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Tokujin Yoshioka

“Japanese contemporary artist and designer Tokujin Yoshioka looks to the relationship between nature and human senses, producing works transcending boundaries within the design and art sphere, unconstrained by material or form. Renowned globally for his experimental creativity and experiential works, Tokujin looks closely at found occurrences and energy in nature, from optical reflections and refractions in light, to morphogenic processes in mineral crystal formation. This, then becomes the art itself…Tokujin creates new relations to the world embedded with the fundamentals of way of design thinking, both with natural materials and new innovations in technology. With work ranging from full-scale light installations with complex light prisms, to an all-glass traditionally-inspired yet contemporary Japanese glass tea house situated on a Kyoto mountaintop Tokujin closely articulates the spontaneity of nature with a mindful exploration in materials from glass and brass, to paper and even “baked fiber” polyester elastomer. After having studied and worked with revered Japanese designers Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake, Tokujin found himself continuing his ongoing and now 20-year-long collaborative work with Miyake whilst establishing his own artistic practice and design studio in 2000; now working with LouisVuitton, Cartier, LG to name a few, whilst conducting solo exhibitions and exhibiting works at the Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) in New York, Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) in Tokyo….Visiting Tokujin at his studio in Tokyo, it was nothing short of special. Found in the small backstreets of Daikanyama, his studio is located in a 150 year-old converted rice warehouse with an added concrete entrance, designed by Tokujin himself.”

-Champ Magazine


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