Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Triton with a Sea Serpent, the 1630s
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian artist, arguably the greatest sculptor of the 17th century, known for having developed the Baroque style of sculpture. Bernini is also known for his outstanding architectural works.
The left hand of Triton and the tail of the sea serpent were broken into five pieces. The fragments were reassembled, losses were filled and the fill was invisibly retouched.
"Courtesy of Detroit Institute of Arts, Conservation Department Imaging Lab”
Dame Lucie Rie
1902–1995
Porcelain Bowl with Authentic Kintsugi
Lucie Rie was an Austrian-born British ceramics artist. Rie’s works, usually consisting of hand-thrown pots, bottles, and bowl forms, are noteworthy for their Modernist forms and her use of bright colors.
The Collection of Michael Henry
Anish Kapoor
Inout (Infinity) 2009
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Tate Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Kapoor commissioned Factum Arte Madrid to produce a two-meter-long sculpture made of highly polished stainless steel panels. Naoko joined the production team as a chief fabricator and assembled over 3000 pieces of panels three-dimensionally.
Duane Hanson
Sunbather Study I
Kresge Art Museum, USA
Hanson was an American sculptor known for his hyper-realistic depictions of ordinary people. His works can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.
The sculpture was made of bronze with polyester resin and it had small chips on the forehead and swim cap. The chips were restored invisibly.
"Courtesy of Detroit Institute of Arts, Conservation Department Imaging Lab”
Auguste Rodin
The Thinker
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
The surface of the sculpture was cleaned with non-ionic detergent. The sculpture was coated with wax using a handheld propane torch and the surface was buffed.
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Yoko Ono
Freight Train
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
“Freight Train” is a German boxcar, rising nearly 10 feet from a segment of track and stretching about 32 feet long. Its walls are riddled with bullet holes and a light shines from within, piercing the wounds and emanating in a searchlight-like ray through the roof of the train.
In 2003, Freight Train arrived at The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum for display. Naoko inspected the condition of the train and discovered that bullet holes were filled with fungus. Naoko removed the fungus and treated the wood with fungicide.
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Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
1830-1908
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Hosmer was a neoclassical sculptor, considered the most distinguished female sculptor in America during the 19th century. She is known as the first female professional sculptor.
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Shōji Hamada
1894-1978
Hamada was a Japanese potter. He was a significant influence on studio pottery of the twentieth century, and a major figure of the Mingei folk-art movement, establishing the town of Mashiko as a world-renowned pottery centre. In 1955 he was designated a "Living National Treasure".
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Kokuta Suda
1906 - 1990
Kokuta Suda became one of the most important abstract painters of the Japanese avant-garde. In 1948, Suda joined the Han Bijutsu-ka Kyokai (Han Artists Association) founded by Yoshihara Jiro, and in 1949 was introduced to abstract painting via the influential Hasegawa Saburo.
Suda’s works are held in museum and gallery collections around the world, including the Miho Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the MET in NYC.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
KanJiro Kawai
1890 – 1966
Kanjirō Kawai was a Japanese potter and a key figure in mingei (Japanese folk art) and studio pottery movements. His output was tremendous. He was a master of glazes and performed 10,000 experiments on glazes while still a student at the ceramic divisions of Tokyo Technical College and Kyoto Municipal Institute of Ceramics.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
c.1955 Toyo Kaneshige
1896-1967
Kaneshige was a potter in Imbe, Japan. He helped to establish the Japan Kōgei Association in 1955 and was deemed a living national treasure in 1956 for his work in the Bizen style ceramics.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Jomon Period Potery 14,000 - 300 BC
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Bernard Leach
1887-1979
Leach was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Many potters from all over the world were apprenticed at the Leach Pottery and spread Leach's style and beliefs.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Yuzo Kondo
1902 - 1985
Kondo Yuzo was a highly celebrated Japanese ceramist working in the tradition of sometsuke (cobalt blue-and-white porcelain), for which he was designated a Living National Treasure. Yuzo's vigorous brushwork and bold patterning set his work apart from his contemporaries, further praised for his use of specific imagery such as pomegranates, bamboo shoots, plum branches (his favorite motif), and landscapes executed primarily in underglaze cobalt blue.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Takuo Kato
1917-2005
Takuo Kato was born into a family of pottery masters dating back to the late Edo period, Kato studied ceramic art under his father Kobe Kato, and in 1965 traveled to Finland to continue his studies. His works were accepted for the Nitten (Imperial Art Exhibition) for seven successive years from 1956, designated a Living National Treasure.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Makuzu Kōzan II
1842-1916
Makuzu Kōzan II was a Japanese ceramist. He was appointed artist to the Japanese Imperial household and was one of the major potters of the Meiji Era. From 1876 to 1913, Kōzan won prizes at 51 exhibitions, including the World's Fair and the National Industrial Exhibition.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Yu Geun-Hyeong
1894 – 1993
Yu Geun-Hyeong (유근형 ; 柳根瀅) was a master Korean ceramist and played a leading role in the revival of Goryeo celadon. He was honored by the government as a Living National Treasure as a holder of Intangible Cultural Property No.13 of Gyeonggi Province.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Yoko Ono and Vancouver Art Gallery
A special collaboration event with Yoko Ono exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Nancy Daum
Daum is a crystal studio based in Nancy, France, founded in 1878 by Jean Daum (1825–1885). His sons, Auguste Daum (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931) oversaw its growth during the burgeoning Art Nouveau period. Daum is one of the only crystal manufacturers to employ the pâte de verre (glass paste) process for art glass and crystal sculptures, a technique in which crushed glass is packed into a refractory mould and then fused in a kiln.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Ohi Chozaemon IX
1901-1986
Ohi Chozaemon IX was born in Kanazawa and worked in his father's studio after completing the ceramics course at Ishikawa Prefectural Industrial School. Studies in Zen Buddhism at Empukuji Temple in Kyoto may have influenced his work. His tea bowls are included in the collection of the Imperial Household.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
Damian Moppett
Damian Moppett (b. 1969, Calgary, Alberta; lives/works: Vancouver) has long been engaged with the processes and materials of painting and sculpture, and their histories, which he uses for the construction of his own vernacular. In his work, Auguste Rodin and Mike Kelley hold court alongside amateur ceramics and humourous interpretations of classical modernist sculpture.
