Introducing work by 

Aloma Treister

 

 

Midgold

Mixed media & incence burns on rice paper       2009

113cm x 82cm

 

 

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Recent exhibition

Peter Dittmar

"WINDOWS BETWEEN CULTURES"

 

 

German born artist Peter Dittmar will be exhibiting paintings from his 'Colour Windows' series for the first time at Kazari Collector in October 2011, showing works created in his studios of Bali and Sydney and following exhibitions in Berlin and Sydney this year. Dittmar has exhibited extensively across the world and is represented in numerous public collections in Germany as well as in Indonesia, China, Singapore and Australia. Influenced by Eastern painterly traditions and combining calligraphic strokes, his works evoke a peaceful energy with a meditative arrangement of strong colour, texture and spatial arrangement.  

The Colour Windows, Peter says, are ‘objects for contemplation’ in the ‘Buddhist tradition of mandalas, but in a ‘contemporary way’ and are ‘supports for the viewer to concentrate and meditate aiming at stillness and inner peace’.  The ‘Colour Window’ works with cut out centres symbolise the void, the non-expressible.

 

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NEW ARRIVALS: Kazuyuki Ohtsu & Ray Morimura prints

 

  

Coming soon works by internationally acclaimed printmakers Toko Shinoda and Daniel Kelly

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RECENT NEWS

Fundraiser & Auction for Red Cross Japan and Pacific Disaster Appeal
CLICK HERE TO VIEW ONLINE AUCTION AND EVENT AT KAZARI SAT 9th APRIL

New Japanese ceramics arrivals on webpage now

VISIT OUR JAPANESE CERAMICS PAGE HERE

 

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NOW SHOWING: Summer 2010/2011 Japanese and Chinese print exhibition

A collection of C19th ukiyo-e, C20th shin hanga and sosaku hanga woodblock prints, contemporary printmakers and fine art prints from contemporary Chinese artists. Click for more information

Over 120 prints, artists include:  Hasui Kawase (1883-1957), Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), Hiroko OKAMOTO (b.1953), Kunio KANEKO (b.1949), Katsunori HAMANISHI (b.1949), Teruhide Kato (b.1936), Koitsu Tsuchiya (1870-1949), Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912), Kim Sohee (b.1983), NAKAZAWA Shin'ichi (b.1956), SHIOMI Nana (b.1956), OHTSUBO Kazue (b.1934), TANAKA Ryohei (b.1933), MORIMURA Ray (b.1948), GOJO Miki (b.1967), Nishijima Katsuyuki (b.1945), Yamataka Noboru (b.1926), Yoshikazu TANAKA (b.1933), Yin Jun (CH), Li Zhihong (CH), Ma Yue (CH), He Wenbin (CH) and many others.

 

 

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RECENT NEWS

NOTES FROM THE HEART

An exhibition of new calligraphy and ink paintings by Junko Azukawa

11 September - 2nd October

Opening reception Saturday 11th September 3-5pm
Calligraphy demonstration from 2.30pm

click to view selected works

 

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Giuseppe Tucci Symposium

Monash University Friday 1st October 10am - 5pm

Monash Asia Institute hold a one day symposium with international experts on the last great European explorer in Asia, 
Giuseppe Tucci (1894 - 1984). 
Visit Monash Asia Institute Website for more information.

 

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Jill Symes - Earth and Fire

Retrospective exhibition at the Japanese Information and Cultural Centre

14th September - 28th October

Consulate General of Japan: Level 8, 570 Bourke St, Melbourne.9679 4560

An exhibition selected from the artist’s collection from 1979 to 2010 which demonstrates an aesthetic sensibility developed during her early studies of Japanese-style stoneware ceramics, which was predominantly taught in Melbourne pottery schools in the 1970’s.

 

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Ikebana International  Melbourne Chapter ANNUAL IKEBANA EXHIBITION Wednesday 1st - Sunday 5th September   Over 40 arrangements representing the schools of Sogetsu, Ohara, Ikenobo, Ichyo and Shogetsuda-koryu   OVER 2 LOCATIONS  Kazari Collector and Kazari Decorator 290 & 450 Malvern Rd Prahran. 03 9510 2528

 

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Revealed Form Winter Sogetsu Exhibition Opening Saturday 3rd July 3-5pm Until 10th July To be opened by the Deputy Consul-General of Japan Mr Yasufumi Kotake Kazari Collector 450 Malvern Rd, Prahran. info@kazari.com.au  03 95102528

Opening this Saturday 3rd July members of the Sogetsu School Branch of Melbourne will be showing arrangements at Kazari Collector. One of the most avant garde schools of Japanese flower arranging, Sogetsu was founded in 1927 in Japan and has just celebrated 50 years of practice in Australia with the visit of the current grand Master Iemoto Akane Teshigahara. The Melbourne branch has around 50 members, a number of whom assisted Sogetsu Master Tetsunori Kawana with his bamboo sculpture created for the National Gallery of Victoria last year, along with a number of teachers and regular demonstrators in Melbourne and Kazari artist Evan Demas.
 

 

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A Night in Afghanistan - Fundraiser, performance and presentation

Tuesday 7th September 6.30pm
 

Musical performance, documentary film excerpts, refreshments and presentation by Dr. Ahmad Sarmast

Kazari Collector 450 Malvern Rd, Prahran.

