Artist talkFriday 10 May 2019
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Artist Talk: Haruo Mitsuta in conversation with Giuseppe Piva and Manuela Moscatiello
Drinks reception: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to introduce the unique works of the acclaimed Japanese artist Haruo Mitsuta to the UK public.
Mitsuta is the only living artist who makes contemporary Jizai Okimono (“articulated animals”) – flexible animal figures made from metal pieces, which can replicate the movements of the original animals. Originally they were made by armourers in the late Edo and the Meiji period.
Inspired by traditional figures, Mitsuta creates a new kind of Jizai Okimono, based on the concept of 金属による命の再現 (Reproduction of life with metal).
For this event, chaired by Manuela Moscatiello, Japanese Collection Curator of the Cernuschi Museum in Paris, Mitsuta was joined in conversation by Giuseppe Piva, Director of the Giuseppe Piva Japanese Art Gallery in Milan, to discuss his practice, the works on show and the beauty behind Jizai Okimono.
Presentation by Giuseppe PivaListing image: © Tadasu YAMAMOTO
A video of the talk can be found here:
About the contributors
Haruo Mitsuta (満田晴穂)
Haruo Mitsuta (b. 1980) was born in Yonago, Japan. He has won several awards, including the Grand Prize of “The 2nd Art Plaza Grand Prize – Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music” in 2007. Mitsuta’s solo exhibitions include: “JIZAI”, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo (2010, 2012, 2014). Group exhibitions include: “Moeglichkeit II”, Radium von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo (2009), “KOH-JUTSU”, Spiral, Tokyo (2010).
Giuseppe Piva
Giuseppe Piva is third-generation antique dealer, owner and founder of the Giuseppe Piva Gallery in Milan. He specialises in antique Japanese art and is known among collectors worldwide, having contributed to enrich the collections of many museums and institutions. The gallery is located in the heart of Milan and participates in Asia Week New York, the most important venue for Asian art. The gallery specialises in samurai arms and armour, folding screens, lacquer, and rare works of art.
Manuela Moscatiello
Manuela Moscatiello (Chair) has been responsible for collections of Japanese art at the Musée Cernuschi since July 2016. Her research fields include France-Japan relations in the 19th century and Japanese art of the Edo and Meiji periods. She has coordinated various exhibitions and written academic papers and edited several publications on Japanese artists. KAMISAKA SEKKA – Les Herbes de l’éternité; HOKUSAI – Manuel de dessins; Les Fleurs précieuses du jardin mystérieux – Itô Jakuchû, among others. In 2011, she received the Society for the Study of Japonisme Award for her Le Japonisme de Giuseppe De Nittis, Un peintre italien en France a la fin du XIXe siècle. She was previously a researcher at the Far Eastern Art Study Centre in Bologna and was responsible for the Oriental Art Room at the museum of the University of Bologna.