KINTSUGI Gallery
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Out of the artist’s immersion into the world of Byzantium - rich with shimmering gold, mosaics and icons - comes a re-visioning. In the Kintsugi series Capolongo continues to work with elegant Asian pottery, especially of the Ming and Qing dynasties; but now entering into the mix is the art of kintsugi, or kintsukuroi. This is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold or other precious metals. Rather than attempting to deny or disguise the breakage, damage is hi-lighted, becoming part of the object’s history. As in the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, there is an acceptance of the flawed or imperfect. But in hi-lighting and re-presenting the cracks and repairs, it is not brokenness that is celebrated, but redemption. It is the symbolism inherent in the art of kintsugi – a type of metaphor for human healing, renewal or rebirth - that strikes a chord with the artist, who reminds us that beauty and strength can come from picking up the pieces that life leaves us in sometimes, and making something new. In that spirit, the artist often begins his work by literally shattering ceramic-like panels, then assembling and mounting the fragments onto rigid supports.