Out of the Ordinary - Spectacular Craft at the V&A: Yoshihiro Suda Installation

This joint V&A and Crafts Council exhibition featured eight international artists who place meticulous craftsmanship at the heart of their work. On display were unusual and beautifully crafted installations. The artists take inspiration from the everyday, transforming their subjects using traditional techniques in unexpected ways.

Yoshihiro Suda is based in Tokyo. He creates hyper-realistic flowers and weeds from wood. He sets himself the task of making each new work more lifelike than the last. Painstakingly carving and painting each piece, using traditional Japanese tools, he may take many days to complete a single petal or leaf.

Suda only starts to make his works once he has considered the space they will be shown in. He chooses native plants commonly found in the city where his work will be exhibited. He situates his pieces in surprising places, growing unexpectedly out of pristine gallery walls and pushing up out of forgotten corners. His interventions reveal the beauty in the simple and apparently unconsidered.

'Simply, I want to know how detailed I can make it, how real I can make it. This is an old-fashioned way of thinking, to make something so naturalistic that it looks like the original. It is not the fashion now, to observe something and make it very skilfully, the idea itself is very deep. To make this kind of copy, the technique is very important. There are no goals as such, just that I can make it better next time.'

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[neikaplay]

would be nice to see the final works at the end of the videos for a better idea. i don't think that would affect me wanting to see the show. for e.g the susan collis video gave me no clue at all.

[Kilika808]

Suda's solo exhibition at The Contemporary Museum Honolulu is set to open this weekend.

I was fortunate enough to watch the artist installing some of his sculptures in the gallery. These pieces are just incredible to see in person!

[kasetheguru]

hmmm