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Excerpts sentences published in Nikkei Business Online Bamboo installation “Connection”
This work applies the method called “site-specific art” which is created on the spot while feeling the atmosphere of the place where it is installed. It is also a representative expression method often used by Takeshi Bamboo. “The history of a department store boasting 80 years and the history of my family that will be 118 years since I first began using bamboo were superimposed and created with the concept of” Connection “. Department stores that are close to people’s lives are evolving newly in the anniversary. I myself is also trying to make a new era while inheriting history at the timing of assassination. I linked the energy of department store evolution with the timing of my name, and completed it. ” “That work was made using the unique technique of bamboo craft called honeycomb stitching.This knitting method is actually a technique that Japanese people have discovered from the remains of the Jomon period before 8000 years ago Although the work is contemporary art, technology is a super classic technique. ” A giant three-dimensional object exceeding 5 meters square can self-sustain without using any adhesive or nail because of the nature of supple and elastic elastic bamboo itself. Moreover, it is a model that can never be expressed unless you are familiar with the bamboo character. “One of the reasons for installing is because I feel that” bamboo can do this “and want to know the charm of bamboo from there. Bamboo grows only in Asia. It is only in Japan that uses it for crafts and raises that technology to the arts. For that reason, it can be said that bamboo is familiar and attractive to Japanese people. “
