Spazio Nobile Gallery
Matsubayashi Hosai XVI & Mae Engelgeer, Echoes of Wa
Afterwork Thursday 8 October, 5-8 PM
Rue Franz Merjay 142, 1050 Brussels
Ceramic chawans and Wans by Matsubayashi Hosai XVI and Tate Hana created with Mae Engelgeer, Photo by Sébastien Van de Walle
At the heart of Matsubayashi Hosai XVI‘s practice is kirei-sabi, the aesthetic sensibility inherited within Asahiyaki, which unites refined, luminous beauty with a plain, primitive one — a sensibility he seeks to rearticulate through his own experience as an artist living in the present, rather than preserve as a fixed style.
Ori Totans woven tapestries by Mae Engelgeer in collaboration with Kyoto master weavers HosooPhoto by Sébastien Van de Walle
Mae Engelgeer unveils a sensory dialogue with Japanese art and craft heritage, in duo show with Matsubayashi Hosai XVI. Spazio Nobile presents a new, highly collaborative body of her work that bridges contemporary art and design with centuries of Japanese craftsmanship. From historic bamboo craftsmanship and paper lantern making to advanced woodworking and textile weaving, Engelgeer has collaborated directly with Kyoto’s most revered master artisans. Together, they have translated the quiet rhythms, structural lines, and natural elements of her surrounding environment into a sensory material language
Spazio Nobile Studiolo
Chisato Yasui, Monad
Afterwork Thursday 8 October, 5-8 PM
Rue Franz Merjay 169, 1050 Brussels
Chisato Yasui alongside her totemic painted ceramic sculpture, Profile of Noema and Noesis. Photo by Sébastien Van de Walle
“Monad is a philosophical term for an individual, self-contained existence. Yet the Japanese word Awai feels truer to what this exhibition became through my practice: the in-between space where dialogue, relationships, and new meanings emerge. It is a fragile place. The moment we rush to define it with clear language, something essential disappears. My ceramic works are born by gently holding that fragility, through an ongoing dialogue with clay — the material itself, its changing states, and the very structure of making, all mirroring this in-between territory.”
Chisato Yasui
