art line

Top Boots Shoes Pumps Mule Bag Accessory Silhouette Human action

"Art line"

I simultaneously have experimental art-line which based on animal and plant motifs.

I would love to show them as art through galleries and museums.

All of these designs are wearable.

Adventure to the Future

This describes ordinary days mean everything dives into opaque future continuously.

It doesn't matter who hurt you.

The image is plasters which one of them is on the outside of a heel and another is on the toe.

Someone makes you smile

A face of cat in profile which fawns on owner's foot.

Sleeping bear

One of "Face" series.

Sleeping cat

One of "FACE" series.

Sleeping sheep

One of "FACE" series.

Peace behind a sleeping cat

The motif is carvings "Nemuri Neko (Sleeping cat)" at a Tosyogu shrine in Nikko, Japan.

The carvings of a front are a sleeping cat and there are playing small birds on the back. The carvings represent a peaceful world that even a cat sleeps.

fiddleback waist with stacked leather heel and Bolognese construction.

I dyed blue green and yellow on leather in pink.

Advertisement of an exhibition "S H O E S " at Kunsthal Rotterdam.

"S.H.O.E.S. Head over Heels"

Kunstahl Rotterdam, Rotterdam Netherlands from 1 February to 11 May 2014

The Kunsthal Rotterdam will reveal the astonishing story of women's shoe design from 1900 to the present during the Spring of 2014. "S.H.O.E.S" - Sexy Heels Or Easy Sandals - will exhibit more than 500 shoes created by celebrated designers such as André Perugia and Salvatore Ferragamo, international "stars" Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin, as well as contemporary and rising young talent. Shoes as genuine, finely fashioned objets d'art, ranging from Victorian boots to seductive slippers and from high heels to futuristic pieces. The unbelievable variety and inventiveness of so many shoe designs is a delight for the eye: the S.H.O.E.S. exhibition is a must-see for anyone with a passion for fashion.

From practical design to status symbol

Over the years various decorative elements have made their appearance into the world of shoe fashion: amongst others the floating heel, open heel, platform shoes, ankle straps and bows. Designers have constantly experimented with form, materials, colour and comfort. Cross-fertilisation and retro-reference have been combined with new experimentation. The woman's shoe has become increasingly elegant, and heel height has reached as much as 15cm. New technologies and materials such as micro-fibre, elastic and synthetics have made extreme forms, sometimes highly erotically charged, possible. The rise of the "couturier" fashion houses and their designers have taken the woman's shoe from attractive accessory to ultimate status symbol. Just as Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker swears by her Manolo Blahniks, many women long for new shoes as for new love.

Jewels from renowned collections

Numerous star pieces from celebrated collections will be on display in the S.H.O.E.S. exhibition - a collaboration with the Fashion Museum Hasselt - such as Perugia's surrealist 1931 design "Homage to Braque" from the International Footwear Museum in Romans-sur-Isère, as well as the first platform-sole sandal that Ferragamo designed in 1938 for Judy Garland. Naturally, there is also place for Roger Vivier, who invented the stiletto in 1954. Closer to home, many other splendid designs, such as the 1960 transparent plastic pump by Beth & Herbert Levine from the Fashion Museum Hasselt collection, and the 1985 colourful stiletto by Charles Jourdan from the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk. These grand-masters of shoe design will be featured alongside The Netherlands' own Jan Jansen, himself a member of the international elite since the early 1970s. Some well-known contemporary Dutch and Belgian designers will also be broadly represented in S.H.O.E.S., including Rem D. Koolhaas, Jan Taminiau and the rising talents Katrien Herdewijn and Nienke van Dee (winner of the Global Footwear Design Award 2013).

Items for exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam

"Schuhe - die Welt an unseren Füßen"

Museum Auberlehaus, Trossingen Germany from 4 October 2014 to 25 January 2015

Shoes are one of the most important parts of clothing and protection in the history of mankind. Since prehistoric times the use of protection for the feet are known by archeologists.

The Show at the Auberlehaus exhibits not only shoes – its exhibits history! It will be a kind of a time travel to the shoe makers and masters of their times; Egyptian sandals, early medieval shoes, shoes from the 16th till 19th century till our times.

