- Artist: Yukito Nishinaka
- Size: W7.5cmxH10.0cm x D10.0cm
- Material: Glass
Pursue the original glass expression created from the traditional Japanese sense of beauty, with the theme of “Glitter of Life and Reborn”.
Yukito Nishinaka’s representative works are “Glass Yobitsugi” and “Glass Karesansui.”
The philosophy of Glass Yobitsugi is “Shatter to Reborn and Create the Future". He accepts the cracks of the vessel as beauty—then emphasizes and restores them—whereas such defects would be typically considered undesirable in the world. To go beyond the present to reborn, he breaks his own works and rejoins them into new single form.
"Glass Karesansui" is the art space, which is a modern version of Karesansui Garden, made of glass objects created from recycled bottle, moss and gravel. The 40-meters long glass installation located at the approach to Kyoto Honen-in Temple represents metempsychosis and peace of mind, as well as the importance of a sustainable society through resource recycling.
1964 Born in Wakayama, Japan
Education and Work Experience:
- 1998-2001 Teaching Assistant at the 11th-14th Art Festival at Niijima Glass Art Center, Tokyo
- 1998 Founded Nishinaka Yukito GLASS STUDIO
- 1995-1997 Worked as an assistant at Toyama Institute of Glass Art
- 1991-1994 Learned Sculpture and Glass at California College of the Arts
- 1989-90 Worked at Kagami Crystal CO.LTD. , Tokyo
- 1988 Graduated from Hoshi University of Pharmacy , Tokyo
- 1986 Northwest University , China
Exhibition:
- 2020 COLLECT, Somerset House, London
ONE ART TAIPEI, Taiwan
- 2019 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (Florida, the US)
- 2019 FINE ART ASIA (Hong Kong)
- 2019 LIVING KOGEI at Art Museum, Hong Kong University (Hong Kong)
- 2018 ART NEW YORK(New York, the US)
- 2018 FINE ART ASIA(Hong Kong)
- 2018 Japonismes Objets inspirés, 1867-2018 , Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Paris, France)
- 2017 LA ART SHOW (Los Angeles, the US)
- 2017 Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa (Kanazawa)
- 2016 MASTERPIECE LONDON(London, the UK)
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2018 MASTERPIECE LONDON(London, the UK)
- 2019 MASTERPIECE LONDON(London, the UK)
- 2015 PAD LONDON(London, the UK)
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2016 PAD LONDON(London, the UK)
- 2014 GOLD: ALL THAT GLISTERS-JAPANESE GOLD DECORATION (London, the UK)
- 2012-2019 COLLECT Saatchi Gallery (London, the UK)
- 2012 MAISON & OBJET(Paris, France)
- 2011 SOFA(Chicago, the US
- 2016 SOFA(Chicago, the US)
- LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair(London, the UK)
- 2010 Everything Japan Shop, Grand Hyatt Hotel (Mumbai, India)
- 2010 SOFA ( International Expositions of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art ) (New York, the US)
- 2009 Passione Giappone, Galleria Gracis (Milano, Italy)
- 2008 Fine Art Open House (Maastricht, Netherland)
- 2008 Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair (London, the UK)
- 2007-2013 Asian Art in London (London, the UK)
- 2000 Japanese Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition (Yamaguchi)
- 2001-2019 “Nishinaka Yukito Glass Exhibition” at Matsuya, Meitetsu Department Store, Fukuya, Takashimaya, GinzaWako (Tokyo), LIXIL Gallery (Tokyo)
- 1997 ”PEACE by PIECE” at Art gallery, Wacoal Ginza
- 1995 “GLASS as FINE ART” at MORRIS Gallery (Tokyo)