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Both Masakazu and Naomi Kobayashi are established and acclaimed artists in their own right, who have recently chosen to exhibit together, giving joint expression to their common philosophy. The work is created separately and then brought together as a conscious, collaborative act. Their installation for the exhibition contains several distinct but related units. Masakazu Kobayashi’s ‘Gate of Bow’ and ‘Pond of Bow’ are made up of many tensile ‘bows’ which are created by coiling thread on a fine aluminium shaft. The distribution of these bows is deliberately random within the parameters of the piece reflecting a delicate balance between order and chaos. Beyond these dense and overlaid structures of Masakazu Kobayashi we look to Naomi Kobayashi’s white circle. Made from twisted paper thread and Washi (Japanese paper) it both contains light and allows light to pass through creating a sense of stillness. On the wall are five woven pieces by Naomi Kobayashi made from her paintings which have been torn into strips and woven. The act of weaving causes the image to move slightly giving the undulating flow across the five works. Also by Naomi Kobayashi are three Perspex boxes containing works woven from Buddhist texts written on handmade paper by her mother, and two boxes made from cotton and paper.
Studied
- Musashino Art University, Tokyo 1965 - 69
Awards
- 1981 4th International Textile Triennale, Lodz, Poland - Gold Medal
- 1989 International Textile Competition, Kyoto - Outsider Award
Recent Exhibitions Include
Group
- 1995 Soft Sculpture, Dongah Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- Sheila Hicks joined by Seven Friends and Colleagues from Japan The Brown/Grotta Gallery, CT USA
- 1996 Textile Magicians in Japan, Passage de Retz, Paris France
- Textile of Japan, Meguro Prefecture Museum, Tokyo
- Paper Road, The Art and Craft Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Textile Wizard from Japan, The Israel Museum, Israel
- 1997 Textile Art from Kyoto, Gallery M, Stockholm, Sweden
- Fibre Art in the 90's, New Jersey Centre for Visual Arts, NJ, USA
- The 10th Wave: A Celebration, The Brown/Grotta Gallery CT. USA
- 1998 Imaginations '98' Gastuiskapel, Poperinge, Belgium
- Folding' Japanese Miniatures Canberra Museum Australia
- The Holland Paper Biennale, Rijswijk Museum, Holland
- SOFA In New York & Chicago
- Structure & Surface - Contemporary Japanese Textile, Museum of Modern Art New York & touring.
- Tradition Transformed, The Brown/Grotta Gallery USA
- Oriented Textile, William Lipton Ltd. New York USA
- 1999 6th International Textile Competition, Kyoto
- SOFA New York
- 70 Designers in Tribute to Issika Gaon, the Israel Museum, Israel
- 3rd International Trienniale of Paper, Viviane Fontaine 1999, Charmey Museum Switzerland
- Handmade: Shifting Paradigms, Singapore Art Museum
- Blue Moon, Pulse Gallery, Tokyo
- Modern Design Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York USA
- 2000 Sound from Cosmos-2000, Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
- Also 1977, 79, 89, 92, 95 Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland
Public Collections
- Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
- Association Pierre Pauli, Switzerland
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
- Savaria Museum, Szombathely, Hungary
- The Museum of Contemporary Art of Merelia Mexico
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
- The Museum of Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
- American Craft Museum, New York, USA
- The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
- The Israel Museum, Israel
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York USA
- Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Gunma NAOMI
Category of Work
- Installation
Materials
- Paper thread, Japanese paper, cotton
