HIROKO KOSHINO

KH Gallery Ginza will hold the exhibition entitled “小篠弘子 × HIROKO KOSHINO – Cycle of Art and Design –”. The career of the fashion designer Hiroko Koshino started when the 18-year-old Hiroko Koshino entered the world of design while dreaming of becoming a painter. Since she found the commonality between fashion drawings and paintings, she worked at the forefront of the fashion industry as a designer. This exhibition will shed light on some of her fashion creations, selected from her huge collection, and present the close connection between art and design.
Clothes made with the original design textile, paintings that feature the collage of that textile, clothes with prints of these paintings… Such process of developing creations in different forms will be presented in installations using large frames. The exhibition will also display digital-made textiles that reproduced Koshino’s hand-drawn paintings, as well as rare clothes that she directly painted. Giclée fashion drawings, the starting point of clothes making, will be sold too. 
Plane and solid, static and dynamic, analog and digital—please enjoy the endless cycle of art and design that connects different elements and continues to expand without limit.

Monday, January 21 – Saturday, March 16, 2019    10:30 am – 7:00 pm
Closed: Sunday, January 27; Sunday, February 3; Sunday, February 17; Sunday, March 3

Hiroko Koshino has been designing some of the costumes for the vocal group LE VELVETS. New costumes are currently worn since the summer live tour. Koshino also designed their 10th anniversary pamphlet. Please enjoy the costumes along with the beautiful harmony of the four members.

Thanks to the popularity of the first appearance, Hiroko Koshino will appear again on the TV program “Jinsei ga Kawaru Ippunkan no Fukaii Hanashi”. This time the program will focus on the Tokyo Collection and follow her behind the stage. In the studio, the guests will wear Hiroko Koshino’s latest collection. Please watch the program.
 
Program: Jinsei ga Kawaru Ippunkan no Fukaii Hanashi Nijikan Special
 
Date: Monday, December 3, 2018  9:00 pm – 10:54 pm
 
TV station: Nippon TV

KH Gallery Ashiya will hold the exhibition entitled “Dishes by Hiroko Koshino” to present dishes Koshino created during various encounters. Koshino met with her long-time artist friends in traditional pottery production areas and displayed her unique sense of forms and colors and painting methods. Under the eleventh Ohi Chozaemon, the Ohi pottery maker in Kanazawa, Koshino created a series of dishes cut out and formed from flat clay as if she was making clothes. She also collaborated with Susumu Notomi, the Hagi pottery maker, by drawing colorful line art on his blue dishes called “Aohagi”.
Moreover, Koshino developed her own products, designing the ink painting-based “Sumi-no-Toki” series in collaboration with the ceramic ware manufacturer Nikko Company in 2017. In summer 2018, she decorated the Echizen lacquerware, the traditional industry in Sabae, with gold and silver paints. Through these works, Koshino aims to incorporate art in everyday lives.
 
This exhibition will feature various dishes along with paintings to showcase Koshino’s free, unconventional spirit. Please enjoy the encounter between Japan’s traditional culture and senses of modernity.
 
Cooperation:
The eleventh Ohi Chozaemon (Toshio Ohi) / Ohi pottery
Susumu Notomi / Hagi pottery
Echizen Lacquerware Cooperative / Echizen lacquerware
Nikko Company / Western-style dish “Sumi-no-Toki” series

Sunday, November 11, 2018 – Sunday, February 10, 2019　11:00 am. – 4:00 pm.
Closed: Wednesdays / Tuesday, December 25 – Saturday, January 12 / during other events
 
Open upon reservation: Please fill the Reservation Form on the “ASHIYA GALLERY” page on this website and make a reservation.
Reservation is not required on Sundays.

Besides being a fashion designer for over 60 years, Hiroko Koshino has been active as an artist in recent years. She will hold her first personal exhibition in New York, at the WhiteBox art space. Please come visit if you are in New York.
 
Exhibition “Hiroko Koshino: A Touch of Bauhaus” CURATED BY KYOKO SATO
Period: Thursday, November 1 – Saturday, December 1, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, November 1  6 pm – 8 pm
Venue: WhiteBox Gallery
       329 Broome Street
       (Between Bowery and Chrystie)
       New York, NY 10002
       Tel: 212-714-2347
http://whiteboxnyc.org/about/location-and-hours/<http://whiteboxnyc.org/about/location-and-hours/
 
 
*Hiroko Koshino will give a lecture at Feldman C501, Fashion Institute of Technology, from 11 am to noon on Thursday, November 1. If you wish to attend, please contact kyunghee_pyun@fitnyc.edu for reservation.
 

Special thanks to The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Nao Takekoshi.