Tickets $20: 9510 2528 / info@kazari.com.au

www.afghanistannationalinstituteofmusic.org

After a fantastic response to this inspiring project at the launch celebration at Kazari almost one year ago in association with Monash Asia Institute, Dr Ahmad Sarmast (Founding Director ANIM) has returned to Melbourne after the inaugaration of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul in June this year.

Dr Sarmast will be giving a presentation on the inaugaration and development of the Institute in this hostile region along with a musical performance by Sultan Mohammad Miazoi (rabab), Sam Evans (tabla) and Siawash Sarmast (tabla), and eyewitness accounts and excerpts from a forthcoming film by award winning documentary filmmaker Polly Watkins.

 

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Fragments of Landscape
Exhibition opening Saturday 8th May - 29th May

With over 25 years as a ceramic artist, this will be Jill Symes' 5th exhibition with Kazari. 

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Renowned landscape designer and professor in environmental planning at Osaka University of Arts, Masao Fukuhara is visiting Melbourne to conduct masterclasses through the ISS - International Specialised Skills Institute and other major sponsors, is to give a public talk at Kazari as part of his visit.

Professor Masao Fukuhara

'Creating Balance in City Life'

Tuesday May 11th at 6.30 - 8.30pm
Drinks + snacks provided
$20 per person call 95102528 to book

Kazari Collector 450 Malvern Rd, Prahran

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ASAHI SILVER + BLACK EXHIBITION AND RETAIL INITIATIVE

An Asahi initiated project featuring international artists and designers including selected pieces from Kazari and a special installation by Kazari represented artist Evan Demas.

Exhibition 8th - 18th April: 1000 pound bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street.

For more information and Sydney dates:www.asahibeer.com.au
 

 

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'Art and Food'  

Autumn banquets now at Cafe Kazari 

$66 + BYO      pre -payment with booking - corkage charges

See Cafe Kazari  page for Autumn dates - Winter dates and prices up soon but please send email to request early booking - special dietrary requests OK - please discuss when booking. Find us with google maps

 

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Japanese Fine Art

Annual exhibition:  opens 19th November 2009
 

Genji-e

C18th- C20th Japanese paintings recently released including
C18th Genji scenes and a range of other paintings

Visit our gallery site www.kazarigallery.com to view a range of paintings, prints, screens and scrolls
 

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Faustas Sadauskas

Embodiment
Recent Works in Australian Marble

Exhibition Opening Saturday 10th October 2009, 2.30 - 5pm

Faustas Sadauskas

Arka V
Marble (Gucup, NSW)
33cm x 34cm x 27cm

More Information    www.kazarigallery.com
 

Contact the gallery to order a catalogue or to arrange a preview

Installation detail - Evan Demas 2009

Sponsors speech click here

5 Elements Water -detail  Master Kawana copyright

Master Tetsunori Kawana is an internationally renowned practitioner of contemporary Japanese bamboo sculpture. For more than 30 years he has travelled worldwide by invitation to create breathtaking bamboo installations of a spectacular scale unseen in the related traditional practice of Ikebana. This winter, the Grollo-Equiset Garden at NGV International will be transformed by Master Kawana through his creation of Five Elements – Water, a unique bamboo sculpture of vast physical proportion and lyrical power.

5 Elements- Water -detail  Master Kawana copyright

Installation in progress May 2009                 Images copyright Tony Delves

   
kawanaworld.com

Kazari's Japanese Furniture featured on ABC TV Collectors, Friday 7th November

View video

Text from Collectors Website:
Gordon Brown introduces us to the Tansu, the traditional Japanese piece of furniture for storing things.

When the Shoguns and the samurai class were at the height of their power during the Edo period (1600-1868), the merchant class flourished and their new wealth led to a boom in the production of tansu or chests for storing a variety of items.

They come in all shapes and sizes, in many timbers, and ingenious and beautiful designs. Today they are highly collectable, being very decorative and extremely useful, a good combination.

Kabuki Theatre Posters 

by Torii Kiyotada VIII (1900-1976)

From the famous Torii family, the primary lineage of artists and promoters associated with the Kabuki Theatre houses since the early C17th. The family is partly responsible for bringing the rich Kabuki culture from Osaka to Edo (Tokyo) in the late C17th. The family's work had great influence on the ukiyo-e woodblock print movement, and some kabuki posters are still produced by members of the family today.

Four paintings dating to the 1960s, 146cm x 92cm. Currently offered unframed.
(two earlier posters from the family are also available).

Visit our Japanese paintings page for detail shots and more paintings
 

Collectable Chinese Furniture

 2nd April  - 30th April

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Chinese antique furniture ranging from the late Ming Dynasty to the Middle Qing Dynasty: C16th - C19th. Over 70 works including rare and exotic hardwood tables as well as softwood provincial example, all hand selected by Kazari directors over more than a decade.

Made In China: 3 Photographic Portfolios

2nd April  - 30th April

Melbourne-based photographers; Georgia Metaxas, Louis Porter and Josh Robenstone display their individual projects created in Beijing during the Olympic games of 2008.

exhibition and sale of prints from the 

John Lord & Mary Stewart Collection

26th February - 22nd March

Opening Thursday 26th February 6:30 - 8.30pm
Collectors talk with Mary Stewart from 6:00-6:30

At Kazari Collector visit www.kazarigallery.com  for more details