “Edo Tokyo Rethink Exhibition -The future of traditional industries spun by art seen in the garden of the former Iwasaki-” held in March 2022 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. In addition to collaboration works with seven companies, it will be an opportunity to see more than 40 actual works, including new
collaboration works with the same companies.
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION [Image 3
(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION [Image 4
(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION The “Edo Tokyo Rethink Exhibition”, directed by Noritaka Tatehana, is an “Edo Tokyo Kirari Project” that refines the craftsmanship and products rooted in the traditions of Edo Tokyo from a new perspective and disseminates them to the world. is an exhibition that has been held continuously since 2020. Inviting traditional industry operators in Tokyo as collaborators of Tatehana, we will explore the
characteristics of traditional industries, starting with Tatehana’s creative process “Rethink”, which is to “revise the past of Japanese culture and express it in the present age”. is reinterpreted in modern times, and through the works, we propose the craftsmanship and charm of traditional industries that have been handed down from ancient times in a new form.
This year, the venue for the “Edo Tokyo Rethink Exhibition” held online was the “Former Iwasaki Residence Garden,” which was built in 1986 and is now designated as a national important cultural property. . The reason why I chose this historical building as the stage is because I wanted to create an exhibition system that allows people to travel from the past to the present and the future through space. In addition, behind the things that Tatehana tackles as a writer, there is the basic idea of ”Rethink” mentioned earlier. Like the concept of the Edo Tokyo Kirari Project, “Old meets New,” it also means “tradition meets innovation.” It is
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION In this exhibition, collaboration works with Tokyo’s traditional industry operators, which were announced at the “Edo Tokyo Rethink Exhibition”, will be moved to the gallery and will be shown together with new works. Please take a look at the new expressions of traditional industries that have been sublimated into art by incorporating the perspective reinterpreted by Tatehana.
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION Noritaka Tatehana x Kinkarakami Institute
Heel-less shoes, 2022
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION Noritaka Tatehana x Ryukobo
Heel-less Shoes ”Lady Point”, 2022
Ryukoubou produces silk braided cords called kumihimo, which are used for kimono sashes. The collaborative work, Heel-less Shoes, uses thick rectangular braids dyed differently on the front and back. This is Ryu Koubou’s specialty, and it is also a craftsmanship that has been handed down from ancient times. In places that look like unevenness, “one knot” is evenly applied to create an expression.
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION Noritaka Tatehana x Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten
Raiko, 2022
Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten, which handles Japanese drums and portable shrines, created a drum called Raiko, which is held by the god of thunder. The taiko drums made by the craftsmen of Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten were connected in a circular shape and painted in Tatehana’s studio. In addition to thunder drums assembled in a circle, various large and small thunder drums are exhibited as new works as stationary objects.
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION Noritaka Tatehana x Isehan Honten
Heel-less shoes, 2022
Isehan Honten is a red lipstick that uses a very rare red pigment extracted from the petals of the safflower called Komachi Beni. The rouge used in the collaborative work “Heel-less Shoes” has a “red color” when used as a dye, but after dyeing the leather, it develops an “irridescent” color as the surface dries. increase. This is called structural color, and it is a coloring phenomenon that can also be seen in the natural world in morpho butterflies and abalone shells. After many trials, such as the color of the base for dyeing crimson on the leather and the density of the dye, the iridescent “Heel-less Shoes” were born.
In addition to the above works, woodblock prints with “Edo Mokuhanga Takahashi Studio”, glass objects with “Edo Kiriko Hanashyo”, zipper tops of heelless shoes using the Mokume Gane technique of “Mokume Gane Mokume Ganeya”, etc. Works using various techniques are exhibited. [Image 11
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(C) ︎NORITAKA TATEHANA K.K., Courtesy of KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Photo by GION Noritaka Tatehana
Descending Painting, 2022
In the Descending Painting Series, which is exhibited as a new painting in this exhibition, the karahana pattern is inspired by the design of the gold leather paper produced in the Meiji period. Influenced by Western ornamental patterns, the karahana pattern on Kinkarakashi paper produced in Japan can be said to be a product of cultural exchange, just like the concept of “Rethink” advocated by Tatehana. Focusing on such matters, Tatehana draws thunder as a metaphor for the gods and buddhas, and adds karahana patterns as yoshiro.
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artist profile
Noritaka Tatehana
Born in Tokyo in 1985. Born into a family that runs a public bath, Kabukiyu, in Kabukicho, and grew up in Kamakura. Influenced by his mother, a doll maker based on Steiner education, he learned to make things with his hands from an early age. In 2010, graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Crafts, Dyeing and Weaving. In addition to researching the culture of prostitutes, she creates kimonos and geta using Yuzen dyeing. “Image Maker Exhibition” (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, 2014), “Future Beauty” (international tour including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2012), solo exhibition “Aesthetics of Magic” (Taro Okamoto Memorial Hall, 2016), solo exhibition “It’s always the others” who die” (POLA Museum Annex, 2019), solo exhibition “NORITAKA TATEHANA: Refashioning Beauty” (Portland Japanese Garden, 2019), “Waku Zetsuka” (touring 4 venues including Panasonic Shiodome Museum, 2020-22), etc. , New York, Paris, Belgium, and other places around the world. In March 2016, he held a Bunraku performance at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. His works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Continuing from last year, the exhibition of the online exhibition “Edo Tokyo Rethink Exhibition” (Former Iwasaki Residence Garden, 2022), which was planned as part of the “Edo Tokyo Kirari Project” organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, focusing on the traditional industries of Tokyo. Serves as meeting director. social network
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