Jiro Kamata: Voices

Description

Jiro Kamata: Voices presents Kamata's works here in English, Chinese and Japanese - delving into the aesthetic brilliance, dimensions of optical experience and perception of values in this premium-designed publication. In his artistic jewellery work Jiro Kamata, offspring of a Japanese family of jewellers, deals with optical phenomena in connection with the perception of values. In doing so he spurns classic jewellery not only aesthetically, but also queries traditional production methods. Instead of ores and precious stones prospected under adverse conditions, he processes found and sometimes already used materials into rings, brooches and pendants. To the traditional extraction of materials Kamata opposes a practice of material preservation.

Jiro Kamata was born in 1978 to a family of jewellers in the ancient city of Hirosaki (JP). From 2000 he studied with Otto Kunzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (DE). His work has been shown internationally and can be found in several public and private collections worldwide. Kamata lives and works in Munich.