I am making jewelry using minerals, old materials that passed the time.
That piece produced by Mother Earth is a condensation of thousands, tens of thousands of years time
I wear a part of the earth
The origins of jewelry as a magical way rather than as an organizing purpose
It started as an amulet that protects us from foreign enemies
It was later used as a symbol of authority around the world
From there it became a decorative item until the present age
It was to measure differentiation from others to dress up
How was the meaning of things originally born
It was because the relationship between things was meaningful
It seems that its relationship has diminished in this modern era
I want to regain that relationship again
I an making it with such feelings
Act of knitting
One braid knitting is time volume
Respect for possible minerals
I can put it in one braid
To shave stones
To make it look more beautiful
The strength seen in the roughness of the gemstone is also
The translucency which looks delicate as it seems to be broken
The existence which combines the properties of both polarities
Melt the gold and make the mold and put the stone
It will sometimes walk together the life
It is not gorgeous
It is like raising a cuddling feeling for that person’s daily life
I would like to keep making such things.
Having a place where people and objects are connected
I moved the residence to the countryside
Produce in a place surrounded by nature
To the gallery that remodeled the poultry house of 80 years and worked as a studio is a place where old things and new things mix
Modern values of discarding to destroy when it gets old
You can still use it if you add a little
There is the history of the former owner and there is beauty that added time
I’m deeply aware of Japan while traveling the world
Distinctive values such as rustling and lonely
Postwar Japan seeks economic development
It continued to pursue its culture and values as aiming for the United States and Europe
But as a result it is losing aesthetic sense of your country
Western religious views seeking one god
Difference in religious view of Japan that finds God everywhere in the nature of 8 million gods
Oriental and Western culture, values, view of religion, aesthetic sense etc.
We recognize the difference between them and hybridize in various ways
Old items of foreign countries in a country are arranged side by side
Made using materials such as earth, wood, iron, paper, cloth, glass, plants
A place to express works created throughout the life of the producer
As a place to connect people and people,
People and things, things and things
I will continue to learn interesting and learn from now
I seriously dream about a bright peaceful future
And I want to have a love and a passion
love & happy & peace & freedom
yasuhide ono
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We are pleased to present “Utsushiki” by Yasuhide Ono at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
Yasuhide Ono creates unique and beautiful jewelry combining various techniques using crystal and minerals.
The delicate ones, mainly minerals will connect the earth, the universe, and the sprit world here, contain what is to be worn by the ancient wisdom and what is intended to build the future and an obvious intention.
In addition, Ono made a space called “Utsushiki” in the village located between Fukuoka city and kita-kyusu.
It was dotted with works produced by Ono, old tools brought back from Japan and India, warm clothes of hands, proposing delicious food, Ono’s workshop, and the lives of his own family it depends on space, A space of “Utsushiki” appears together with Yasuhide Ono at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
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Exhibition period:
November 16 − November 25, 2018
*The artist will be attending on November 16, 17
Place:
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: November 15
Opening Reception:
Friday, November 16 / 5pm − 6pm
The performance of old instruments by Mirai Matsumoto and Maika of baobab in Oita prefecture.
Saori Tashiro “Utsusiki” Tea ceremony:
Friday, November 16 / 11:30am, 2pm
Saturday, November 17 / 11:30am, 2pm, 3:30pm, 5pm
Number of seats: 4 in each time / Reached the fixed number.
3,000 JPY
Apply in e-mail. Send your name, telephone number to the following address.
event@cosmicwonder.com
Yasuhide Ono
Born in 1985
Started the career of accessory making in the world wandering
Warmth of handmade without the same thing as one in the world, to convey the charm and history of natural stone, he make it with goal to be involved in everyday life of as many people as possible
From hand to hand, to that person’s special things
Saori Tashiro
Born in Shizuoka 1984
Emigrated to Miyawaka-shi, Fukuoka prefecture in 2014
atelier gallary”Utushiki” is start working on a personal activity at the same time
She is interested in spices and herbs
Ayurveda leaning at a hospital in SriLanka
Currently, Tea ceremonies with herbs held in various places
baobab
maika / Fiddle, Fidel, Vocal
Mirai Matsumoto / Guitar, Citol, Runessanse Guitar, Vocal
Expression of Old instrument, Modern instruments, Irish, Ancient music, Folk with free arrangement and style.
We are transmitting the air and the season moving through our days, the scenery and feeling we have found in the countryside life as.
