urushiart– category –

At that time, I was living in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and had just had a child. One day, I happened to see a program on French television about maki-e, a traditional Japanese art. The delicate patterns created on urushi lacquer....

I visited the exhibition “Chambers of Wonder: We Shall Vanish — Yasumasa Morimura, Kenji Yanobe, Miwa Yanagi” at Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka. I was especially drawn to the contemporary artworks using urushi lacquer. Seeing lacquer n...