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Press Kit | no. 3767-03

Press release only in English

"Into the Space": An Installation Art Space That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award

Tokyo, Japan

NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS

Yokohama, Japan, 2024-01-04 - 

NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS proudly presents 'Into the Space', an installation art space focused on expressions of Japanese beauty.


Japanese dance performances were held at this location and, both before and after the performances, audiences were invited on stage to actually experience the installation.

In "Sakuteiki - Visions of the Japanese Garden" written in the Heian period (794-1185), it is said that the creation of space begins with "setting a stone," that is to say by placing an object in an empty space. Also, Ikenobo Sen'o, a master of Japanese flower arranging in the early modern period, once said: "With a spray of flowers, a bit of water, one evokes the vastness of rivers and mountains."


A single object is used to evoke a vast landscape that does not actually exist in that location. When an object is placed in a space, a place is naturally created around it: a vast landscape evoked by a single organic form object. The belief is that a space created in this way is the ideal place that humans unconsciously seek.

One being, like a cloud swirling like a great wave

Japan is an island nation tht experiences a great deal of humidity. Throughout the year, various clouds formations flow through the sky. In Japan, clouds have been an important element of scenery since ancient times, and have been written about in numerous poems. Fascinated by the beautiful, large, swirling holes that sometimes appear in those flowing clouds, the designer attempted to recreate them. Thin boards tilted in various directions catch the light and create shadows, and those shadows pile up irregularly to create darker shadows, indicating the volume of the clouds. It is a single organic form object and, around it, a blank space is created that invites people in. Visitors look up and face one being.

One by one, hundreds of thin boards are drawn in 3D space by the designer, and finely adjusted to a structurally balanced position by cutting-edge computational design to form a single object. Fixed to the ceiling are ten steel mesh grid panels, 800 mm wide by 1600 mm long, from which countless thin threads hang down regularly along the grid. Each thin board, 3 mm thick, is balanced in the air with three points pierced by its threads, and each board rests in the air in a defined shape. The thin boards are made of 100% virgin pulp material, which is also used in art storage boxes for strength and durability.

This object can be deployed in various spaces, creating different sceneries around it depending on where it is placed. It has already been exhibited in two locations, and two more locations are being proposed. This way of thinking about space creation can be applied to the design of any space.

This work is an attempt to express the Japanese aesthetic sense of finding beauty in a single component of nature, such as a single flower, and then creating a space using such an organically shaped object.

-Best of Year Awards 2023 Honoree / Installation Category
https://interiordesign.net/awards/best-of-year/2023/nakamura-kazunobu-design-works-exhibition-installation/


-AMP Architecture MasterPrize 2023 Winner / Exhibition Category
https://architectureprize.com/winners/winner.php?id=6654

Technical sheet

- Project Name: Into the Space
- Location: Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,JAPAN
- Client: EGIKU JAPANESE-DANCE PRODUCTS
- Installation Design: NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS/Kazunobu Nakamura
- Dancer : Egiku Hanayagi, Keijirou Wakayagi
- Japanese flute: Michiko Fukuhara
- Saund crew : Yasuo Kawata,
- Lighting-design: Theaterbrain/Masao Igarashi
- Production: Tashibu to Fukushima
- Stage director: Noriyuki Shirato
- Photograph: Masaki Komatsu 

- Material
Reinforced corrugated board (3 mm thick, 540 x 720 mm) made from 100% virgin pulp (https://www.tokushu-papertrade.jp/en/product/28_archival-board/),
Steel mesh wire mesh panels (wire diameter 5.0 mm, 200 mm grid, 800 mm x 1600 mm),
Fine polyethylene fiber thread.

About NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS

NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS is an art studio founded for Kazunobu Nakamura to create design. The studio designs spaces such as installation art and interior design. The designer works with themes of movement and flow created in space by irregular shapes, such as Japanese screen paintings and Japanese gardens.

