2013
TAIPEI 101
Exhibition · Taipei
Shibuki Takakura / 大下倉和彦
Shibuki
Takakura
EXPLORING THE INNER LANDSCAPEA form emerging between intention and chance.
PAINTINGS · COMMISSIONS · EXHIBITIONSSCROLL TO DISCOVER ↓
Where does form arise?
We each see the world while preserving the outlines of who we are.
Yet through encounters and relationships, there are moments when those boundaries softly shift.
SHIBUKI ART does not begin by deciding a form. Form emerges through the convergence of people, space and time.
The same is true when viewing it. Rather than understanding, something in the way we feel quietly begins to move.
What remains is the memory of our own perception having changed.
01 / THE ARTIST
Rooted in dye.
Beyond the canvas.
Raised in Tango’s textile tradition, Shibuki Takakura (Kazuhiko Takakura) brings the bodily discipline of kendo into art. His paintings translate colours of light perceived in nature and the cosmos into a practice rooted in Japanese craft and open to the world.
MEET TAKAKURA ↗02 / AVAILABLE WORKS
Find the work that stays with you.
ARTREF. 01 ↗
nosce te ipsum ～汝自身を知れ～
120 × 88 cm ／ Silk satin ／ 2021
我が魂は何処向かう
想うがままが息づく先
叶うせいは星のかず
正解なんて欲しがらず
我と思わん者ならば
汝自身が向かう先
ARTREF. 02 ↗
To the next stage
52 × 42 cm ／ Double-woven silk ／ 2019
ARTREF. 03 ↗
SOURCE
92 × 103 cm ／ Textured silk weave ／ 2018
03 / FOR GALLERIES & CURATORS
A new conversation.
A new audience.
For galleries, curators and agents: enquiries about exhibitions, representation and available works are welcome. Share your gallery, location and proposal.
EXHIBITIONS & REPRESENTATION↗SELECTED MILESTONES
A practice across borders.
2015
Affordable Art Fair
Art fair · Singapore
2021
nosce te ipsum
Art-book launch exhibition · Kyoto
2022
IAC / SAKURA COLLECTION
Performances · Paris & New York
04 / WEAR
Expression doesn’t have
to stay on a wall.
On stage and in everyday life, SHIBUKI moves with the person who carries it. Clothing and objects become individual, living surfaces for expression.
EXPLORE WEAR & COSTUME↗
FILM / SHIBUKI TAKAKURA
Meet the artist.
See the process.
BEYOND THE CANVAS
Anything can
become a canvas.
A vehicle, an object, a space. Scale and material change; the singular gesture remains.
EXPANDING THE PRACTICE
Beyond the painting.
Costume, space and shared moments of creation. Explore other dimensions of Shibuki Takakura’s practice.
EXPLORE THE PRACTICE↗