The 3rd Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa consists of the 2017 Kogei World Competition in Kanazawa exhibition and the Kogei Collection in Kanazawa exhibition. The former exhibition approaches kogei art, which has changed and expanded with the times, with a worldwide perspective, serving as a venue to introduce new kogei art pieces, rich with expressiveness, while the latter exhibition focuses on the kogei art pieces that belong to the collections of Kanazawa City’s museums. These exhibitions serve as Kanazawa City’s way of sharing with the world a new era of kogei expression and possibility.
Artists:
Competition Exhibition: 2017 KOGEI World Competition in Kanazawa
“KOGEI as Contemporary Art: Future Evolution”
Grand Prize: IGAWA Takeshi
Merit Award: NAKAMURA Hiromine
Special Recognition Award: TSUMORI Hidenori, KURODA Sachiko, OGI Takuya, KISE Hiroshi, OMURA Shunji, NARA Yuki
Selected:
Kosmas Ballis, HSU Chia-Tzu, KAWAMOTO Rentaro, ASANO Yoshinobu, SUKIGARA Taiki, KOBAYASHI Kuniko, NISHINAKA Yukito, KOO Jung Mi, KUSAMA Tetsuo, Anna Rita Zaccaro, KUNO Teruyuki, SAKAI Tomoya, ICHIKAWA Atsushi, TAKEMURA Gaku, TATE Masaaki, KURESUMI Noriko, FUKUDA Shoko, OISHI Sayaka, TSUKADA Midori, KITAMURA Takahiro, TANAKA Takashi, NARITA Junko, SUZUKI Shota, SASAKI Masahiro, MIYAGI Yuka, MAEKAWA Kazuhito, UTSUMI Saeko, ISOGAI Akihiro, HABA Fumihiko, TAKAHASHI Seiichi, SETSU Junji, IKUTA Niyoko, Kunito, NISHIO Takaji, TEZUKA Mayumi, TSUCHIHASHI Takahiro, TOMARU Atsuko, Marc Keane, LIU Yang, TEI Keishin, Ragnhild Monsen, SHIROZU Hideaki, OGASAWARA Shin, ODA Iori, HIGUCHI Keito, TAKAHASHI Nami, MATSUFUJI Koichi, KATO Chika, WU Ching-Chih, OGINO Noriko, FUKASAWA Shintaro, OGAWA Nobuyuki, TEZUKA Takashi, KANEYASU Hiroshi, TOIDE Masahiko, ADACHI Daigo, HASHIMOTO Tomonari, OKAMOTO Masako, NAGAOKA Kazumi, TAKADA Kenzo, CHAO Nan, OGAMI Yuki, YONEMOTO Masaaki, Eunbum Lee, TOKI Kenji, MOCHIZUKI Mitsuru, MUROFUSHI Eiji, FURUKAWA Chinatsu, SATO Eri, ARINAGA Kota, FUJII Tsuneo, SAKIYAMA Takayuki, KAZAMA Junichiro, SHIMAKAWA Chiyo, SANO Youko, AWA Natsuki, YAMAMORI Nanae, ABE Jun, YAMAGUCHI Mio, MIYAOKA Maki, LIN Yu-Ju, LEE Dairong, secca, BABA Yasutaka, HASHIMOTO Shoichi, Irina Razumovskaya, SADAIKE&OTOMO, HANNYA Taiju, MATSUMURA Jun, NUNOSHITA Shogo, Joe Hogan, URANAKA Kotaro, SHIMOSAKA Kunikazu, KAWANO Taro, MURAMOTO Shingo, NISHIKAWA Masanori, TANAKA Youko, KANBATA Shinya, OKUZAWA Hana, SAKAI Naoki, ISHIYAMA Tetsuya, INO Ichizo, MORIYAMA Kanjiro, MISAKI Tomoko, KUNO Ayako, KONO Michio, TAKAGI Motohide, HAYASHI Sayaka, SATO Toshiyuki, WATANABE Akira, SAJI Mariko, WATANABE Chiemi, KATO Naoki, KAWASUMI Ayako, SAITO Nao, CHENG Ming-Fan, TANIGUCHI Fumi, TANAKA Misa, MINOURA Tetsuya, Momoko Takeshita Keane
Awarded works of The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa
Works purchased by Kanazawa City from among those awarded in the previous two “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa” events are being exhibited in the“2017 KOGEI World Competition in Kanazawa.”
Artists with asterisk listed showed their works in “KOGEI Collections in Kanazawa.”
’99 The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa
Grand Prize: IIDA Michihisa
Merit Award: HORI Noriyuki, SASAKI Masahiro*, INOUE Shizu*
Honorable Mention: KUBO Yuko, Vukićević Velimir, Kozak Nadiya, Julia Kunovska*, Henk Wolvers
Selected: Yan Zoritchak*
2001 The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa
Grand Prize: HIGASHI Mioko
Gold Prize: NARAHARA Hiroko
Silver Prize: TSUJI Shigetoshi, Yan Zoritchak*
Honorable Mention: SONE Yoji, IMADA Yoko*, MINAMI Kaori, NODA Yumiko
(NARAHARA’s work is a collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. The other works are collection of Kanazawa city.)
Special Exhibition: KOGEI Collections in Kanazawa
About the “KOGEI Collections in Kanazawa” Exhibition
AKIMOTO Yuji
“Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa” takes as it predecessor the “Kanazawa Arts and Crafts Competition,” launched in 1989 and held every two years thereafter until 1997. This competition, inaugurated to mark Kanazawa’s centennial as a modern municipality, was aimed at finding new expressions of kogei (“craft”) and presenting them from Kanazawa with an eye to the 21st century. To this end, it was open to the crafts of many regions and historical backgrounds, as well as to artists working, outside tradition, boldly in pursuit of future-oriented craft endeavor.
