本間一秋造　「いぶき」|Breath

Honma Kazuaki

1968 · Smoked dwarf bamboo, dyed timber bamboo, and rattan · Asian Art

Honma Kazuaki, based in Niigata Prefecture, was a disciple in the 1950s of the Tokyo-based artist Hayashi Shōgetsusai (1911–1986), who specialized in bent bamboo works. Kazuaki became renowned for his abstract, large-scale compositions in bent bamboo, which he submitted to the Japanese Modern Craft and Art Exhibitions and Nitten beginning in 1965. Breath was made using unsplit stems of smoked dwarf bamboo (hōbichiku), which the artist bent over a gas burner, and thin strips of timber bamboo.

Artist

Honma Kazuaki

Date

1968

Medium

Smoked dwarf bamboo, dyed timber bamboo, and rattan

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Diane and Arthur Abbey, 2019