To be precise, what I design is time, air and light. A good lighting fixture is the closest thing to a bare bulb or light itself, so in my design, tangible and shaped lighting fixtures disappear and only light itself appears in the end.
——Tokujin YoshiokaTokujin Yoshioka is a Japanese designer active in the fields of design, architecture, and modern art, and has won several international awards. museums in the world. He was selected by Newsweek as one of the "100 Japanese People the World Respects".
Born in Saga Prefecture in 1967, Tokujin Yoshioka set his sights on becoming a designer at a young age, inspired by the traditional craftsmanship and folklore of the region, and in 1983 he entered the Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo to study interior and industrial design. Here he met his mentor, Shiro Kuramata, a Japanese design master.
After graduating in 1986, Tokujin Yoshioka joined Shiro Kuramata's office, and in 1988, on the recommendation of his mentor, he moved to the office of another Japanese design master, Issey Miyake. Although Tokujin Yoshioka had no experience in fashion design at the time, he had an innate sense of balance, movement, feeling, and emotion in the human body.
"If my work represents the light, I am its shadow" - Tokujin Yoshioka
Tokujin Yoshioka is not only an internationally renowned designer, but also an artist with a very personal style. Some people often wonder why he is always dressed in black, but Yoshioka says, "My work represents the light, and I am the shadow of my own work. He always works tirelessly to create a world of "light" in his works, using as little color as possible, but more transparency or white, in order to highlight as much light as possible. It is probably because of the unique Japanese soil that Yoshioka's unique beauty of simplicity is nurtured, and many of his works resemble the white space in landscape painting, where the relationship between time and space is invisibly established. And the photo of him with the work is like the relationship between them, where reality and emptiness are combined, and the shadow controls everything, yet disappears in it at the same time.
*Tokujin Yoshioka and the giant art installation "Gate"
Yoshioka says, "Transparent materials are on the one hand "invisible" and on the other hand variable, revealing and changing with the light, a very deep existence." In his works, light and material subtly interact with each other to create a magical sense of volume with minimal material, thus maximizing the multi-sensory stimulation effect; the concepts of light and transparency always achieve the most ideal form in his hands, presenting a combination of logic and beauty, everything comes so naturally but unprecedentedly profoundly, directly to the heart!
*Rainbow Church
When he was in his early 20s, Yoshioka visited the Roselle Church in Venice and was so impressed by the spatial design of the church that he has dreamed of designing a building that would allow all the senses to experience light ever since. Later, he built an 8-meter-high crystal wall with 500 crystal prisms, and filled the space with colored light scattered by the Mitsubishi mirrors to create this amazing "rainbow church". He made the design shine into the heart and let each beam of light reflect brilliant colors, like a rainbow left from the sky, making people feel like they are in heaven, receiving the baptism of holy light.
*Rainbow Church
In addition to the clever use of "light" and "material" to capture the hearts of the world, "thinness" and "transparency" are also the key elements of Yoshioka's He has always used "thinness" and "transparency" as an important medium for communication and self-expression with the outside world. By interpreting "thinness" and "transparency," he always integrates an individual object into a whole, and the materials used express their own integrity in the simplest and most direct formal language. These elements are also consistently present in his display design. The integrity of the space is conveyed to the visitor with authenticity and accuracy through the tactile properties characteristic of the display. Whether it is an object, an installation or an improvisation, Tokujin Yoshioka's key inspiration is always how the act of his design is expressed and felt. In his own words, he always strives to reach the "zero point of design".
*Works by Tokujin Yoshioka
Tokujin Yoshioka said, "Time, like light, wind, scent and air, we cannot see or capture it, but its beautiful rhythm accompanies our lives every day." It is his subtle interpretation of time that has earned him global fame as "the most original design of the century". He took paper fibers as the material and used stacks of cellophane to create a huge honeycomb of time, making time reside in each nest, waiting for those vivid beings who are about to touch it, sitting and lying down for a moment, leaving their marks on the fibers. The ingenious combination of fiber and time, together recording the traces of life, gave birth to the world's sensational "honeycomb chair" HONEY-POP.
*HONEY-POP" honeycomb chair
"I think there are usually two points of interest related to time: one is history and the other is the future. They are both very important elements, but both history and the future are something that one cannot feel and experience." Through his designs, Tokujin Yoshioka hopes to express his vision of the future. "History happens in the past, but at the same time history creates an unknowable future, and I think I can convey the stories and memories that lurk behind each of them and the imagination that comes from them through the concept of "fragments." To this end, he designed a special perfume bottle called Moon Fragment, which contains a jewel that shines with a transparent glow similar to moonlight.
*Moon Fragment Perfume Bottle
In the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai's "Eternity in a Flash" exhibition of Cartier's time art, his latest giant installation, "The Door", also features 150,000 transparent fibers poetically assembled to symbolize the passage from the "past" to the "future". His latest giant installation, "The Door", also features 150,000 transparent fibers poetically assembled to create a "time tunnel" that symbolizes the passage from the "past" to the "future", and his interpretation of the history and future of time between light and shadow.
*Cartier Time Art Exhibition's giant art installation "The Door"
The initial attraction was a fantastic installation, "PRISMATIC CLOUD". Displayed above its 9-meter-high lobby, the installation, created by Tokujin Yoshioka for the Allen Center in Houston, USA, uses 3,540 barely visible cables to suspend 17,700 stacked colorless acrylic rods, reminiscent of the structure of a cloud.
"This is a sculptural work made of light that gives humans a more diverse spiritual perception through the use of material elements. "He said so himself. Each of the resin rods that make up "Prismatic Cloud" is prismatic, designed to ensure that they capture and reflect light during the day. And at night, with artificial lighting, the installation appears to be a floating cloud, both dreamy and light.
Not only this work, but also Tokujin Yoshioka's works make extensive use of white and transparent materials. In addition to the dreamy feeling it brings visually, white means spirit, space and reflection in the Eastern world. The exhibition entitled "Crystallize" at the MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is a full manifestation of his personal characteristics.
Inspired by the musical rhythm of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece "Swan Lake", the entire exhibition hall is composed of sculptures and installations made of crystals, which present a unique beauty in light and space.
Compared to the slightly monotonous works in "Prismatic Cloud", Tokujin Yoshioka has created a lot of artworks in this exhibition by focusing on the keyword of "crystals", some of which resemble the white porcelain feathers of a swan without any impurities, while others make Some of the works are like the white porcelain feathers of a swan, without any impurities, while others make the viewer feel the quiet scene of a forest or a lake in winter, making people unconsciously unable to distinguish reality from dreams.
Tokujin Yoshioka is regarded as one of the world's most influential creators, and his highly experimental and creative works have gained wide acclaim for crossing the boundaries of art, design and architecture. In his works, Tokujin Yoshioka cleverly utilizes a high degree of fusion of natural light and white, and explores the distinctive sensory impact of natural light through continuous research and experimentation based on his concern for the relationship between people and nature.
Using "light" as an immaterial element to give images to human senses - this is Tokujin Yoshioka's perfect vision of a dream world.
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