The Collection of Damian Moppett
Jeremy Laing
Jeremy Laing is a Canadian fashion designer based in Toronto, Ontario who launched his eponymous brand in 2005. Beginning with a low-key show during New York Fashion Week, he has established a reputation for sharp tailoring, geometric construction and draping and layering techniques.
The Collection of Jeremy Laing
Teapot Excavated by Wayne Ngan
Ngan was an important Canadian potter, sculptor, painter, and educator. His pottery is in the collections of numerous museums and his works have been widely exhibited in Canada and internationally.
Ngan found the tip the spout sticking out from the ground by the countryside road in Kagoshima during his trip to Japan in the1970s. He dug out the entire pot from the soil and hand-built a missing lid and handle himself. The teapot had three cracks and chips at the end of the spout and along the cracks. This object held important memories for Ngan and he was very touched when the damages were restored by the 500 years old traditional Japanese Kintsugi (gold joinery) method.
The Collection of Anne Ngan
Michael Henry
Henry was an apprentice of Bernard Leach at St.Ives in England. He is one of the important potters who formed an integral part of the West Coast studio pottery movement that flourished during the 1960s and 1970s and produced a legacy of ceramics equal to any other in the world.
A pitcher was broken into six pieces and restored by the 500 years old traditional Japanese Kintsugi technique using Urushi resin and gold powder.
The Collection of Heinz Laffin
Glenn Lewis
Lewis is a Canadian cross-disciplinary contemporary artist. In 1969, Lewis was commissioned by the Canadian government to create a work of art for Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. Artifact, a sculptural ceramic work, was ultimately not shown, because it was thought by the commissioner of the Canadian pavilion to be obscene. As a co-founding member of the New Era Social Club, Intermedia, and, in 1973, the Western Front, Lewis was one of an internationally recognized group of artists who established social practice as an artistic medium in Vancouver.
Heinz Laffin
Laffin studied at the Vancouver School of Art from 1958 to 1963 under Robert Weghsteen and at the UBC Summer School in 1960 under John Reeve. From 1963 to 1967, he and Wayne Ngan shared a residence in Vancouver and teaching duties at the Vancouver School of Art, where they instructed from 1965 to 1967.
The mouth of the jug was broken into four pieces and restored by the 500 years old traditional Japanese Kintsugi technique using Urushi resin and gold powder.
Gerhard Kozel
Kozel was an early British Columbia studio potter who immigrated to Canada from Germany, producing pottery during the 1970s alongside Daniel Materna (d.u.) and Meg Buckley (1931–2020) at Tansar Crafts in Vancouver.
The plate had a large fire crack and the crack was restored by the 500 years old traditional Japanese Kintsugi technique using Urushi resin and brass powder.
Tessan
Incense Burner 1900s
Fukumaru Antique and Fine Art Auction, Japan
The Japanese earthenware incense burner was broken into ten pieces and had losses. The burner was restored by the 500 years old traditional Japanese Kintsugi technique using Urushi resin and gold powder.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration
University of California, Los Angeles and
the Institute of Archaeology at Tirana
Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit
Naoko joined a project of the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit in 2004 as the chief ceramic conservator. She excavated and conserved numerous archaeological ceramics, iron age metal artifacts, and human bones.
Chichester Museum, UK
The first-century Roman Beaker
The Roman Earthenware Beaker was broken into 24 pieces and had large losses. The beaker had an extensive previous repair. The previous repair was removed, the fragments were reassembled, the losses were reconstructed and the reconstruction was retouched.
"Courtesy of Chichester Museum, Conservation Department Imaging Lab”
The Museum of London
The first-century Roman Glass Jug
156 blue Roman glass fragments were assembled and the shape support was made with modeling wax. A two-piece mold was made using silicone rubber and the final support was cast with clear resin.
"Courtesy of The Museum of London, Conservation Department Imaging Lab”
Miura Chikusen IV
1911-1976
The porcelain plate was made by Miura Chikusen IV of the renowned family of Kyoto ceramic artists.
The plate was broken into five pieces and restored by the 500 years old traditional Japanese Kintsugi technique using Urushi resin and gold powder.
The Collection of Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration