Japanese art x Textile design x Antique art collaboration Exhibition in KYOTO JAPAN
- 3 年前
A special limited two-day
collaboration exhibition held in the fall of 2014.
The exhibition was a collaboration of Cobun Cozo's contemporary art, textiles, and antiques in a 200-year-old former ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant). Sliding door paintings by Okyo Maruyama, folding screens presented by Ieyasu, Jingdezhen and Chinese antiques, modern Cobun Cozo's works and textiles created a different space from the East and West.
For two days only, the entire mansion, including the garden of a former ryotei restaurant that is no longer in use, was transformed into a huge installation of contemporary art.
The colors of the leaves in Kyoto were also included in this exquisite collaboration.
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★Profile
Name is Cozo Cobun(coco) .
A painter from Osaka Prefecture. In LGBT lectures and collaborations with companies, he has been involved in textile design, etc., and is active in many fields.
Since debut in 1996, he has presented works with children as motifs mainly in department stores, but since 2009 he has expanded his work to contemporary art and challenged to express himself and modern society through the subject of children . The eyes of the appealing children develop a unique world that attracts viewers.
Cozo uses a child as a motif to express problems that modern society has. Problem includes gender identity of the artist, negative experiences in childhood, mass production and consumption, etc. Cozo started incorporating stamps as a new technique which is partly based on Japan's unique 'Hanko' culture, but at the same time, it is expressing the mass production and mass consumption of objects and information in society. Also, using mechanical characters rather than handwritten letters expresses the emptiness of the digital society.
+Official homepage cocoart
https://www.cocoart.work/
+SNS Links
https://linktr.ee/cocoart_sns
collaboration exhibition held in the fall of 2014.
The exhibition was a collaboration of Cobun Cozo's contemporary art, textiles, and antiques in a 200-year-old former ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant). Sliding door paintings by Okyo Maruyama, folding screens presented by Ieyasu, Jingdezhen and Chinese antiques, modern Cobun Cozo's works and textiles created a different space from the East and West.
For two days only, the entire mansion, including the garden of a former ryotei restaurant that is no longer in use, was transformed into a huge installation of contemporary art.
The colors of the leaves in Kyoto were also included in this exquisite collaboration.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
★Profile
Name is Cozo Cobun(coco) .
A painter from Osaka Prefecture. In LGBT lectures and collaborations with companies, he has been involved in textile design, etc., and is active in many fields.
Since debut in 1996, he has presented works with children as motifs mainly in department stores, but since 2009 he has expanded his work to contemporary art and challenged to express himself and modern society through the subject of children . The eyes of the appealing children develop a unique world that attracts viewers.
Cozo uses a child as a motif to express problems that modern society has. Problem includes gender identity of the artist, negative experiences in childhood, mass production and consumption, etc. Cozo started incorporating stamps as a new technique which is partly based on Japan's unique 'Hanko' culture, but at the same time, it is expressing the mass production and mass consumption of objects and information in society. Also, using mechanical characters rather than handwritten letters expresses the emptiness of the digital society.
+Official homepage cocoart
https://www.cocoart.work/
+SNS Links
https://linktr.ee/cocoart_sns