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Artist's Reception: Friday, July 29, 5 - 7 pm
Artist Demonstration: Saturday, July 30, 2 - 3:30 pm

TAI Modern is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition by Kawano Shoko. This will be the artist's first solo show with TAI Modern.

"The perfect marriage of traditional and contemporary; craftsmanship and sculpture; the past and the future," is how 2002 Cotsen Bamboo Prize Judge, Bruce Pepich, director of the Racine Art Museum, described Kawano Shoko's work. A master of open twill plaiting, Kawano creates intricate and elegant bamboo vessels. Seemingly one shape at first glance, the vessels subtly shift from one simple geometric shape to another. Suddenly a rectangular box becomes a globe; complicated and intricate details appear upon closer inspection.

Kawano's masterful spacing of the bamboo lends itself to making his vessels appear both transparent and solid. Lacelike weavings carry a whole new vocabulary of shape, color, space and texture, and the emotion and temperament of the artist. Kawano does not use any measuring tools, instead each strip of perfectly placed bamboo is positioned by hand, relying only on his own senses.