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For more information

  1. nkdesign-works-blog.tumblr.com/

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Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - “One being, like a cloud swirling like a great wave.” - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
“One being, like a cloud swirling like a great wave.”
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Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - An installation art that attempts to express Japanese beauty. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
An installation art that attempts to express Japanese beauty.
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Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art -  Countless thin boards overlap to form a single object.  - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
Countless thin boards overlap to form a single object.
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Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - In "Sakuteiki - Visions of the Japanese Garden" written in the Heian period (794-1185), it is written that the creation of space begins with "setting a stone," that is, by placing an object in an empty space.  - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
In "Sakuteiki - Visions of the Japanese Garden" written in the Heian period (794-1185), it is written that the creation of space begins with "setting a stone," that is, by placing an object in an empty space.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
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High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 2.3 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - Also Ikenobo Sen'o, a master of Japanese flower arranging in the early modern period, once said: "With a spray of flowers, a bit of water, one evokes the vastness of rivers and mountains. "  - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
Also Ikenobo Sen'o, a master of Japanese flower arranging in the early modern period, once said: "With a spray of flowers, a bit of water, one evokes the vastness of rivers and mountains. "
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
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High-resolution image : 11.11 x 16.67 @ 300dpi ~ 5.4 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - The creation of space begins by placing an object in an empty space. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
The creation of space begins by placing an object in an empty space.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
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High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 2.8 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - I was fascinated by the beautiful, large, swirling holes that sometimes appeared in those flowing clouds, and tried to recreate them. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
I was fascinated by the beautiful, large, swirling holes that sometimes appeared in those flowing clouds, and tried to recreate them.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
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High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 3 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - In Japan, clouds have been an important element of scenery since ancient times, and have been written about in numerous poems. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
In Japan, clouds have been an important element of scenery since ancient times, and have been written about in numerous poems.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
Download

High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 3.7 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - When an object is placed in a space, a place is naturally created around it.  - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
When an object is placed in a space, a place is naturally created around it.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
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High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 2.4 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - A vast landscape evoked by a single organic form object. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
A vast landscape evoked by a single organic form object.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
Download

High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 2.6 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - I believe that the space created in this way is the ideal place that humans unconsciously seek. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
I believe that the space created in this way is the ideal place that humans unconsciously seek.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
Download

High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 2.7 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - This work is an attempt to express the Japanese aesthetic sense of finding beauty in a single component of nature, such as a single flower, and creating a space using it. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
This work is an attempt to express the Japanese aesthetic sense of finding beauty in a single component of nature, such as a single flower, and creating a space using it.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
Download

High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 1.4 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - Japanese dance performances were held at this location, and before and after the performances, the audience was invited on stage to actually experience the installation. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
Japanese dance performances were held at this location, and before and after the performances, the audience was invited on stage to actually experience the installation.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
Download

High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 4.5 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - Visitors look up and face One being. - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
Visitors look up and face One being.
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
Download

High-resolution image : 16.67 x 11.11 @ 300dpi ~ 2.9 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - Hundreds of thin boards are drawn one by one in 3D space by a designer, and finely adjusted to a structurally balanced position by cutting-edge computational design to form a single object.  - Photo credit:  Kazunobu Nakamura
Hundreds of thin boards are drawn one by one in 3D space by a designer, and finely adjusted to a structurally balanced position by cutting-edge computational design to form a single object.
Photo credit: Kazunobu Nakamura
Download

High-resolution image : 16.54 x 11.69 @ 300dpi ~ 1.5 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - This object can be deployed in various spaces, creating different scenery around it depending on where it is placed.  - Photo credit:  Kazunobu Nakamura
This object can be deployed in various spaces, creating different scenery around it depending on where it is placed.
Photo credit: Kazunobu Nakamura
Download

High-resolution image : 16.54 x 11.69 @ 300dpi ~ 1.9 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - Fixed to the ceiling are ten steel mesh grid panels, 800 mm wide by 1600 mm long, from which countless thin threads hang down regularly along the grid. - Photo credit:  Kazunobu Nakamura
Fixed to the ceiling are ten steel mesh grid panels, 800 mm wide by 1600 mm long, from which countless thin threads hang down regularly along the grid.
Photo credit: Kazunobu Nakamura
Download

High-resolution image : 16.54 x 11.69 @ 300dpi ~ 2.1 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - Each thin board is balanced in the air with three points pierced by its threads, and each board rests in the air in a defined shape. - Photo credit:  Kazunobu Nakamura
Each thin board is balanced in the air with three points pierced by its threads, and each board rests in the air in a defined shape.
Photo credit: Kazunobu Nakamura
Download

High-resolution image : 16.53 x 11.69 @ 300dpi ~ 2.7 MB

Press kit | 3767-03 - Press release | "Into the Space":  An Installation Art Space  That Attempts to Express Japanese Beauty recognized with BoY Honoree and AMP Award - NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS - Art - The thin boards are made of 100% virgin pulp material, which is also used in art storage boxes,  strength and durability.<br>https://www.tokushu-papertrade.jp/en/product/28_archival-board/<br> - Photo credit:  Masaki Komatsu
The thin boards are made of 100% virgin pulp material, which is also used in art storage boxes, strength and durability.
https://www.tokushu-papertrade.jp/en/product/28_archival-board/
Photo credit: Masaki Komatsu
Download

High-resolution image : 11.11 x 16.67 @ 300dpi ~ 3.3 MB

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