You will explore the influences of those ancient masterpieces on today shoe ware and,

of course – you will see today’s masterpieces of top designers.

Specific classification helps you as well to see the development in shoemaking as well as “shoes with a story” as a pair of football-boots worn at the FIFA World championship 2006 by German football star, Miroslav Klose and more.

To see what has happened in other parts of our lovely world we present international shoe – design from various ages and countries more or less once round the world, from the Sami people in Scandinavia to shoes made out of tires from southern Africa, from Moccasins of Native Americans to the shoes of China.

There will be a competition for pupils in making their own shoe – fashion – make the shoes you always dream of – doesn’t matter how crazy they are.

A special feature for the show and – we are really curious what ideas and philosophies we will explore!

The shoes are loans from:

German State Museums

Private Collectors

The German Shoe Museum

Museum Auberlehaus Collections and Archives

Int. designers (partly in conjunction with the Virtual Shoe Museum)

Delight

The stuffed animal seems to be jumping at the grassland, when a person walks.

I dyed blue green and yellow on leather in pink.

"Local Shoemakers - from local to the world"

This event was held at a showroom "Time & Effort" in Ginza, Tokyo from 8 to 21 November 2013.

19 selected works from all my works were exhibited.

"Recipe for leg aesthetics - High heels"

This event was held at a showroom "Time & Effort" in Ginza, Tokyo from 26th September to 6th October.

Cat hides own head but leaves its paws exposed.

These hind paws' tassels express Japanese proverb "You hide own head but leave your bottom exposed" which means that you expose your weak point while attempting to protect yourself. The wedge heel is designed like cat's front paws which are neatly side by side.

I will also exhibit "Puss on Boots" at a same time.

"SHOEting Stars. Shoes in Art and Design"

KUNST HAUS WIEN. Museum Hundertwasser, Wien Austria from 18 June to 5 October

The topic of “shoes“ opens up an entire cosmos of stories, personal experiences and preconceptions. Shoes symbolise passion, fetish, sensuality, and the search for perfection. They represent trivial needs and at the same time are an attractive medium for artistic exploration. The subject of this exhibition is the contemplation of shoes not only as transient fashion projects but as design objects that make their own autonomous statements.

Most of the approximately 220 experimental shoe creations by designers, artists and architects are one of a kind or have been produced only in small series. Many have been devised as small sculptures, as conceptual statements, or as provocations against the main stream. These SHOEting Stars are distinguished by their unusual forms, exclusive materials and “emotional added value” – often to the detriment of their actual wearability.

The thematic grouping of the exhibited works underscores the blurring of boundaries between art, design and handicrafts. The spectrum ranges from an architectonic approach through experiments with materials to the shoe as a fetish object. The manifold possibilities inherent in shoes as a creative medium are reflected not only in the shoes themselves but also in installations, photographs and videos, and include the positions of several Austrian artists and designers.

