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#exhibition #homes #wooden #woodworking #Yukihiro Akama
January 18, 2024
Kate Mothes
Photographs by Purple Images, © Yukihiro Akama, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, distributed with permission
In Huddersfield, England, half an hour’s drive from Yorkshire Sculpture Park, artist Yukihiro Akama creates a whimsical world in miniature from a furnishings maker’s workshop. In his upcoming solo exhibition at YSP – his largest to this point – the artist presents 55 wood homes intricately carved in Basho no Kankaku — A Sense of Place.
Akama, who pursued a profession in structure whereas dwelling in Japan, usually relied on digital instruments and felt disconnected from conventional strategies of constructing and dealing together with his fingers. After transferring to the UK in 2011, he started sculpting small homes that reminded him of vernacular types, similar to stilt homes, that he would see on his travels by way of Asia. Inspiration additionally comes from Japanese temples and shrines, significantly components from four,000-year-old ruins courting again to the Jōmon period.
Beginning with a hand-drawn sketch, Akama permits instinct and the traits of every piece of wooden information the ultimate design. Tough items of lumber are remodeled into glossy, low types or tall, slender constructions ranging in dimension from a bit of bigger than a fifty-cent piece—about 1.5 inches—to greater than 40 inches tall. Generally the artist provides an impact within the cantilever, sometimes sticking to pebbles and clay so as to add natural textures to the surfaces, then ending with a torch sphere earlier than sharpening.
Basho no Kankaku — A Sense of Place it is going to be on view from March 9 to June 30, and you could find out extra on the park’s web site. Discover extra of the artist’s work on his web site and Instagram.
Work in progress. Photograph by Benedict Phillips
#exhibition #homes #wooden #woodworking #Yukihiro Akama
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