ARCHIVE
The Mind Landscape
- Dates
- 27 July – 13 October 2024
- Hours
- 10:30–18:00
(Admissions close 15 minutes prior to closing time)
Closed on public holidays.
- Admissions
- Free
- Venue
- HOSOO GALLERY
(HOSOO FLAGSHIP STORE 2F, 412 Kakimoto-cho Nakagyo-ku Kyoto 604-8173)
- Tel
- +81 75 221 8888
We are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition titled “The Mind Landscape” at HOSOO GALLERY.
The exhibition introduces The Mind Landscape, the collection of HOSOO’s new textiles first presented at Milan Design Week in April 2024. The collection, whose title signifies the scenery in our mind’s eye, was created through a collaboration between AMDL CIRCLE, a studio led by renowned Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, and HOSOO.
The new textile collection combines micro and macro perspectives on nature and reconstructs them into textiles. In particular, trees are an essential motif of nature. They grow by sucking up water from the ground, their flowers produce nectar for insects and birds, their fruits nourish animals, and their fallen leaves enrich the soil. In other words, they are a pillar of the ecosystem that supports the cycle of life. On the other hand, trees have been used as materials for various human creative activities, including crafts and architecture. The Mind Landscape collection combines enlarged and satellite photos of trees and is developed from four motifs. These fused multilayered perspectives also resonate with the gaze of craftsmen who determine the intrinsic beauty of trees as materials. Furthermore, the collection depicts new mind landscapes by composing them into natural fiber textiles through the craftsmen’s creativity.
The exhibition showcases the new textiles, as well as objects and photographs that inspired the creative process, and introduces selected books on trees, nature, and the environment related to the collection. The Mind Landscape collection creates new natural beauty from the tree motif to reinterpret trees’ intricate appearances and roles through diverse perspectives and the richness of natural cycles.
Organizer: HOSOO Co., Ltd.
Exhibition concept: AMDL CIRCLE
Scenography: SUO
Sound design: Tadashi Kondo
Research and book selection: Rurihiko Hara
Exhibition collaborator: Kumiko Idaka
Director: Masataka Hosoo
Photography: Kotaro Tanaka
Promotional art: Akihiro Morita
PROFILE
AMDL CIRCLE
AMDL CIRCLE is a multifaceted studio that was founded by Michele De Lucchi. Internationally renowned for its humanistic approach, it works across many sectors providing its clients with expressive and strategic projects that embrace architecture, interiors, products and graphics. AMDL CIRCLE’s team of architects, designers and craftspeople have worked on projects for public and private organisations, collaborating with large corporations such as Intesa Sanpaolo, Deutsche Bank and UniCredit, and designing buildings and exhibition systems for Neues Museum in Berlin and Gallerie d’Italia in Milan, Turin and Naples. The Milan based studio has also designed spaces, products and furniture for Alessi, Artemide, Cassina, Hermès, Poltrona Frau and UniFor.
Michele De Lucchi
Born in Italy in 1951, Michele De Lucchi is known as a leading member of the avant-garde designer collective “Memphis.” He has designed furniture for famous European companies and served as design director for Olivetti from 1988 to 2002. He has realized numerous architectural projects for public institutions, private companies, museums, and cultural facilities in Italy and abroad. In 2000, he was appointed Officer of the Italian Republic.
In 2001 he has been nominated Professor at the IUAV in Venice. In 2006 he received the Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University. In 2008 he has been nominated Professor at the Design Faculty of the Politecnico of Milan and Member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome. During 2018 Michele De Lucchi was Guest Editor of the new “Domus” magazine. In 2022 he was honoured with the Compasso d’Oro Career Award. In 2024, he was appointed academician at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.He is the founder of AMDL CIRCLE and continues to work as a member.
HOSOO Co., Ltd.
Hosoo was founded in 1688 in Nishijin in Kyoto as a weaver purveying to prominent temples. Nishijin textile, Kyoto’s pre-dyed yarn textile, has been nurtured since 1200 years ago with the support of imperial nobles, the samurai class, and wealthy merchants. Today, Hosoo combines traditional Nishijin textile techniques for Obi and kimono that it has inherited with innovative techniques and a timeless design sensibility to create one-of-a-kind textiles and offer them to the luxury markets in Japan and abroad.