Arare Technique

Arare means hail. It’s a technique that consists of small ball-shaped points in regular rows on the surface of both small and large pieces of various metals. In my arare-objects the small hails give a delightful play of light and shadow on the white silver.

あられ

あられとは、金属の表面に鏨を使って規則正しく突起物を打ち出したものです。私の作品では、ひとつひとつのあられが一体となって光と影の不思議なバランスを生み出します。そしてテクニックを形と大きさを問わず金属の上に表現します。

(Photo by Jesper Palm)

Hammer's Dance

Every sound in the rhythm of my “hammer’s dance” I feel in the whole of my body and enjoy within my soul. My wish is to unite the traditional Japanese technique with formidable Danish design so that I may develop my own unique work.

私のハンマーダンス

鎚と金属の奏でる一つ一つの音とリズムを確かめながら、私はいつも全身で、その『鎚の舞い』を心から楽しみます。私は日本の伝統的な工芸技術と素晴らしいデンマークのデザインとの融合を求めて、私の作品を創りたいと思っています。

(Photo by Anders Bøggild)

About Yuki

Throughout my life in Denmark and in Danish culture, I see Japan through a Danish filter.
I want to sense these vastly different cultures and allow them to re arrange naturally and be expressed.
My inspiration always comes from nature, expressed through the Fibonacci spiral systematic.

With my hammer, with its small bumps I form a plate of silver; this solid piece gets a floating look simultaneously with flexibility. It has durability, weight, light, reflection, contrast, and silver’s unique brilliance. Silver’s gloss is hot and cold simultaneously, it is this gloss and disposition that is the charm of working with silver.
With a fusion of traditional Japanese artisan technique Arare and Danish modern design in mind, I want to create my works.
I enjoy every stroke and every blade is followed by step with the foot.
Every sound of the rhythm of “my hammer’s dance” I feel n the whole of my body and enjoy within my soul.
This is work that never suffers from fatigue.

(Photo by Martin Mydtskov Rønne)

Biography

2002 – 06, 2014 Working at Georg Jensen silversmith, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998 Studies in Japan, October and November

1997 – 99 The Institute for Precious Metals at the Goldsmith High School, Copenhagen, Denmark

1988 – 89 The Institute for Precious Metals at the Goldsmith High School, Copenhagen, Denmark

1982 – 87 Works at Kanazawa Industrial Art, Kyoto, Japan

1981 – 82, 1993 – 97 Undertakes a year of studies at Tsuibu Metal Art School, Kyoto, Japan

1979 Passes exams at Saga Junior College, Appointed at Juraku Kimono Company as Designer, Kyoto, Japan

1977 – 79 Studies at SAGA JUNIOR COLLEGE OF ART, Kyoto, Japan

EXHIBITIONS

2024 TEFAF New York. USA

2024 FOG DESIGN + ART, San Francisco. USA

2023 ART FAIR “ Salon Art + Design Art 2023 “ New York. USA

2023 TEFAF New York. USA

2023 “ Jewellry and metal works 2023 “ Galerie Handwerk, Munich. Germany

2023 FOG DESIGN + ART, San Francisco. USA

2022 “möten” Galleri Sebastian Schildt, Stockholm. Sweden

2022 TEFAF New York, New York. USA

2022 FOG Design + Art, San Francisco. USA

2021 ART FAIR “Salon Art + Design 2021” Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA

2021 “ Matter at Hand “ HOSTLER BURROWS. New York, Los Angeles. USA

2021 “ JAPANSK DESIGN FESTIVAL 2021” KOSMOPOL. Copenhagen. Denmark

2021 “ PAN “ AMSTERDAM. RAI Amsterdam. The Netherlands

2020 “JAPANSK DESIGN FESTIVAL 2020” Seidokan Japan Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020 Art – Union ” 14/8 “, Gallery A.Petersen. Copenhagen, Denmark

2020 HAMMERCLUB, Schoonhoven, The Netherlands

2019 “PAN” AMSTERDAM. RAI Amsterdam. The Netherlands

2019 Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019 “GODT KUNSTHÅNDVÆRK” Roskilde Kunstforening, Denmark

2019 HAMMERCLUB, 2nd Prize. Dundee, Scotland

2018 “Different but Same”, Koldinghus Museum, Kolding, Denmark

2018 “Modern Masters”, Handwerk & Design, Munich, Germany

2018 “Afterparty” Institute of Precious Metals, The Round tower, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018 “Japan Retur”, Danish Arts Foundation at Gallery A. Petersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018 “Pouring Pots”, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, Germany

2018 “Dots, Circles and Sphere”, Gallerie HANDWERK, Munich, Germany

2018 TEFAF, Gallery Adrian Sassoon, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2018 HAMMERCLUB, Hanau, Germany

2017 TEFAF, Gallery Adrian Sassoon, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2017 “NOMAD”, Gallery FUMI, Monaco, France