The album made by independent production records a long seller in an indie scene.
Every summer, in the forest of Katerina, we organize the whole forest itself, sponsoring the music festival “Sing Bird Concert” which forcuses on the integration of the natural environment with people, music, art and living.
It collects a lot of sympathizers and it is the core of expressive communication from the area.
Tasmanian wool knit Nobaori Coat
Coat is reversible by a sewing machine and hand sewing.
This Tasmanian wool is a premium wool grown in an organic environment surrounded by primeval forests.
It has excellent ventilation and heat-retaining properties.
For the clothes of Winter’s elegant.
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: October 26
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Taking a cup of tea again, it seems to be an event of “Earth, Water, Leaves, Sun and Fire”, feeling fresh appeal to tea, I started to make teaware and tea pleasant tools and “Chaguma and subsequent forms and tools of tea”.
When I noticed, it seemed to me that there were a lot of clothing, food and dwelling “Earth, Water, Leaves, Sun and Fire”.
Among them, the role of fire and water is large, it is too wide to clean up with the word of natural material, it is natural, it feels difficult to see.
Therefore, I would like you to enjoy “Fire, Water and Plants”with tea and sweets during the exhibition.
Takashi Ichikawa
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Following “Chaguruma”* of the last year, we are pleased to present Takashi Ichikawa “Chaguruma and form afterword and Tools of Tea” exhibition at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
Ichikawa has completed making tea utensils “Chaguruma No.1” for taking out to fields and forests, and continues to produce tea-packed tools that are adapted to the various tea places now.
The background was the appearance of “Cha-rry” shaped like a trunk and “Cha-unter” which can play tea on river moistened the senses and heart of guests.
Mr. Ichikawa speaks of tea while feeling “Earth and Water, Leaves, Yang and Fire”.It may be in the pleasures of spreading consciousness heading there, discovering the connection to the universe in the space of tea and tea.
In addition, Ichikawa is doing the project of “Cha-yu-ki” to communicate the charm of tea with friends who love tea with the trip.
Ichikawa hold tea ceremonies in Sendai, Czech Republic, Guizhou, Jingdezhen, Sichuan, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, Xian, Wuyishan.
The record of a tea ceremony that is beautifully shaking in a magnificent journey thorough the connection of tea is published “Cha-yu-ki” in this year.
We will exhibit and sell the new tea tools in this exhibition.
On the first day of the exhibition, We will hold a tea ceremony “Fire and Water with Plants” by Ichikawa, Cooking artist of Nao Uekusa and Sound artist of MAMIUMU.
*Chaguruma: Mobile storing table for exclusive use of the tea
Exhibition period:
October 27 – November 4, 2018
*The artist will be attending on October 27 and 28
Place:
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: October 15, October 26
A tea ceremony “Fire and Water with Plants”
Date:
Saturday, October 27 / 11:30am, 2:30pm, 4pm, 5:30pm
Number of seats: 6 in each time / Reached the fixed number.
4,500 JPY
Apply in e-mail. Send your name, telephone number to the following address.
event@cosmicwonder.com
Nao Uekusa
Vegetable and Dry matter and Condiment. She mainly cook vegetable dish after feeling the season.
Food packed, Catering, and Cooking class. Live in Tokyo. Activity name is“Biwa”
MAMIUMU
A voice by its own utterance method. Performances using instruments and tools such as glass harp, Liar, Flute, Drum, Tree, Stone, Metallic ringing etc.
It appear the time and space of the sound, to become one and create.
It refers to the loss of an old friend very recently, someone that was very important for me, for my relationship to life in general and to poetry and literature. He used to publish magazines that were different from everything else, his fields were more life & politics. He had a big influence on many people in France. He died at 77 years old. His name was Michel Butel.
The title also refers to the world itself, that is disappearing. I am writing these lines in the Black Forest (in Germany), surrounded by green mountains, an astonishing landscape, but 30 km from here there is Fessenheim, a giant power plant, very old, that should have been closed long ago, according to many people this zone can become like Tchernobyl anytime now.
I also live 80 km from a power plant. Last year it had some leaks. Even though I try to live in harmony with the world I always think of the past and our future that I can only see very dark.
In a way I disappeared myself from a certain world, from my previous life and from Paris.
Elein Fleiss
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We are pleased to present “Disappearing”, by Elein Fleiss, a selection of her photographs alongside images and text from her archives.
