Back

LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024

Award  /  14 May 2024
 
Published: 30.09.2023
Moe Watanabe. Vessel: Transfer Surface, 2023. Walnut bark. 37 x 40 x 37 cm. Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023. Special Mention Loewe Craft Prize 2023 . . This simple yet powerful box is made from walnut bark collected from the Tohoku region of Japan. The bark has been stripped and then moulded to create a simple box shape made from one large strip, showing a fantastic understanding and respect for the material in its manipulation. Overlapping at the side, the bark is secured with simple stitches to hold it in place, and its shape recalls the Japanese tradition of Ikebana vases. The box’s simplicity of form allows the respect of the material and the direct nature of the wood to come to the fore.. Moe Watanabe
Vessel: Transfer Surface, 2023
Walnut bark
37 x 40 x 37 cm
Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023
Special Mention Loewe Craft Prize 2023

This simple yet powerful box is made from walnut bark collected from the Tohoku region of Japan. The bark has been stripped and then moulded to create a simple box shape made from one large strip, showing a fantastic understanding and respect for the material in its manipulation. Overlapping at the side, the bark is secured with simple stitches to hold it in place, and its shape recalls the Japanese tradition of Ikebana vases. The box’s simplicity of form allows the respect of the material and the direct nature of the wood to come to the fore.
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Intro
The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize was launched in 2016 to showcase excellence, artistic merit and newness in modern craftsmanship. It seeks to acknowledge and support international artists who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value, with the winner receiving 50,000 euros and two special mentions receiving 10,000 euros.
 
> <

More Awards