An exhibition by KUNST HAUS WIEN in cooperation with the

GRASSI Museum of Applied Art Leipzig

Idea and concept: Sabine Epple

Curator in Vienna: Brigitte Woischnik

Co-Curator in Vienna: Liza Snook, www.VirtualShoeMuseum.com

The Artists

Jacqueline de Abrew, ainsley-t (Stuart Thom), Mihai Albu, Sol Alonso, Irene Andessner, Amber Ambrose Aurèle, Ona B., Shani Bar, Riëlle Beekmans, René van den Berg, Marloes ten Bhömer, BLESS (Desiree Heiss & Ines Kaag), Janine van den Bosch, Guy Bourdin, May Y. Cheung Hoffman, Aki Choklat, David Collart, Suhandan Ozay Demirkan, Esther Dorhout Mees, Hester van Eeghen, Mariana Fantich & Dominic Young, Alexander und Christian Fielden, FINSK (Julia Lundsten), Friederike Gahrmann, Simon Grønlund, Zaha Hadid for Melissa und United Nude, Julian Hakes, Benjamin John Hall, Titia Hantzen Keuning, Kathrine Henneberg, Iris van Herpen for United Nude, Naomi Hertz, Bart Hess, Ivo Hofsté, Carolin Holzhuber, House of Ska (Ivanka Ska), Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Marita Huurinainen, (IN)DECOROUS Taste (Lauren Tennenbaum), INSA (Joe Insa) & Ruth Shaw, Peter Jakubik, Jan Jansen, Karin Janssen, Lauren Johnstone, Naim Josefi, Nici Jost, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kei Kagami, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Gudrun Kampl, Aleksandra Kielpinska, Kenneth Kirschner, Rachel de Kler, Dora Kloppenburg, Robert A.J. Koets, Rem D Koolhaas for United Nude, Anne Kroman, Jochen Kronier, Masaya Kushino, Janne Kyttanen, Chau Har Lee, Umberto Leon & Carol Lim for KENZO, Kobi Levi, LEW (Kim Leemans & Merel Wicker), Pinelopi Loizidou, Sahil Lungani, Eelko Moorer, Kunihiko Morinaga for ANREALAGE, Mette Mousten Søgaard, Toru Nagahama, Nat-2 (Sebastian Thies), Krista van der Niet, Sara Sofie Nørbo, Trine Ostenfeldt Møller, C.O. Paeffgen, Lola Pagola, Solène Panne, Minna Parikka, Caro Peirs, Omar Angel Perez, Tea Petrovic, Peter Popps, Remigijus & Egidijus Praspaliauskas, Marieka Ratsma, Maurice Regnaut, Pablo Reinoso, Roswitha van Rijn, Svenja Ritter, Rosa Mosa (Simone Springer & Yuji Mizobuchi), Florian Rutter, Safa Şahin, Ajoy Sahu, Elena Savchenko, Iris Schieferstein, Jeremy Scott for Adidas, Jurjen Semeijn, Deborah Sengl, SHOISE (Petra Högström & Matilda Maroti), Conny Smulders, Line Marie Sørensen, Liesel Swart, Gianlucca Tamburini for Conspiracy, Giulia Tanini, Bruno Tansens, Aydin Teker, Yukiko Terada, Deniz Terli, Kermit Tesoro, Elisabeth Thorsen, Gaspard Tiné-Berès, Tetsuya Uenobe, Federico Uribe, Jozefien Vandermarliere, Anna Vasof, Joyce Verhagen, Viktor & Rolf for H&M, Hester Vlamings, Isabel Vollrath, Rhonda Voo, Leanie van der Vyver, Julius Welby, Lie van der Werff, Matthias Winkler, Souzan Youssouf, Erwina Ziomkowska, Barbara Zucchi

AUPARK, Bratislava and Kosice Slovakia from 19 February to 2 March and from 4 March to 19 March.

"At Every Turn - Shoes in Art and Design"

Museum Villa Rot, Rot Germany from 27th October 2013 to 16th February 2014

Whether sneaker with synthetic fiber shank, whether glued high-heels with sequins, whether welted Western Boots or vulcanized shoes for children: In addition to a purely protective and fashion function shoes equally carry identity, socio-economic status, group membership or personality of the wearer. But they also hold a creative potential. In the hands of artists, architects and designers the fashionable everyday object turns into spectacular and unique autonomous sculpture. The trend for extravagant design creation has captured not only the shoe industry in the recent years. Frequently, international artists, architects and artists are inspired by the social and aesthetic aspects of the shoe. Between design and shape fantasy, mass consumption and erotic their objects, installations and video works open up a new perspective on the reality of the footwear.

The exhibition at the Museum Villa Rot presents an amazing topic: About 120 fascinating and bizarre design objects show shoes as architectures, socially critical opinions, physiological absurdities and objects that are not recognizable as footwear at first glance. At the same time the crossover with contemporary artistic positions grants a variety of formal aesthetic and cultural references.

Whether wearabale or unwearable: As an art object, as social criticism, as an ecological solution or as fetish, made out of high-tech and natural materials, wood, ceramics, glass, paper, leather or fabric, the shoe acquires an autonomous artistic statement beyond everyday use.

The exhibition at the Museum Villa Rot was developed in collaboration with Liza Snook (www.virtualshoemuseum.com, The Hague) and the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts (Leipzig).