A free-moving memory is constructed from a web of journals, accounts, and encounters. She recalls the words of her old friend Michel Butel:
“I considered the press/journalism, and I still do – I conceive that it is strange, and with years passing by even more strange, considering what the press became – at the same level of an artwork. I thought and still think that a magazine can be as beautiful as an artwork and be as important, for those who make it as well as those who read it, as art pieces or films…” *
Elein co-founded the magazine Purple, which she edited from the 1990s through the early 2000s, followed by The Purple Journal from 2003 to 2007. Currently living in a country town in the southwest of France, she continues her engagement with writing and photography.
For this exhibition, we are also pleased to announce “Autre Temps”, a collaboration between Elein Fleiss and COSMIC WONDER.
In recent years, Elein has turned her attention to collecting old clothes so an idea was born to have COSMIC WONDER’s Yukinori Maeda and Miyakono Yasuda reconfigure some of the pieces she found.
Sumi is made from the soot from burnt pine
The life of the tree passes into the ink
In Korea, the monk’s robe is dyed with Sumi
An attempt to bind the tree and the clothes with ink
Yukinori Maeda
*A conference at Salon de la Revue (periodical fair), 2007
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Elein Fleiss
Elein Fleiss was born in April 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She now lives in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val after leaving Paris ten years ago.
Since 1989 she has been organizing exhibitions, publishing magazines, directing some super-8 films, taking lots of photographs, writing texts…
Her photographs have been published in various magazines, in two books (One Star Press and Poetry of Sex), and have been exhibited in Japan as well as at the French Cultural Institutes of Turino and Milano, and, more recently, at the Happy Baby Gallery (Crissier, Switzerland) and at Etxe Nami (Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France).
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Exhibition period:
October 16 － October 25, 2018
“Autre Temps” Performance:
Tuesday, October 16 / 4pm − 5pm
*The collection of “Autre Temps” will be on sale from 5pm on October 16.
*These are all limited items.
Place:
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: October 15
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Elein Fleiss “Disappearing”
Proposal: Nakako Hayashi (Editor of here and there)
Production: Elein Fleiss, COSMIC WONDER
Cooperation: Nobuhiro Shimura (Contemporary Artist), Stephen Sprott
Organized by COSMIC WONDER
Red grapes herbal dyed pink Fork dress
Khadi collection of Autumn and Winter.
Hand-spun and hand-woven khadi cotton spread by Gandhi in India.
Sumi-dyed Sumikuro and Red grapes herbal dyed pink.
Folk shirt, Wrapped pants and Fork dress.
Khadi collection that incorporates mythical impressions and elements of folk costumes.
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: October 3, 15
Center for COSMIC WONDER Online Store
Naturally tanned leather shoulder pouch
Leather collection will be available at Center for COSMIC WONDER from September 29, Online Store from October 2.
Folk dress shoes, Third folk shoes, Shoulder pouch and bag, Tote bag, Document case bag, Wallet, Card case, Letter coin case etc.
Color is Black and Brown of Natural tanned leather, light gray of new color.
A beautifully daily life, leather collection will be available.
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: October 3
Center for COSMIC WONDER Online Store
Heavy rain at last year,
Water accumulated the top of the chimney and it was damaged so i remade it.
As the shape of the chimney became smart,
The whole firing has changed considerably.
About 3 days of firing,
A fire rising on the top of the chimney and the moon in the sky were in line.
And then the wind blew and it began to a light rain.
“Is it raining in blessings?”
The feelings of the people who participated in the operation of nature and firing,
It was a moment when it became one.
Naoto Ishii
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We are pleased to present Naoto Ishii’s new work “Kiln and moon” at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
He reclaimed the wilderness of the mountain foot of Kyotanba from 1992, and following year he build a his house and studio “Dokkatouyu” “Kaigenken”.
He create unique peculiarities with beauty and intelligence that connects contemporary times from ancient times and reaches the present.
We will start selling the new work which was fired in 2018.
