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Flower Arrangements by Azuma Makoto

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Flower Arrangements by Azuma Makoto

Well ‘Flower Arrangements’ is probably a bit of an understatement. Maybe his work is better qualified as art (if we need to label, which we do) Azuma Makoto’s work ranges from sending a 50 year old bonzai tree into space to putting 10,000 mini jars filled with flower petals in the shopwindows of Colette in Paris.

iced flowers 1
for Dries Van Noten’s ‘Interpretations’
‘Collapsible Leaves’ at Salvatore Ferragamo at Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo
azuma makoto represents the stages of decomposition using flowers + leaves
Flower Bottle Tree for The Imperial Hotel Plaza
azuma makoto sends 50 year old bonzai tree into space for exobiotanica project

For the last Dries van Noten Fashion Show he repeated his project ‘Iced Flowers’; flower arrangements captured in large blocks of ice. These ‘Iced Flowers’ were showcased along the runway and were so overpowering that we even didn’t noticed the garments….oops (That’s how we, fashionangels at Mimi Berlin, got aquinted with Azuma Makoto’s work)


The making of “ICED FLOWERS” January 10 & 11, 2015. At 483 Furuike Ogose-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan / Masuda seisakujo (via youtube.com)

(images via azumamakoto.com / designboom.comproject-bonsai/ theaviso.com/ designboombox-flowers)

More art woth flowers on this blog

Ran Hwang Pins and Needles

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 Ran Hwang Pins and Needles

Ran Hwang, Whimsical Dream, 2011, Paper buttons, beads and pins
Ran Hwang, Whimsical Dream, 2011, Paper buttons, beads and pins
Ran Hwang, Dreaming of Joy, 2008, Buttons, pins, stainless steel bars, 240 x 495 x 257 cm
Ran Hwang, Dreaming of Joy, 2008, Buttons, pins, stainless steel bars, 240 x 495 x 257 cm

ARTIST STATEMENT I create large icons such as a Buddha or a traditional vase, using materials from the fashion industry. The process of building large installations are time consuming and repetitive and it requires manual effort which provides a form of self-meditation. I hammer thousands of pins into a wall like a monk who, facing the wall, practices Zen. My works are divided into two groups. In the first, pins are used to hold buttons remain free to move and suggest the genetic human tendency to be irresolute. I choose buttons, which are as common and ordinary as human beings. In the second group of works, a massive number of pins connect yards of thread creating a negative space of the presented images, threads suggesting connections between human beings and a communication network between seemingly unlinked human experiences. The filled negative space in the absence of the positive space suggests mortality at the heart of self-recognition. (via ranhwang.com/images via the red list)