The following artists, architects and designers are already chosen and invited to take part in the exhibition:

Mihai Albu / Sol Alonso / Irene Andessner / Shani Bar / Rielle Beekmans / Aart van Bezooyen / Marloes ten Bhomer / Götz Bury / May Y. Cheung Hoffman / Simsa Cho / Aki Choklat / Willie Cole / Fantich & Young /Alexander Fielden / Sylvie Fleury / Sakir Gökcebag / Tabitha Gwyn Osler / Zaha Hadid / Julian Hakes / Benjamin John Hall / Chau Har Lee / Iris van Herpen x United Nude / Bart Hess / Ivo Hofsté / Daisuke Horie / Marita Huurinainen / INSA / Peter Jakubik / Jan Jansen / Lauren Johnstone / Nici Jost / Kei Kagami / Kaarina Kaikkonen / Dora Kloppenburg / KUULA + JYLHA / Maskull Lasserre / Kobi Levi / Sahil Lungani / Eelko Moorer / Marie Oka / OLEK / Yu Otaki / Omar Angel Perez / Peter Popps / Marieka Ratsma / Pablo Reinoso / Winde Rienstra / Svenja Ritter / Manami Sato / Elena Savchenko / Iris Schieferstein / Paul Schietekat / Deborah Sengl / Shoise / Ivanka Ska / Bruno Tansens / (IN) DECOROUS TASTE / Yukiko Terada / Ainsley-t by Stuart Thom / Tetsuya Uenobe / Federico Uribe / Jozefien Vandermarliere / Anna Vasof / Nick Veasey / ILJA by Ilja Visser / Leanie van der Vyver / Julius Welby / Lie van der Werff / Souzan Youssouf & Naim Josefi / Erwina Ziomkowska

"STEPPING INTO THE LIMELIGHT"

Grassi museum, Leipzig Germany from 28th March to 29th September 2013

EXPERIMENTAL SHOE DESIGN

The special relationship which exists between people and shoes – and in particular women and shoes – is a popular source of fascination. The mystical attraction they exert is felt not only by the female of the species, but also to an increasing extent by designers and artists who are thinking ‘outside the shoebox’ and falling head over heels for footwear.

Never before has an exhibition showcased such an experimental, boundary-pushing concept of shoe design. There is nothing mainstream about the styles on show; rather, they are imaginative, bold and even provocative.

Some 150 pairs of shoes from a hundred or so international designers introduce the visitor to a wealth of styles, ranging from the architecturally inspired to creations of audacious irony and socially-motivated footwear.

With the assistance of Liza Snook (The Hague), who has been running a virtual shoe museum for years, the most exclusive shoes from all over the world have been brought together on loan for the exhibition. Most are one-off or limited edition designs.

Water imp has drowned in river by accident or intentionally!?

The flow of the river and the water-imp in bandages are on the mules.

I hope that people guess and tell their ideas why the water imp has drowned.

This is developed from my work "Water imp drowns in river" which was exhibited in "Made by Hand" at Art Tower Mito in 2009.

Both these designs and other 2 models, which are No. 1 and No. 10 from Human action series, are shown at Grassi museum.

Swan Shoe

The instep is a body of a black swan and the neck is rounding the heel from inside to outside.

This design was exhibited in "Local Shoemakers - from local to the world"

"Made by Hand Hanae Mori and young artists"

Hanae Mori Building at Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan from 5th to 18th September 2009, organized by HANAE MORI FOUNDATION, cooperated by Mito Arts Foundation, OBAYASHI CORPORATION and OBAYASHI REAL ESTATE CORPORATION and supported by The Asahi Shimbun.

Butterfly

Hatch out

"Made by Hand Hanae Mori and young artists"

［EXHIBITION CONCEPT］

Now the whole world is linked by information, the fashion’s presence has changed. Is the trend of fashion going towards modern art responding to the times rather than just “wearing,” ─ using the body as canvas, covering, pulling it over or trying it on. . . In this exhibition, up- and- coming gifted creators tackling new ways of expression, whom HANAE MORI FOUNDATION has provided with support and expertise, exhibit their creation by hand. “create,” “put on,” “wear,” “put over,” “draw,” “illuminate,” “weave,” etc.

Their works are environment- friendly, and will show you a picture of the future. “Let’s go Fashion!”

ART TOWER MITO gallery at Mito, Ibaraki, Japan from 11th July to 16th August 2009, organized by Mito Arts Foundation, HANAE MORI FOUNDATION and supported by The Asahi Shimbun.