http://kyotointernational.com/gallery/hiroto-rakusho-artworks Kyoto International by Onishi Gallery Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://kyotointernational.com/gallery/hiroto-rakusho-artworks#comment-5 Hiroto Rakusho & Ralph Rucci: collaboration | ONISHI GALLERY | New York Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:36:17 +0000 http://kyotointernational.com/cms/?p=59#comment-5 [...] Hiroto Rakusho was born in Kyoto in 1962. He appren­ticed with his father, Jisaku Nishiyama, win­ner of the City of Kyoto Award for Out­stand­ing Tech­ni­cal Con­tri­bu­tion to Tra­di­tional Hand­i­crafts, and was cer­ti­fied by the Min­istry of Econ­omy, Trade and Indus­try as a Mas­ter of Tra­di­tional Hand­i­crafts in 1997. He has worked to expand metal leaf design as an art form, col­lab­o­rat­ing with artists and stu­dents from diverse back­grounds in Japan and abroad. Since 2005, he has held three solo shows, two in Kyoto muse­ums and one in New York. Rakusho is an inte­gral part of dig­i­tal archive projects in Kyoto, which use dig­i­tal tech­niques to repro­duce aged ancient art­works on paper stored away in Kyoto’s muse­ums, shrines and tem­ples. This has taken him to Amer­i­can muse­ums, mak­ing repro­duc­tions which return famous Japan­ese art­works back for pub­lic view­ing. (Non-profit Kyoto Cul­ture Asso­ci­a­tion which admin­is­ters this pro­gram, will receive 10% of the pro­ceeds from sales of this exhibition.) [...] […] Hiroto Rakusho was born in Kyoto in 1962. He appren­ticed with his father, Jisaku Nishiyama, win­ner of the City of Kyoto Award for Out­stand­ing Tech­ni­cal Con­tri­bu­tion to Tra­di­tional Hand­i­crafts, and was cer­ti­fied by the Min­istry of Econ­omy, Trade and Indus­try as a Mas­ter of Tra­di­tional Hand­i­crafts in 1997. He has worked to expand metal leaf design as an art form, col­lab­o­rat­ing with artists and stu­dents from diverse back­grounds in Japan and abroad. Since 2005, he has held three solo shows, two in Kyoto muse­ums and one in New York. Rakusho is an inte­gral part of dig­i­tal archive projects in Kyoto, which use dig­i­tal tech­niques to repro­duce aged ancient art­works on paper stored away in Kyoto’s muse­ums, shrines and tem­ples. This has taken him to Amer­i­can muse­ums, mak­ing repro­duc­tions which return famous Japan­ese art­works back for pub­lic view­ing. (Non-profit Kyoto Cul­ture Asso­ci­a­tion which admin­is­ters this pro­gram, will receive 10% of the pro­ceeds from sales of this exhibition.) […]

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