Takasuke Yamada: Earth and Stone
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Born in Miyagi, Takasuke Yamada graduated from the Graphic Design department of Central Saint Martins in London. He is the fifth-generation chief of Okurayama Studio, a family-run stone quarry known for producing Datekanmuri Stone, once cherished by sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Caring for the mountain and engaging in a quiet dialogue with stone, he has refined his artistic sensibility.
For his first exhibition with us, Yamada works with materials including Datekanmuri Stone and Okura Sabi Earth, exploring the earth's memory and the traces of time embedded in Miyagi and Okurayama. Through paintings and objects, he expresses the cyclical relationship between earth and stone.
[Artist’s Statement]
The Datekanmuri Stone of Okurayama was born through volcanic activity and tectonic movements. Over the vast span of twenty million years, shaped by seawater, it has quietly returned to the earth.
I walk the mountain every day and scoop up the soil with my hands. From that soil, I make pigments, mix them into paint, and paint the form of stone.
This is not an attempt to trace a form that has been lost. Rather, it is an act of allowing the memory that has become soil to move once again toward the form of stone.
To paint: I hope that, even for a moment, you may sense the traces of presence and the layers of time dwelling in the space between stone and soil.
For his first exhibition with us, Yamada works with materials including Datekanmuri Stone and Okura Sabi Earth, exploring the earth's memory and the traces of time embedded in Miyagi and Okurayama. Through paintings and objects, he expresses the cyclical relationship between earth and stone.
[Artist’s Statement]
The Datekanmuri Stone of Okurayama was born through volcanic activity and tectonic movements. Over the vast span of twenty million years, shaped by seawater, it has quietly returned to the earth.
I walk the mountain every day and scoop up the soil with my hands. From that soil, I make pigments, mix them into paint, and paint the form of stone.
This is not an attempt to trace a form that has been lost. Rather, it is an act of allowing the memory that has become soil to move once again toward the form of stone.
To paint: I hope that, even for a moment, you may sense the traces of presence and the layers of time dwelling in the space between stone and soil.