ART OF KYOTO

NEW YORK — Onishi Gallery is proud to present “col­lab­o­ra­tion”, a two-person show of art­works by Kyoto Gold Leaf Mas­ter Hiroto Rakusho and New York fash­ion designer Ralph Rucci. Four large scale works painted in acrylic by Rucci on gold, bronze or sil­ver leaf pan­els cre­ated by Rakusho, mark a rich, nuanced, cross-cultural under­stand­ing. Each […]

NEW YORK —For this Asia Week in New York, Onishi Gallery is pleased to import Gold Lead Kyoto, Hiroto Rakusho another impor­tant exhi­bi­tion spon­sored by The Kyoto Inter­na­tional Cul­tural Foun­da­tion and other cul­tural and gov­ern­ment groups in the area, which high­lights both the his­tor­i­cal and con­tem­po­rary uses of gold and sil­ver metal leaf in Japanese […]

Sev­enty years ago, famed Marx­ist philoso­pher Wal­ter Ben­jamin pub­lished his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechan­i­cal Repro­duc­tion” to ana­lyze the con­cepts of orig­i­nal­ity and cre­ativ­ity in a world still com­ing to terms with new tech­nol­ogy in the form of pho­tog­ra­phy, mimeo­graphs and other modes of repro­duc­tion. Ben­jamin wanted to know if […]

ARTEXPO in New York We have par­tic­i­pated in ARTEXPO in New York, the world’s largest exhi­bi­tion from March 2nd through 6th, 2006. The High-definition repro­duc­tions and gold leaf appli­ca­tion demon­stra­tion were highly acclaimed among the vis­i­tors. It was cov­ered in var­i­ous media in the world includ­ing the New York Times, which reflected the grow­ing inter­ests in […]