Lot 307
NAKANO KAORU (JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY)
LOOPED & TWISTED RED BROOCH, 2008
Auction: MODERN MADE | Lots 1 - 422 | Fri 01 May at 10am
Description
hand crafted and prepared washi, with red lacquer, with white metal backing stamped SILVER, together with original box
Dimensions
10cm x 10cm (4in x 4in)
Provenance
with Leslie Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, from whom acquired by the present owner;
Private Collection, London.
Footnote
"To attire oneself is to move from the mundane to the extraordinary. I want the objects to make statements about the being, the existence, the identity of the person wearing them...I want them to be something to be looked at. So for me they are sculpture."
Celebrated Japanese artist Nakano Kaoru creates sculptural brooches from washi, the traditional handmade paper made from paper-mulberry fibres. Through folding, rolling and binding the paper into layered forms, she produces intricate, organic structures that are both lightweight and durable. Her work transforms a humble traditional material into striking contemporary jewellery that blurs the boundary between adornment and sculpture.