TAKARA ２ KIM Young-gon（Korea）
You may be familiar with KIM's fantastic works. Although you can't see his face hidden behind his glasses, his works are rich in emotion,...
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Jan 211 min read
TAKARA 19 Katsuya Horikoshi (Okayama pref.)
Horikoshi stopped by BIOME when he came to the Kansai region. (To top it off, he also took the opportunity to do some sketching in the...
Jan 201 min read
TAKARA 20 Mihoko Morimoto (Kanagawa pref.)
KAMAKURA-BORI(carvings). Morimoto told me that Kamakura City in Kanagawa Prefecture, where the samurai government was born, actively...
Jan 181 min read
TAKARA 21 Naoko Wada（Hyogo pref.）
It is often said that the world is a small place, and when it became clear that Naoko Wada was a friend of a friend, I realized that she...
Jan 171 min read
TAKARA ９ Shima Koike（Chiba pref.）
Koike says that glass is ambivalent. While it is beautiful and delicate, it is also violent and insane and can cause injury if...
Jan 171 min read
TAKARA ６ Yuuki Kashiwagi（Gunma pref.）
Yuuki Kashiwagi is an artist who works with woodblock prints. Not many people may be able to get the idea of "pixel woodblock prints."...
Jan 161 min read
TAKARA 17 Natsumi Noda（Tokyo pref.）
As you can see, Noda's works are more like "paintings" than "tableware" that grabs the viewer's heart. The bright, relaxed, and...
Jan 161 min read
TAKARA 18 Syunsai Hata（Toyama pref.）
I started the tea ceremony because, as a child, I was interested in putting away the utensils in their original state. It was not a joke,...
Jan 141 min read
TAKARA 13 Yoko Tanaka（Ibaraki pref.）
Yoko Tanaka works under the theme of "making a moment eternal. Ceramics have a long history and are now world-class pottery and vessels,...
Jan 141 min read
TAKARA 12 Yuji Takahashi
Takahashi held an exhibition of heavy machinery at BIOME in October 2023. It was made possible by a strong request from a guest who...
Jan 141 min read
TAKARA 15 Rei Toyoda（Kanagawa pref.）
As a child, she loved to play in the mud. In univiesty, she majored in Spanish. I found this information about Toyoda on the Internet. In...
Jan 121 min read
TAKARA 16 Katsumi Nishikawa（Kanagawa Pfef）
Many works of art depict buildings and houses, and BIOME has featured them several times. They are attractive as structures, reflecting...
Jan 111 min read
TAKARA 11 Takeshi Sumi
Sumi is an artist who cannot be categorized. His principal works include photography and painting. In the former, he adds analog touches...
Jan 111 min read
TAKARA 8 Tomoko Kyuki（Hyogo pref.）
Soon after I started BIOME, I learned she was based in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture. Although we started saying we should see each other...
Jan 101 min read
TAKARA 14 Ibuki Chiba（Hyogo Pref.）
Chiba is a Kobe-based artist who also does illustrations, workshops, and other artwork at facilities in Kobe. He has also visited BIOME...
Jan 91 min read
TAKARA 10 SHIROKURO Eeyonn（Saitama pref.）
The artist's name is "SHIROKURO Eeyon. To translate into English, I looked up the meaning of the artist's name in Japanese and found the...
Jan 91 min read
TAKARA 5 Takefumi Aoki（Gifu pref.）
Aoki's works are composed of a mysterious shape and process of cutting cast-molded vessels into pieces and joining them back together...
Jan 81 min read
TAKARA １ Cathy Franzi（Australia）
I feel that Cathy's ceramic works have many elements that Japanese people easily recognise. However, I am fascinated by the form and the...
Jan 71 min read
TAKARA 3 Marion Elliot（UK）
Marion's vibrant cutout collage was chosen as the key visual for the TAKARAMONO for OKURIMONO 2024 exhibition. I have been following...
Jan 71 min read
TAKARA ７ Hiroko Kaneko（Kanagawa Pref.）
I am looking for glass artwork that BIOME could handle two years ago. I want to take this opportunity to say that I do not select artists...
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