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Message from the Future
What are we going to feel, grasp, and imagine from
all works of art placed, hanged and set up here in Kiryu Performing
Arts Center. In the making of their pieces, every artist visited
the sight and started with picturing, conceptualizing and simply
drawing a sketch. It went beyond expectations of the architectural
design. For each artist, it was a discovering process of the origin
that would confront new environment.
All works of art hold significant theme of universal
beauty and embodiment of flexible mind; as a result, they display
equivalent strength to extremely unique architecture of the center.
By not relying and falling into line with the originality of the
architecture, this project had produced some epochal pieces.
Among those pieces a work of art that deserves a special
mention is "Steelweave I" in the atrium.
It is a result of fateful encounter of stainless steel
yarn and macrogauze technique. This project superbly united a
new material inspired by the idea of worldly known textile planner
Junichi Arai and the original weaving technique of stunningly
skilled, wise and witty Peter Collingwood, the weaver. His work
"Steelweave I" should be recognized as a historical
event and will be acknowledged by coming generations. Something
that is happening only here in Kiryu, truly the "world's
first at Kiryu".
It was a creation as well as an answer to a call of
the future at the base of tradition.
I can not give enough thanks for this opportunity filled
with creativity and excitement. I would really like for people
to face each piece and understand the messages sent out from them.
with great appreciation, May 1997
Kiryu Performing Arts Center Art Work Coordinator Minori
Yamazaki
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