Yukito Nishinaka
- YOBITSUGI : Eternity, 2019- Archive -
- Glass, silver leaf
H 38.5 x 17.5 x 17.5cm
- YOBITSUGI : ‘Beauty in Imperfection’ Rock, 2017
- Glass, gold leaf, silver leaf
H 38 x 18 x 15cm During an interview, Nishinaka said, “Actually I hate to smash the glasses I created with heart and soul, but to create something new, I need to destroy what I can create at this moment and I need to drive myself forward.” Nishinaka’s work is the way he lives.
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- YOBITSUGI : ‘Beauty in Imperfection’ Flame, 2017- Archive -
- Glass, gold leaf, silver leaf
H 26 x 19.5 x 19.5 cm I am thinking of the old time when Japanese people found beauty in the fatal cracks on pottery. During the age of provincial wars, Samurai enjoyed tea in the middle of life or death fights. I often wonder what Samurai wanted to express by highlighting cracks with gold. With my own interpretation, I pursue the beauty of cracks based on the spirit of imperfect beauty. I smash the vase I have created and melt, then bond again. I express the blink of life with the fragility and strengths of glass.
Yukito Nishinaka
Biography
- 1964
- Born in Wakayama, Japan
- 1983
- Entered faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan
- 1986
- Studied Chinese Literature, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
- 1988
- Graduated faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan
- 1989-90
- Worked at Kagami Crystal Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- 1991-94
- Studied art of sculpture and glass, California College of the Arts, California, U.S.A.
- 1994
- Art Now Kanazawa: 33rd Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, Japan
- 1995
- Glass in Japan, Museo de Segovia, Segovia, Spain
- 1995-97
- Teaching Assistant, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan
- 1997
- Grand Prix, 1st Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Satsuma, Satsumacho Glass History Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Art Now Kanazawa: 36th Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, Japan - 1998
- Established Yukito Nishinaka Studio, Chiba, Japan
- 1999
- 5th Feeling of Beauty- Kogei Exhibition, Takashimaya, Tokyo, Yokoyama, Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
Glass '99 in Japan – Splendor of the Unknown, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, Japan - 2000
- Japanese Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Onoda Sunpark, Yamaguchi, Japan
Years of Japanese Glass: From the Yayoi Period to the Present Day, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan - 2001
- Beauty of Glass Exhibition, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Second Prize, Wakaura Site Contest, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan
1st Japan Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Onoda, Onoda City Kirara Koryukan, Yamaguchi, Japan - 2005
- Nishinaka Yukito Glass Exhibition, Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
- 2006
- Kinokuni Achievemen Award, Wakayama Culture and Arts Center, Wakayama, Japan
- 2008
- Culture Achievement Award, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan
- 2010
- Special Jury Prize, Blamagurankai 8, Sapporo Art Park Craft Hall, Hokkaido, Japan
- 2011
- Okuwa Culture Achievement Award, Okuwa Educational and Cultural Promotion Foundation, Wakayama, Japan
- 2012
- 5th The Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki 2012, Koganezaki Crystal Park, Shizuoka, Japan
- 2014
- Nishinaka Yukito Exhibition, Tamesaburo Memorial Museum in Furukawa Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
- 2016
- Nishinaka Yukito Exhibition, Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan
- 2017
- 3rd Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Nishinaka Yukito: Eternity Captured in a Moment - Stepping into a Meditative Space of Glass Art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan
Naruto Art Gate Illumination 2017, Naruto City Muyagawa Shinsui Park, Tokushima, Japan - 2018 -19
- Japon-Japonismes, Objets inspirés 1867-2018, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
- 2019
- Living Kogei: Contemporary Japanese Craft from The Ise Collection, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Permanent installation, a new-age zen garden Eternal Affinity using recycled glass, Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan - 2020
- Artist in residence project Creators Work-ation 2020; organized by Ise City, Mie, Japan
- Public and Private Collections :
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Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Ashmolean Museum Oxford, UK
Fundacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio, Segovia, Spain
Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
Sapporo Art Park Craft Hall, Japan
Satsuma Glass Museum, Japan
Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Yamaha Music Foundation, Japan
Joryuji Temple, Japan
Daikokuya Collection, Japan
Musée Cernuschi, France