April 18,
Setouchi Triennale 2025 has started.
The secret menu of Naoshima, ISHIKAWA Kazuharu's works are also waiting for you.
The one of them, - ' Un ' of ' a-un ' - is drawn on the wall of the historic house " Sakaiya " used to be a shipping agency had traded as far as Hokkaido in the Edo period.
The characteristic black wooden wall. Its material, ' Yakisugi ' burnt cedar boards were replaced with new ones in the major renovation in the last year.
And I've renewed my work in this spring.
Unlike an usual maintenance, it can be said the reinterpretation, the reconstruction, the re-creation in this time.
The newest Yakisugi is well-done. The surface of charcoal is too delicate to touch, you know.
It's a mystery even for the artist himself why fixing yarn on such fragile thing has succeeded.
I hope you enjoy the collaboration with the beautiful luster of charcoal. Thank you.
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