Lot 308
NAKANO KAORU (JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY)
TSUKI NO SHIZUKU [DROPS OF MOONLIGHT] BROOCH, 2016
Auction: MODERN MADE | Lots 1 - 422 | Fri 01 May at 10am
Description
stamped red ink seal mark (to reverse), hand crafted and prepared washi, and white metal discs, one stamped SILVER, together with a signed wooden box
Dimensions
11cm x 18.5cm (4 ¼in x 7 ¼in)
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.