Ino Ichizo
- EXHIBITION
01/3
[On exhibit] Vehicle of Peace (girl), 2017, lacquer, wood, sawdust clay, ground powder, abrasive powder, rice flour, resin and gold leaf. Private collection.
[On exhibit] Vehicle of Peace (boy), 2023, lacquer, wood, sawdust clay, ground powder, abrasive powder, rice flour, resin and pigment. Collection of the artist.
[On exhibit] Vehicle of Peace (fawn), 2020, lacquer, wood, sawdust clay, ground powder, abrasive powder, rice flour, resin, pigment and gold leaf. Collection of the artist.
For his series Vehicles of Peace, Ino creates sculptures of fawns, children, dogs, cats, and other familiar presences using a dry-lacquer technique. Fawns and children appear frequently in his recent works, arranged in compositions resembling a small family. As the word “peace” in the series’ title implies, the works are rendered in a flowing sculptural style with a palpable sense of stillness surrounding them. Ino’s works are defined by this remarkable tranquility, with even those unconnected to the series generating the same sense of stillness. The sculptures feature a simple color scheme of red and black lacquer and gold painted on the surface. His human figures are markedly different from those seen in Western sculpture, instead calling to mind those seen in Japanese Buddhist art from the tenth to twelfth century.
