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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 :
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

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