SAKAI Naoki Solo Exhibition

Personal History:

2003  MA and PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School, Forging Gold

          Laboratory

2013-2018   Specialist at the Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Kanazawa

presently engaged in artistic creation in Kanazawa City

Awards among others:

2003   Nomura Art Prize(kept at Tokyo University of the Arts among its collections)

2017   Asahi Shinbun Award at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Metal Works

           Exhibition

---

“In the process of creating each form, I see the whelming heavy and cold feature peculiar to [iron] rebirth eventually into something contrary to its original feature.

People sought in art crafts not only [usefulness] but [beauty].

Artists as creators, on the other hand, in complying to the quest for [beauty],  have obtained a joy in [creating].

Such relationship has hence borne a high artistic spirit that connects [human] and [object].

Having myself as an artist in such circumstances is the great joy that I more than appreciate.”