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SEIZAN Gallery New York is pleased to present Takashi Seto: Moments Of Arrival, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, on view from March 6 through May 3, 2025. Showcasing fifteen recent works on canvas, the exhibition highlights Seto’s mastery of Yuzen fabric dyeing and Shippaku metal leaf techniques — the traditional craft methods he revives and reinterprets. Through this intricate process, Seto explores cultural heritage, symbolism, and the passage of time, transforming ephemeral materials into meditative, multi-layered works.
Artist, craftsman, and researcher, Takashi Seto studies 18th-century Yuzen textbooks and revives forgotten techniques, expanding them into new artistic expressions. His labor-intensive process includes hand-drawn rice paste resist lines, applied with a cone-shaped tube onto translucent silk. This meticulous method produces intricate details and layered dye applications. The silk is then stretched over a silver-leaf-…
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SEIZAN Gallery New York is pleased to present Takashi Seto: Moments Of Arrival, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, on view from March 6 through May 3, 2025. Showcasing fifteen recent works on canvas, the exhibition highlights Seto’s mastery of Yuzen fabric dyeing and Shippaku metal leaf techniques — the traditional craft methods he revives and reinterprets. Through this intricate process, Seto explores cultural heritage, symbolism, and the passage of time, transforming ephemeral materials into meditative, multi-layered works.
Artist, craftsman, and researcher, Takashi Seto studies 18th-century Yuzen textbooks and revives forgotten techniques, expanding them into new artistic expressions. His labor-intensive process includes hand-drawn rice paste resist lines, applied with a cone-shaped tube onto translucent silk. This meticulous method produces intricate details and layered dye applications. The silk is then stretched over a silver-leaf-…
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