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Naoto Ishii
1954 Born in Kyoto
1980 Graduated from the Faculty of Integrated Arts, Hiroshima Univ.
1981-83 Agriculture living in Kosaka, Tokawachi cho, Yamagata, Hiroshima prefecture
1984-87 Training at “Doraku-toen” Iga, Mie prefecture
1992 Start cultivating the wildfield in Kyoutanba-cho
1993 Construction of the studio “Dokkatouyu” and “Kaigenken”
1994 Build a climbing kiln, Old private house relocation, Kiln firing on first time
We will take a rest from the village work while the plum blossoms flower
The beauty and strength of the trees and plants as they mature towards harvest
Having finished our preparations, we decide to spend the winter in the house
Wrapped in white koromo – A visionary ancient mountain village life
Silk Kokei koromo, Haori for mountain hiking,
Linen koromo for winter and Sumi-dyed koromo, Feather koromo,
Kahdi hand-spun cotton is grape-dyed workwear
From mountain village life
Koromo emerge from Autumn to Winter
Release Cosmic Wonder
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We are pleased to present “A dream vision of mountain village life” exhibition.
Tapestry of “A dream vision mountain village pattern” patchworked with old hemp and Sumi-dyed ramie, “A dream vision of mountain village life kamikoromo” which was produced for the cover installation of new issue “here and there vol.13 HYACINTH REVOLUTION” will be exhibited.
From New collection:
Khadi fork dress and pants, Silk cotton round sleeves pullover shirt, twisted scarf dress and Haori jacket,
Cashmere knit v-necked sphere sweater and v-necked accessary parts.
Season color are green grapes herbal dyed ancient white, red grapes herbal dyed pink, Sumi-dyed gray, vivid pink, precious Ryukyu indigo grown on Okinawa island etc.
Exhibition period:
September 15 − October 14, 2018
Opening reception:
Saturday, September 15 / 4pm − 6pm
Place:
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: September 10 − 14
Sumi-dyed gray organic cotton crew neck waist-gathered dress
Organic cotton collection will be available at Center for COSMIC WONDER from September 1, Online Store from September 4.
Sumi-dyed gray, Red grapes herbal dyed pink, precious Ryukyu indigo grown on Okinawa island etc.
Organic cotton collection of beautiful colors.
Basic wrapped dress and wrapped pants, Sphere dress, Box tack gather dress with cape, Crew neck waist-gathered dress,
Overlapped collar long sleeves pullover, Long-sleeved shirt dress etc.
“A dream vision of mountain village life”’s collection symbolized items will be available.
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: September 5, September 10 − 14
Center for COSMIC WONDER Online Store
Grapes herbal dyed ancient white Silk cotton twisted scarf dress
COSMIC WONDER 2018 A/W “A dream vision of mountain village life” new collections will be available at Center for COSMIC WONDER from August 18, Online Store from 21 August.
LOOKBOOK
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Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: August 14 − August 17
Center for COSMIC WONDER Online Store
We will take a rest from the village work while the plum blossoms flower
The beauty and strength of the trees and plants as they mature towards harvest
Having finished our preparations, we decide to spend the winter in the house
Wrapped in white koromo – A visionary ancient mountain village life
Silk Kokei koromo, Haori for mountain hiking,
Linen koromo for winter and Sumi-dyed koromo, Feather koromo,
Kahdi hand-spun cotton is grape-dyed workwear
From mountain village life
Koromo emerge from Autumn to Winter
Release Cosmic Wonder
LOOKBOOK
Photography by Ai Nakagawa
Hair and Makeup: Akiko Gamou
Model: Minami Ooba (Actress), Ayami Yamada (Hair and makeup Artist), Yotaro Kachi (Musician), Masaho Anotani (Artist)
New light
Lots of stars gathering
Playing the sound of light
Joy of the star pillars spectacle
We are pleased to present “A gathering of Stardust ” by Feminyan and Hoshi-no-bouzu.
The theme is “ Life as a blessing from the universe, each living in harmony with nature, living as a star, spinning the story”
Until that day, the energy and vision received by bringing the date closer can be further enhanced,
Will you let us hear the sound of the story born from there?
On this day, We will perform a primitive performance by art sound unit “Jue and Anoa”.
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Hoshi-no-bouzu
Hoshi-no-bouzu write stories from the star’s voices, while farming in Saku, Nagano Prefecture.
Feminyan
Feminyan uses western astrology, oriental four pillars of destiny and feng shui to understand the resonance
with stars and nature, read through each person’s life drawing.
Jue and Anoa
Art sound unit of MAMIUMU (sound artist) and Yukinori Maeda (Contemporary artist and Founder of Cosmic Wonder).
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Date:
Saturday, August 25, 2018
10am − 12pm
Number of seats:
40 / Reached the fixed number
3,500 JPY (with wildflower tea)
*Please bring rugs and cushions.
Place:
Center for COSMIC WONDER
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
Temporary closed 1 − 7 August, 14 − 17 August
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