From 1997, following Kanazawa’s “International Craft City Declaration” in 1995, the competition was combined with an international convention featuring symposiums and lectures by artists and researchers who discussed ways of seeing kogei and thinking about it. Then in 1999 and 2001, the competition was reorganized on a more international basis as “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa.” Although kogei by nature is an extremely broad territory, hard to define, genuine effort has been made through this exhibition to interpret its vast world.
In the field of arts and crafts, it is important when appraising works and products to grasp their specific background or context. If this is not done, the basis for one’s appraisal will not be understood. Through the years, considerable thought has been to given recognizing the relationship between a craft object and its context.
The “KOGEI Collections in Kanazawa” exhibition being held this time arises from this background.
As its title suggests, the exhibition is composed around works in the collections of art museums in Kanazawa. Now we may speak of “kogei,” but depending on a museum’s particular orientation, its collection will differ entirely. There are, in other words, various contexts for viewing kogei.
The Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum, for example, is focused on tea utensils, while Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum collects works using gold foil, and the Kanazawa College of Art collects kogei as art, reflecting the academic intent of the university. Then, the Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo―a technical training facility heir to the spirit of the Kaga Domain Craft Workshop (Kaga Han Osaikusho)―collects superior, high-level works by its trainees, while 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa approaches kogei from the perspective of contemporary art. While we need not trouble ourselves to find a point of connection among the collections of these different museums, this exhibition has been organized with the thought that, surely, such a point of connection does exist, somewhere. On the other hand, this does not mean we are trying to take a meta-perspective from which to unify them all. Far more than we might imagine, the interpretations affixed to kogei works influence how we see them. Though unapparent to the eye, the perspective or valuation under which a kogei work is presented serves to define the work, unconsciously, in the viewer’s mind. This is a fact we need to be clearly aware of. Our experience of a kogei work does not derive entirely from the work, alone.
What serves as an adhesive, at least, in this respect are works awarded in the previous two “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa” events. We had each museum’s curator look at their collection and select awarded works that do well at evoking some manner of relationship with the collections at other museums. What kind of interpretations became possible, I wonder, and did they indeed awaken a relationship or was there after all no point of connection at all? This judgement we leave to the viewers.
Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum
MAEDA Narinaga, UOZUMI Yasuhiko, MIYAZAKI Kanchi XII, NISHIMURA Shoitsu I, OHI Chozaemon X, KOMATSU Hoko, NAKAGAWA Mamoru, OBA Shogyo, OHI Chozaemon IX, NAKAMURA Baizan, MATSUDA Gonroku, TERAI Naoji, UOZUMI Iraku I, HIMI Kodo, HASHIMOTO Sensetsu
INOUE Shizu (a Merit Award work at “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa ’99, ” collection of Kanazawa City), Julia Kunovska (a Honorable Mention work at “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa ’99, ” collection of Kanazawa City)
Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum
TAMAI Keisen, TAMAI Korin, KISHINAMI Ryukei, KOMATSU Hoko, MURATA Hyakusen, ICHISHIMA Ogyo, ICHISHIMA Ogyo, YAMAMOTO Eiko, YAMADA Kyuroku, ARASHI Kazuo, SAWADA Sotaku, SHINODA Gekkyo, ARAI Gaho, TAKAHASHI Kaishu, YONEZAWA Hiroyasu
Yan Zoritchak (a Honorable Mention work at “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa ’99, ” and a Silver Prize work at “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa 2001,” collection of Kanazawa City)
Kanazawa College of Art
KOMATSU Hoko, OBA Shogyo, TERAI Naoji, SAKASHITA Naodai, ANDO Emi, AOKI Chie, YAMAWAKI Chihiro, TAKAHASHI Kaishu, NAKAGAWA Mamoru, YONEDA Toyonari, YABUUCHI Kumi, KURE Wakana, WADA Maiko, KIMURA Uzan, MAIDA Kenji, AZUMA Tomoyo, ISHII Kento, KITADE Tojiro, KITADE Fujio, MIYANAGA Haruka, IKEDA Shoichi, USUI Ayumi
NAYUKI Sonoyo (a selected work at “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa ’99,” collection of the artist)
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo
MURAKAMI Kodo, NAKAMURA Misako, ANDO Ikuko, MATSUNAGA Kei, SHIMIZU Mayumi, FUJINO Seiichiro, HOSONO Hitomi, TANAKA Aya, KOJIRO Yoshiaki, KISE Hirosi, SUDO Mamiko, SAKAI Naoki, TSUKADA Midori, SAITO Mayu, TAKEMURA Yuri, KOSOGAWA Runa, AOYAMA Megumi, TSURUBAYASHI Maimi, KURODA Sachiko, MURAMOTO Shingo, FUJIKAKE Sachi, Kang Min Haeng, YOSHIMURA Mari, CHUNG Wen-Ting, YANAI Yuichi, MOMOSE Reia, FUJITA Yuki, KUROKI Sayo, MINAMI Ayako, TANABE Kyouko
SASAKI Masahiro (A Merit Award work at “The World Competition of Arts Crafts Kanazawa ’99,” collection of Kanazawa City)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
TANAKA Nobuyuki, NAKAMURA Takuo, KUZE Kenji, OHGITA Katsuya
IMADA Yoko (a Honorable Mention work at “The World Competition of Arts and Crafts Kanazawa 2001,” collection of Kanazawa City)
