Dance

2000

Not on view

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.

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本田聖流造「舞」
Title: Dance
Artist: Honda Shōryū (Japanese, born 1951)
Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
Date: 2000
Culture: Japan
Medium: Timber bamboo and rattan
Dimensions: H. 19 1/2 × W. 24 × D. 20 in. (49.5 × 61 × 50.8 cm)
Classification: Bamboo
Credit Line: Gift of Diane and Arthur Abbey, 2019
Object Number: 2019.424.11
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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