Lot 166: Niyoko Ikuta (1953 - )

Niyoko Ikuta (1953 - ) Collapse-2, 1987 Laminated sheet glass 29 x 28.5 x 35cm.

28.5 x 35cm.

Purchased directly from the artist in 1988 and thence by descent.

Niyoko Ikuta lives and works in Kyoto and has established herself as one of the leading figures in Japanese glass art of her generation since first exhibiting in the early 1980’s. She uses a glass-cutter to cut thin sheets of plate glass into the desired shape and each plate is then fixed using glue that disappears under ultraviolet light. Each piece is enlivened by the refection and transmission of light against and through the layers of glass. Ikuta’s work has entered many museum and private collections including The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT), the Victoria and Albert Museum (Museum no. FE.63-2009), the Musée de Design et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains, Lausanne and The Corning Museum of Glass, New York (accession no. 2007.6.5).