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Opening this Saturday 3rd July members of the
Sogetsu School Branch of Melbourne will be showing arrangements at
Kazari Collector. One of the most avant garde schools of Japanese
flower arranging, Sogetsu was founded in 1927 in Japan and has just
celebrated 50 years of practice in Australia with the visit of the
current grand Master Iemoto Akane Teshigahara. The Melbourne branch
has around 50 members, a number of whom assisted Sogetsu Master
Tetsunori Kawana with his bamboo sculpture created for the National
Gallery of Victoria last year, along with a number of teachers and
regular demonstrators in Melbourne and Kazari artist
Evan Demas.
Pair of early Meiji period literati landscape screens Signed: Tanomura Chokunyu (1814 - 1907) Like his master and adoptive father Tanomura Chikuden, Tanomura Chokunyu was an esteemed nanga painter (artists concerned with being literati scholars, influenced by classical Chinese painting, often creating ink landscapes). Working in Kyoto, he helped establish and became the first director of the Kyoto Municipal School of Fine Arts and Crafts, and thereafter founded the Nihon Nanga Kyokai. With a commitment to Chinese style painting he remains a leading Meiji period exponent of the nanga tradition and along with producing poetry and calligraphy (in accordance with nanga traditions) he was a juror for many exhibitions and had many pupils. Two similar screens dating to the same period are housed at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, other works can be found in the Ashmoleum Museum Oxford, the British Museum, and the Idemitsu Art Gallery Tokyo. View screens at the Musuem of Fine Arts Boston
Fragments of Landscape With over 25 years as a ceramic artist, this
will be Jill Symes' 5th exhibition with
Kazari.
ASAHI SILVER + BLACK EXHIBITION AND RETAIL INITIATIVE An Asahi initiated project featuring international artists and designers including selected pieces from Kazari and a special installation by Kazari represented artist Evan Demas. Exhibition 8th - 18th April: 1000 pound bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street. For more information and Sydney dates: www.asahibeer.com.au
Japanese
Fine Art
Genji-e
Embodiment Arka V More Information Faustas Sadauskas
John Bartlett
Exhibition at Kazari
Collector
Demas created a large scale, site specific installation exploring line, mass and material influenced by avant garde Ikebana practice
Installation detail - Evan Demas Photo: 2009 © Lucy Joyce
Exhibition Opening Thursday 28th May until 25th June with guest appearance by Butoh dancer Yumi Umimare
Collectable Chinese Furniture Exhibition: 2nd - 30th April A major exhibition of Chinese antique furniture ranging from the late Ming Dynasty to the Middle Qing Dynasty: C16th - C19th. Over 70 works including rare and exotic hardwood tables as well as softwood provincial example, all hand selected by Kazari directors over more than a decade.
Made In China: 3 Photographic Portfolios Concurrent Exhibition: 2nd April (Opening 6.30pm) - 30th April Melbourne-based photographers; Georgia Metaxas, Louis Porter and Josh Robenstone display their individual projects created in Beijing during the Olympic games of 2008.
John Lord & Mary
Stewart Collection 26th February - 21st March 2009 DOWNLOAD COMPLETE CATALOGUE (PDF) Contact the gallery for
further previews and further information
To see a
limited number of works for the exhibition click here
Fresh Edges: Timeless Pieces Summer 08/09
Young artists work with esoteric and timeless fine arts & antiques Featuring origami and paper works, steel sculpture, digital prints and mixed media by: Evan Demas, Andrea Innocent, Julie Goodwin, Julia St Mire, Kaori Katou, Krista Stewart and other Kazari artists. This show will reflect approaches now taken by curators of international public galleries such as the V&A and our own NGV, where works reference each other regardless of when and where they were created, negating the need the need for white cube space in which to show contemporary art.
A Floating Life: Japanese prints - the collection of Dr Gary Hickey Exhibition and Sale
more... Yoshitoshi Tsukioka(1839–92)
Cooling off at Shijō(Shijō
nōryō)
Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know Monday 28th July Kazari Collector
An illustrated lecture by Dr Melissa Chiu Museum Director & Vice President Global Art Programs Asia Society, New York
Dr Meliissa Chiu Zhang Huan, Family Tree (2000) detail, Photograph, Courtesy the artist
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