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Temporary Exhibition
Remnants of Light
Recent Works by Sachi Fujikake
The Nagoya-based Japanese artist presents Vestiges of Light, 10 glassworks from 2018 to 2021.
SACHI FUJIKAKE 藤掛幸智
“To change an inanimate material into something soft, and to capture its transformation in form. I wish to stop the hands of time and enjoy the beauty that unfolds before me.”
About the Artist
New ideas will flow into oceans of unforeseen beauty. Likewise, the works of Sachi Fujikake (b. 1985 –) boldly defy and transcend the qualities of glass to realms unchartered, warping the material into ripples in time and space, tearing at its very fabric to melt it into Dali-esque objects, surreal yet finite, completely original yet utterly eternal in its rippling majesty. Entitled Vestige, her works capture the remains of what is left behind, the beauty of glass as it turns from a hard material into something soft, in many ways capturing the preciousness of time itself as its continuum is bent, twisted, and expanded into forms formerly unfathomable.
The young Fujikake is quickly garnering a following within the world of glass and has already been collected by the Alexander Tutsek Foundation in Germany, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Institute, Koganezaki Crystal Park, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2015. Organic and free-flowing, crumpled yet inflated, and translucently, lusciously radiant, Fujikake’s works are mesmerizing odes to an innovative new style of abstraction in the glass. The vestiges of light embraced herein.
About the Work
Fujikake first takes individual sheets of white-colored glass of 2 different gradations and sandblasts dotted perforations onto their surfaces after fusing the sheets together in a glory hole, thereby deepening the holes to heighten and accentuate the shadows that form on her glass surfaces. After this initial process, Fujikake further attaches 6 sheets within her glory hole to form an essentially rectangular shape. After this basic form is created, Fujikake incredibly begins to blow the melting glass, thereby helping to warp and expand the glass in a bubble-like form. Such voluptuous and seemingly impossible curvatures cannot be achieved by the use of sheet glass alone, and it is the combination of various glass techniques – kiln-working, sandblasting and blowing glass, that eloquently transforms her material into an entirely new style of glass for the 21st century.
1985
Born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
2006
Aichi University of Education, MFA
2011
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop / Lives and works in Nagoya
Selected Awards
2006
Forever Foundation, Overseas study scholarship
2009
Pilchuck Glass School Lino Tagliapietra scholarship
2010
NHK Kanazawa Director Award, 24th Ishikawa Contemporary Craft Exhibition
Chairman Award, Kanazawa Lacquer Trade Cooperation, Ishikawa Prefectural Design Exhibition
2011
Award of Excellence, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
2012
Award of Excellence, Takaoka Craft Exhibition
Encouragement Award, KOGANEZAKI Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition
Award of Excellence, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
New Glass Review 33 (’13)
Jury Award, Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Sanyo Onoda
2013
Honorable Mention, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa
2016
Gold Prize, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa
2017
Selected, Young Glass
2018
Gold Prize, Toyama International Glass Exhibition
Selected, Sanyo Onoda Contemporary Glass Exhibition
2019
Finalist, LOEWE Craft Prize
Jury Prize, KOGEI World Competition in Kanazawa
Selected Exhibitions
2006
Inspire Your Heart Exhibition, Coco Laboratory, Akita, Japan
2007
Duet Gallery APA, Aichi, Japan (’08, ’09, ’10, ’12)
December Show, Gallery APA, Aichi, Japan
26th Asahi Craft Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2008
47th Japan Craft Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (’10)
2010
Forming Rainbows, Galerie Steine, Nagano, Japan
Forms of Tomorrow, Gallery Sou, Kanazawa, Japan
31 Sensibilities – Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop Exhibition, Japan
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (’11, ’12)
2011
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan
VARIA Nagoya Art Fair, Nagoya, Japan
2012
Takaoka Craft Exhibition, Toyama, Japan
KOGANEZAKI – Vessel Forms – Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Shizuoka, Japan
Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Sanyo Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
HEART to HEART Craft Art Exhibition, Fukui, Japan
Art Fair Nagoya, Japan
2013
TARENTE, Germany
Transfiguration of Glass II, Gallery VOICE, Gifu, Japan
The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Art, Ishikawa, Japan
2014
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (’15)
Art Miami, USA (’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19)
2015
Vestige – Sachi Fujikake Solo Exhibition, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Stage Singapore, Singapore (’16, ’17)
2016
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands (’17, ’18, ’19, ’20, ’21)
Spring Masters New York, USA
EAF Monaco, Monaco
Art Taipei, Taiwan
2017
TEFAF New York Spring, USA
Group Exhibition – life-world, Alexander Tutsek, Munich, Germany
Group Exhibition – Young Glass, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark
Vestige II – New Glass Works by Sachi Fujikake, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Seattle Art Fair, USA (’19)
Toyama International Glass Exhibition, Japan
2019
Group Exhibition, LOEWE Craft Prize, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition, KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
NEW GLASS NOW, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
Silhouettes of Tomorrow, Yufuku Gallery, London, UK
2020
Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Vestige III, Solo Exhibition of New Work, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan
Public Collections
Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Germany / Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Japan / Koganezaki Crystal Park, Japan / Victoria & Albert Museum, UK / Glasmuseum Lette, Germany / Toyama Glass Museum, Japan / Corning Museum of Glass, USA
Vestige III – Sachi Fujikake Solo Exhibition
New ideas will flow into oceans of unforeseen beauty. Likewise, the works of Sachi Fujikake (1985- ) boldly defy the traditional qualities of glass toward realms unchartered, transforming the material into ripples in both time and space. Entitled Vestige, her glass sculptures capture the remains of what is left behind, the beauty of glass as it is fundamentally changed from a hard material into something soft, in many ways capturing the preciousness of time itself as its continuum is bent, twisted, and expanded into surrealistic forms of great beauty. Organic and free-flowing, crumpled yet inflated, while imbued with a translucently luscious radiance, Fujikake’s works are spellbinding poems to an innovative new style of abstraction in the glass.
After sandblasting her trademark dots onto the surfaces of her layered sheets of white glass, Fujikake further melts and connects 6 separate glass sheets together within a glory hole to comprise an essentially three-dimensional polygon. After this basic form is created, Fujikake then begins to blow air into the cube, thereby helping to warp, inflate and transform the rigid glass into something soft and fluid. Such voluptuously seductive curvatures cannot be achieved by the use of sheet glass alone, and it is the aforementioned ingenious and wildly original combination of various glass techniques – kiln-working, sand-blasting, and blowing glass, that has made Sachi Fujikake one of the frontrunners of an entirely new way of approaching the realm of glass art in the 21st century.
Wahei Aoyama, A Lighthouse called Kanata
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