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TANABE CHIKUUNSAI IV & SAWAKO KAIJIMA
SCHOENI PROJECTS in collaboration with wamono art
presents the exhibition de/re CONSTRUCT An exploration of the past re-imagined for the future featuring
Cromwell Place is very close to South Kensington station,
A new art spot with 13 galleries in the building.
The interior is also very stylish and cute, so I’m excited.
The works of Kensuke Koike
@kensukekoike (Instagram) who will be exhibiting together are wonderful.
October 21st – November 6th 2022
Wing Gallery,
2/F Cromwell Place
Cromwell Place 4 Cromwell Place,
South Kensington London SW7 2JE
United Kingdom
Artists’ Talk with Tanabe Chikuunsai IV & Sawako
Date and time
Sat, 22 October 2022, 11:00 – 12:30 BST
The Hanamushin series considers the elegance of mathematically defined shapes embodied by bamboo as intuitively appealing. The geometric form is designed by carefully manipulating the Enneper surface equation introduced by Alfred Enneper in 1864, followed by a process of discretising the surface to extract a collection of curves that accounts for the material characteristics of the bamboo by Kaijima. The curves are then materialised as strips of bamboo by the master craftsmanship of Chikuunsai IV which is perfect, yet retains the unique shimmering quality of handwork and the natural material. It is considered that the Hanamushin series is a diachronic and cross-cultural work that touches on the unspoken beauty that humans perceive.
Photo by Tadayuki Minamoto