Collapsible leaves by AMKK

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艺术家和设计师Azuma Makoto出生于1976年，并在东京的高档区域青山经营自己的高级时尚花店JARDINS des FLEURS。他在这里进行个人的艺术实践，同时也为客户工作。他利用树木，树叶，苔
藓等等人工植物创造各种艺术品。这是他近期的一个个人项目的个展，他将各种叶片集合起来，形成让人流连忘返的艺术品。这些作品如此独一无二，想必完成需要高超的技艺和快速的行动，这些植物还保持着鲜活，就像是自然的状态一样。

Azuma Makoto从2005年起就在世界各地进行个展，09年创办Azuma Makoto植物研究所，从艺术的角度追求植物的潜力。他的作品独特而神秘，尊重自然，保持花木的美丽，又提升他们本身的价值。大家不要错过他网站上的更多精彩作品哟，点击下面的蓝色链接吧。想要买植物的朋友可以看看这里哦。

Artist and designer Azuma Makoto was born in 1976 and runs a haute couture flower shopcalled JARDINS des FLEURS in Moto-Azabu, Tokyo. His work with plants and flowers alsoextends into personal artistic practice and client work where he creates a wide varietyof sculptures, installations and objects using tress, leaves, moss, and other plantsboth organic and artificial. One of his most recent exhibitions, Collapsible Leaves atEye of Gyre Gallery involved a remarkable collection of suspended and mountedsculptures made of tightly folded and layered leaves. The pieces are unique in that Iimagine they must have required rapid assembly a single leaf at a time, and yet look asif they are naturally occurring objects.

Makoto Azuma has been in the flower business since 2002, and is an owner of the haute- couture floral shop,“JARDINS des FLEURS” in Aoyama, Tokyo. As a flower artist, he has been actively participating in art exhibitions, performance, design etc… all over the world.

From 2005, he has been holding solo exhibitions in cities like New York, Paris and Germany. In 2009, he found an experimental laboratory “Azuma Makoto Botanical Research Institute” and ever since then, he has been expanding art activities pursuing infinitive potential of plants.

Every activity of Makoto Azuma focuses on elevating value of flowers and plants by finding unique and mysterious forms that they posses. Respecting the existence of nature and keeping its dignity, he converts and expresses these beautiful elements to aesthetic level of artwork.

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Makoto Azuma
Born in Fukuoka Japan, 1976.

Exhibition
Jul.2012 — Publication, “Encyclopedia of Flowers” collection of artwork book released in worldwide
Jul.2012 – Art collaboration, champagne brand Perrier-Jouët “Belle Époque Florale Edition”
Apr.2012 – Art Exhibition, “Botanical Lady Dior” at the exhibition of 「LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY」, Tokyo
Apr.2012 – Art video work, ”Luminale 2012” at the Palmengarden, Frankfurt, Germany
Mar.2012 — Art Exhibition, “Time of moss” at Zendai Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai
Feb.2012– Creative Director, SUNTORY Midorie (Urban ecological development project)
Nov.2011– Stage production, live performance “Hana to Mizu” (Naruyoshi Kikuchi & Hiroshi Minami) Tokyo
Nov.2011 — Publication, “2009 – 2011 Flowers” collection of artwork book released, Tokyo
Oct.2011 — Art Installation, Cassina ixc. (Interior) Aoyama, Tokyo
Oct.2011 — Art collaboration, fashion brand HELMUT LANG featuring “MAKOTO AZUMA#2”, Tokyo
Oct.2011 — Art Exhibition, “Collapsible leaves” at gallery GYRE EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo
Aug.2011 — Art Exhibition, “Botanical Sculpture #3 lump” at gallery void+, Tokyo
Jun.2011 — Art Exhibition, “Time of moss” at Beijing Center for the Arts, China
May.2011 — Art video work, “Drop time”
May.2011 — Art collaboration, fashion brand HELMUT LANG featuring “MAKOTO AZUMA”, Tokyo
Feb.2011 — Art Exhibition, ”shiki × bulb” at Triennale Design Museum, Milan
Dec.2010 — Art Exhibition, ”shiki × bulb” at IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT SPACE, Tokyo
Nov.2010 — Art Exhibition, ”Alter Nature” at art center Z33, Belgium
Aug.2010 — Art Production, Landscape Design at boutique Valveat81, Tokyo.
Aug.2010 — Art Exhibition, “Frozen Flower” at gallery void+, Tokyo.
Jul.2010 — Art Production, ”BOTANICA <iida>” mobile concept, KDDI (mobile communication), Tokyo
Jun.2010 — Art Exhibition, ”TOKYO FIBER SENSEWARE” at Design Museum Holon, Israel
May.2010 — Art Exhibition, ”Shiki1”, at Shanghai EXPO Japan industrial pavilion, Shanghai
Apr.2010 — Publication, monthly free paper “AMNP: Azuma Makoto News Paper”
Mar.2010 — Art Produce, ”Fashion In Nature“ at Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Feb.2010 — Art Exhibition, “armored pine” at POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo
Feb.2010 — Art Installation, “Botanical Signboard” (advertisement) at MAZDA Zoom-Zoom stadium, Hiroshima
Dec.2009 — Art Exhibition, “Bridge of Plants” at ARK Hills, Tokyo
Oct.2009 — Art Production & Exhibition, produced flower vase “hand vase”, Tokyo
Oct.2009 — Art Exhibition, “adidas Originals <PLANTS PACK>” (fashion/sports collaboration), Tokyo
Sep.2009 — Art Exhibition, “TOKYO FIBER ’09 SENSEWARE” at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
Jul.2009 — Plants Installation, “直島銭湯 I ♥ 湯 (Naoshima Sento I♥Yu)”, at Naoshima public bath, Kagawa
May.2009 – Art Exhibition, “Daido Moriyama ‘Kiroku” on the road collaboration with 8 creators”, Tokyo
May.2009 — Art Exhibition, “Distortion × Flowers” GYRE EYE OF GYRE ,Tokyo
Apr.2009 — Art Exhibition, “TOKYO FIBER ’09 SENSEWARE” ,Triennale Design Museum ,Milano
Mar.2009 — Art Exhibition, ”Azuma Makoto ’AMPG vol.25’” at Gallery Mitsubishi Artium (IMS), Fukuoka
Oct.2008 — Art Exhibition, “2nd nature” at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
Jul.2008 — Art Exhibition, “BOTANICA(×)” at NRW Forum, Germany
Apr.2007 — Art Exhibition, ”SHIRO NO KI” at Maison Martin Margiera, Tokyo
Apr.2007 — Art Exhibition, opened private gallery for two years in Tokyo
Nov.2006 — Art Performance, “Kehai” for ”Les Soirees Nomades” (Cartier), Paris
Mar.2006 — Art Exhibition at gallery Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium (IMS), Fukuoka
Dec.2005 — Art Exhibition at SONY building in Ginza, Tokyo
Dec.2005 — Art Exhibition, Christmas window display at popular select shop, colette in Paris
Nov.2005 — Art Exhibition, first collection outside Japan in Tribeca, New York

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