Members of Club Nippon

In July Danish Museum of Art and Design open the exhibition THE POETRY OF SHAPE, a presentation of almost 100 works of lacquerwareby the Japanese artist Nagatoshi Onishi (born 1933).

Onishi is an artist with an international reputation and he is an institution in the art of Japanese lacquerware, both as practicing craftsman and formerly as professor in the subject of lacquerware at the Academy of Art in Tokyo, a subject he is now teaching at his own center for lacqerware GANSEN at Moroto outside Tokyo.

Onishi is inspired by nature and taken with Scandinavian design. He has renewed the tradition of urushi with lacquerware in a idiom, that excels by great simplicity. Organic shapes stands pure and stringent in unicolored vessels, bowls and objects in red, black and sometimes gold. It is important for Onishi, that the objects are not only visually appealing, but can also function in daily use, where they are worn to a new beauty.

On the occasion of the exhibition it is the pleasure of the Danish Museum of Art and Shape to invite the members of Club Nippon to the opening of THE POETRY OF SHAPE, thursday July 3rd at 15.00 in Festsalen (lectue room) of the Danish Museum of Art and Shape. The Exhibition will be opened by His Excellency, the Japanese Ambassador to Denmark, Mr. Masaki Okada. Professor Onishi will be present at the opening.

On the same occasion a joint evening arrangement, will be organised by the Danish Museum of Art and Shape for the members of the Danish Museum of Art and Shape Friends, for memebers of Denmark-Japan Society and Club Nippon, on Tuesday July 8 at 19.30 in Festsalen (lecture room). This will be a unique opportunity to hear Professor Nagatoshi Onishi himself tell about his work as an artist and about lacquerware technique (in English and Japanese with translator) and museuminspector Ulla Houkjær will give a short introduction in Danish to his work and workmethods.

-------Pease note, that there are no reservations for this event-------