Kazunari Sakamoto: Domy – the poetics of everyday life
Opening: September 6, 2005, at 6 PM
The exhibition will last until: October 20, 2005
Kazunari Sakamoto is one of the most significant contemporary Japanese architects focused on housing.
The exhibition was presented in Europe for the first time at the Munich Pinakothek of Modern Art, where the author's works—key projects for both individual and collective housing from 1969 to the present—were showcased on a large scale. The presentation of the exhibition in the Czech Republic was initiated by The Japan Foundation and the Japanese Embassy as part of the officially government-approved program "2005: The Year of Interpersonal Relations between the EU and Japan."
After Brno, the exhibition will also be presented to the audience in Prague.
Kazunari Sakamoto, born in 1943, recipient of the Toga Murana Award and the Japan Architectural Institute Award, successor to architect Kazuo Shinohara at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, has been researching the seemingly "obvious" for 35 years.
Discovering the beauty of the everyday is a central theme of Buddhist aesthetics.
In the Japanese context, this theme has found a very exceptional way of expression.
Sakamoto's residential buildings realize "so far unnoticed, independent worlds in the depths of everyday life." They are multilayered structures that, unlike the flawless sight-focused concrete surfaces of another famous Japanese—Tadao Ando—do not adhere to classical aesthetic principles. Sakamoto, in perfect harmony with the materials used, achieves spatial openness through sheer transparency.
The buildings are pragmatic and designed with great precision. Seemingly uncultivated, raw, or imperfect, they relate only to their immediate surroundings.
And yet, they draw attention to central questions of personal and social norms.
The exhibition partially realizes Sakamoto's spatial experiment.
The foundation consists of a series of large photographic canvases presenting 14 of the author's works. When looking at the photographs—mostly interiors—the viewer experiences the illusion of real presence in this space.
At the same time, drawings, short descriptive texts, and three-dimensional models offer a detailed exploration and spatial understanding of the buildings.
A film by the famous Japanese photographer Homma Takashi brings the houses closer, including their context.
As a teacher, Kazunari Sakamoto has had a fundamental influence on the youngest generation of Tokyo architects.
He has been a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 1971, and his work has long been accompanied, among other things, by discussions about architecture with philosopher Koji Taki.
At the opening of the exhibition, Kazunari Sakamoto's student, architect Kunio Nakai, will present his teacher's projects.
The exhibition will last until: October 20, 2005
Kazunari Sakamoto is one of the most significant contemporary Japanese architects focused on housing.
The exhibition was presented in Europe for the first time at the Munich Pinakothek of Modern Art, where the author's works—key projects for both individual and collective housing from 1969 to the present—were showcased on a large scale. The presentation of the exhibition in the Czech Republic was initiated by The Japan Foundation and the Japanese Embassy as part of the officially government-approved program "2005: The Year of Interpersonal Relations between the EU and Japan."
After Brno, the exhibition will also be presented to the audience in Prague.
Kazunari Sakamoto, born in 1943, recipient of the Toga Murana Award and the Japan Architectural Institute Award, successor to architect Kazuo Shinohara at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, has been researching the seemingly "obvious" for 35 years.
Discovering the beauty of the everyday is a central theme of Buddhist aesthetics.
In the Japanese context, this theme has found a very exceptional way of expression.
Sakamoto's residential buildings realize "so far unnoticed, independent worlds in the depths of everyday life." They are multilayered structures that, unlike the flawless sight-focused concrete surfaces of another famous Japanese—Tadao Ando—do not adhere to classical aesthetic principles. Sakamoto, in perfect harmony with the materials used, achieves spatial openness through sheer transparency.
The buildings are pragmatic and designed with great precision. Seemingly uncultivated, raw, or imperfect, they relate only to their immediate surroundings.
And yet, they draw attention to central questions of personal and social norms.
The exhibition partially realizes Sakamoto's spatial experiment.
The foundation consists of a series of large photographic canvases presenting 14 of the author's works. When looking at the photographs—mostly interiors—the viewer experiences the illusion of real presence in this space.
At the same time, drawings, short descriptive texts, and three-dimensional models offer a detailed exploration and spatial understanding of the buildings.
A film by the famous Japanese photographer Homma Takashi brings the houses closer, including their context.
As a teacher, Kazunari Sakamoto has had a fundamental influence on the youngest generation of Tokyo architects.
He has been a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 1971, and his work has long been accompanied, among other things, by discussions about architecture with philosopher Koji Taki.
At the opening of the exhibition, Kazunari Sakamoto's student, architect Kunio Nakai, will present his teacher's projects.
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