Shoko Taruma - STREAM

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The Muse Gallery proudly presents

Shoko Taruma
STREAM 

Opening Night: Thursday, 13th February, 6.30-9.00pm
13th February -1st March 2020

‘Stream’ has two meanings to me, the flow of history and the fluidity of lacquer.  
 Shoko Taruma – Artist
 
The work is deep black, transformed by light irradiation. Analogous forms that mirror the ever-changing flow of history, through curved surfaces of black Japanese lacquer.
 
Japanese lacquer is a natural paint, a medium 12600 years old. It was traditionally used for tools and vessels of daily life, the decorations of magnificence, pride and power; and in religion, for the statues of Buddha. 
 
Since ancient times, the Japanese sense of beauty has been aligned with the principles of nature and the perception of beauty found in ‘darkness’. Low ambient light of Japanese houses engendered mediums with highly reflective surfaces, the mediums of objects that retained their form in the half-light. 
 
These objects held light, colour and their reflective surfaces, a sense of beauty called ‘The worship of shadows’.  Having travelled extensively around Kyoto, Shoko Taruma presents a new exhibition of contemporary art that celebrates the principle of ‘shadow’ and the flow of the medium. 

Streamには私にとって二つの意味があります。歴史の流れと、漆の流動的な流れの形です。 - 柞磨祥子
 
漆は日本で12600年前から使用されてきた、自然の塗料です。
日常生活のための器や道具、権力や誇りを表す豪華な装飾、仏像をはじめとして信仰の場でも使われてきました。
 
光によって変化する深い黒歴史の流れと、流動的な流れの形曲面と漆の黒。
 
昔から日本人が自然の中で培ってきた美意識の一つに、「闇」の中で美を見出す美しい感性があります。
暗がりのある日本家屋、乏しい光の中における効果、ともし火を反射する加減を考慮した漆器の肌、幾重もの「闇」が堆積したような色使いなど、その美意識は「陰翳礼讚」と呼ばれています。柞磨祥子はその影響を受けて、京都に拠点を構え、古き良き「陰翳」の概念から現代の流れを具現化した現代美術の作品を発表しています。

Shoko TARUMA was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She received her M.A. in Kyoto City University of Arts in 2016. As a full time artist, she now also lectures urushi lacquering at Kyoto City University of Arts.

selected exhibition: 

solo exhibitions

2019 ・ stream-2, arton art gallery, Kyoto, Japan ・Stream,The Gallery by SOIL, Hong Kong

2018 ・Existance in Black, Gallery haku, Osaka, Japan ・Skye Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan

(permanent exhibition, resort hotel collection)
2015 ・ Liquid1, arton art gallery, Kyoto, Japan

group exhibition / art fair

2019 ・ Selected Emerging Artists Exhibition 2019, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan

          ・Infinity Japan, hotel royal-nikko Taipei, Taiwan 
          ・Master Jewelry & Craft Show Taiwan, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, Taipei, Taiwan

2018 ・ 3 Dimensions, The Muse Gallery, London

          ・Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Hotel Okura Fukuoka, Japan

2016 ・Art Rainbow Project, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany

         ・Unlock the future of URUSHI, Wajima Museum of Urushi Art, Ishikawa, Japan

         ・Japan-Korea Exchange exhibition, Gangneung Museum of Art, Korea

Professional class maki-e lacquer 

12.02.2020, 6pm 
book ticket: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professional-class-maki-e-lacquer-with-shoko-taruma-tickets-89052996911

1.03.2020, 10am
book ticket: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professional-class-maki-e-lacquer-with-shoko-taruma-tickets-89053462303

(all Japanese materials included)
Duration : 150 - 180 mins

Experience lacquer decoration techniques - lacquer painting and maki-e lacquer decoration. (maki-e lacquer : lacquer ware decoration technique – designs drawn in lacquer. Wet lacquer is then sprinkled with gold, silver or other metal powders.)

Gold leaf 金箔


29.02.2020,10am


book ticket:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gold-leaf-workshops-with-shoko-taruma-tickets-89052557597

(all Japanese materials included)

Duration : 120 mins