2017 “My Hammer´s Dance” Solo Exhibition Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017 “MINDCRAFT17” Milan Design week, Danish Arts Foundation, Milan, Italy

2017 “Forged” Gallerie HANDWERK, Munich, Germany

2017 Pavilion of Art and Design, Gallery FUMI, London, England

2017 HAMMERCLUB, Pforzheim, Germany

2016 “MINDCRAFT16” Design week, Danish Arts Foundation. Milan, Italy

2016 “Masterpiece”, Gallery Adrian Sassoon, London, England

2016 TEFAF, Gallery Adrian Sassoon, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2016 Pavilion of Art and Design, Gallery Adrian Sassoon, London, England

2016 Gallery FUMI, at Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy

2016 Danish Silversmiths 40-Years anniversary Exhibition, Denmark

2016 18th Silber Triennial, Hanau, Germany

2015 Winner of The Schoonhofen Silver Award, The Netherlands

2015 “Same but not the Same” Galleri Sebastian Schildt+, Sweden

2015 Collect, Galleri Sebastian Schildt+, Saatchi Gallery, London, England

2014 HAMMERCLUB, 3^rd Prize, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

2014 “Hammered”, Koldinghus Museum, Kolding, Denmark

2013 HAMMERCLUB, “Midsummer Night”, 1^st Prize, The Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway

2013 17th Silber Triennial, Hanau, Germany

2013 “Highlights” Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013 “Festival of Silver”, The Goldsmiths´ Centre, London, England

2012 Solo exhibition at Koldinghus Museum, Kolding, Denmark

2012 Craft Embracing the World., Korean Craft Museum, Korea

2012 “Water and Bread”. Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen, Denmark

2012 “Arare” Soloexhibition at LOD, Stockholm, Sweden

2011 ”Arare” Solo Exhibition, Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011 “Lækkerier” Grønbechs Gård, Bornholm, Denmark

2011 “Dedikeret Sølv” Museum at Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark

2010 HAMMERCLUB, Objects of Light Danish Design Museum, 1st Prize, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010 “Silver” Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009 Collect, Galleri MONTAN, Saatchi Gallery, London, England

2009 “Take Away” Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009 “Kander” Galleri MONTAN, Copenhagen

2009 “Bordets ægte glæder” Museum at Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark

2008 “Skattejagt” Danish Design Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007 Solo exhibition at the Japanese embassy’s Culturecenter, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007 Invited to hold a solo exhibition at Gallery SEIKADO, Kyoto, Japan

2007 “Kunsthåndværkerprisen at 1879” Art and Craft prize of 1879. Silver medal, Denmark

2007 “FUNC ART” Gallery Drud & Køppe. Copenhagen, Denmark

2005 Exhibition “Japan/Denmark, Art and Craft”, Dronninglund, Denmark

2005 ”Kunsthåndværkerprisen af 1879” Danish Design Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004 ”Fannys venner” group exhibition, Norway

2004 ”Fannys venner” group exhibition, gallery OFFICINET, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003 Solo exhibition, The Japanese embassy’s Culturecenter, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003 Art-union “14 / 8”, Danish Design Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002 Gallery Raft, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Exhibition at GUG group, Aalborg, Denmark

2001 The 2nd Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Silver Medal, Cheongju, Korea.

2000 Gallery YAMAMOTO, Kyoto, Japan

2000 Afgangsudstilling fra Institut for Ædelmetal, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999 Solo exhibition: The Booktrader, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999 Gallery Paruko, Osaka, Japan

1999 Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark

1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 Gallery CREER, Kyoto, Japan

1996 & 1997 Gallery Tobei, Kyoto, Japan

PRIZES

2019 STATENS KUNSTFOND PRÆMIERING / AWARDS, ” DIFFERENT BUT SAME ” at Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark

2015 Winner of The Schoonhoven Silver Award, The Netherlands

2014 3rd Prize, HAMMARCLUB 2014, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

2013 Best of the Year, HAMMERCLUB 2013, Trondheim, Norway

2012 Karl Gustav Hansen Prize, “Silversmith of the Year”, Denmark

2010 Best of the Year, HAMMERCLUB 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005 ”Kunsthåndværkerprisen af 1879” Art and Craft prize of 1879, Bronze Medal

2001 The 2nd Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea. Silver Medal

SOLD TO

2024 Victoria and Albert Museum London, England

2015 The National Museum Stockholm, Sweden

2013 Nordenfjeldske Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway

2011, 2012 The Silver Museum at Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark

2011 The Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009 Danish Design Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Represented in private collections in Denmark and abroad.

FEATURED IN

Wallpaper, Christie´s Magazine, TL Magazine, Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

The Ole Haslund’s Artist Grant

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