Dance

Honda Shōryū Japanese

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Honda Shōryū, who studied with Kadota Nikō, creates undulating, complex sculptures with light, openwork textures. Dance, made of thinly twined bamboo that has been dyed and lacquered in warm colors, is composed of two sections twisted together to suggest the frisson of a pas de deux. Meticulous twining (nawame-ami) was required to join the thin bamboo strips, each of which is a fraction of an inch wide but 10 feet long. Once the net-like structure was prepared, the piece was softened in hot water and kneaded into shape. Rejected as a full member of the Japanese Art Crafts Association, Shōryū was admitted to the Nitten exhibition in 2000, the same year he made Dance.

Dance, Honda Shōryū (Japanese, born 1951), Timber bamboo and rattan, Japan

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Dance, Honda Shōryū (Japanese, born 1951), Timber bamboo and rattan, Japan
Dance, Honda Shōryū (Japanese, born 1951), Timber bamboo and rattan, Japan

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