Mari Funaki Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1950 - d. 2010

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      • MARI FUNAKI 1950-2010 Container (2008) heat-coloured mild steel 21.3 x 40.5 x 8.5 cm
        Apr. 17, 2024

        MARI FUNAKI 1950-2010 Container (2008) heat-coloured mild steel 21.3 x 40.5 x 8.5 cm

        Est: $15,000 - $20,000

        MARI FUNAKI 1950-2010 Container (2008) heat-coloured mild steel 21.3 x 40.5 x 8.5 cm PROVENANCE Mari Funaki, Melbourne Gallery Funaki, Melbourne Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 19 November 2008 EXHIBITED Mari Funaki: Works 1992-2009, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 27 June - 18 October 2009, illustrated Mari Funaki: Objects, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 6 August - 24 October 2010, illustrated LITERATURE Robert Cook, Mari Funaki: Works 1992-2009, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2009, p. 16 (illustrated) Jane Devery, Mari Funaki: Objects, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2010, p. 15 (illustrated)

        Smith & Singer
      • MARI FUNAKI (1950-2010), Container 1997
        Oct. 12, 2022

        MARI FUNAKI (1950-2010), Container 1997

        Est: $10,000 - $15,000

        MARI FUNAKI (1950-2010) Container 1997 heat-coloured mild steel sculpture 19.5 x 27.5 x 7.0 cm unique

        Menzies
      • MARI FUNAKI, LIDDED CONTAINER, 1993
        Nov. 10, 2021

        MARI FUNAKI, LIDDED CONTAINER, 1993

        Est: $10,000 - $15,000

        MARI FUNAKI (1950 - 2010, Japanese/Australian) LIDDED CONTAINER, 1993 heat blackened mild steel 30.5 x 21.5 x 5.0 cm PROVENANCE Craft Victoria, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1994 EXHIBITED Reflection: Mari Funaki, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, 1994 (illus. in exhibition catalogue) ESSAY Although only practising for a relatively short period, Mari Funaki left an indelible impact on Australia's art world. Graduating from RMIT's gold and silversmithing degree in 1993, she quickly established herself as a unique and important figure through her studio practice and eponymous gallery. She created a cohesive oeuvre of jewellery and objects that are ‘formidable in their complexity and vital charge’.1 Early work encompassed small steel boxes, sculptural candle holders and jewellery, with Mari's first solo exhibition of 'containers for candles' at Melbourne's famous Kuni's restaurant in 1991 (where she also worked as a waitress). This early focus on vessels as a preferred form gave way in the late 1990s to jewellery, winning her the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize in Munich in 1996, and again in 1999. Mari returned to container-objects in the mid-2000s, with the final five years of her life seeing her most ambitious and celebrated works take shape. Lidded Container, 1993 is a key early work and a clear forerunner to her later, more major sculptural works. One of the highlights from Mari's first solo exhibition in a gallery, ‘Reflection’, 1994 held at Craft Victoria, it is instantly recognisable for its dynamic, expressive tension and its crisp articulation of form – her visual language here inspired, like much of her early work prior, by insects and plants. It is also one of the first pieces to use heat-blackened mild steel, a feature in all her non-jewellery objects after 2000 which she preferred for its thinness, strength and matte blackness. Mari Funaki explained her fascination with containers in 2005: ‘Packaging is one of the most recognisable characteristics in Japanese culture. The box is not just to contain something, but to present something, to treat it with respect and add an air of anticipation. This sense of presentation is the way in which I see my container.’2 1. Devery, J., Mari Funaki: Objects, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2010, p. 2 2. Mari Funaki, written statement for Object Gallery, 2005. KATIE SCOTT, DIRECTOR, GALLERY FUNAKI, MELBOURNE  © Mari Funaki, courtesy of Gallery Funaki, Melbourne 

        Deutscher and Hackett
      • MARI FUNAKI (1950-2010), Container 1997
        Aug. 09, 2018

        MARI FUNAKI (1950-2010), Container 1997

        Est: $12,000 - $16,000

        MARI FUNAKI (1950-2010), Container 1997 19.5 x 27.5 x 7.0 cm unique heat-coloured mild steel

        Menzies
      • A SQUARE GOLD RING BY MARI FUNAKI
        Jun. 05, 2018

        A SQUARE GOLD RING BY MARI FUNAKI

        Est: $300 - $500

        A SQUARE GOLD RING BY MARI FUNAKI The multi-layered ring crafted in 22ct gold, circa 1996, ring size K. OTHER NOTES: Gallery Funaki has headed the promotion of contemporary jewellery in Australia for 20 years.

        Leonard Joel
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