Ritsue Mishima
1962 Born in Kyoto, Japan
1982 Stylist for an advertising company
1989 Moves to Venice
1996 Dedicates to glass art
2001 Won the Giorgio Armani Award, Sotheby's, London
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Ritsue Mishima

The Japanese-Italian artist Ritsue Mishima is a unique figure in the art of contemporary Venetian glass. The autodidact uses exclusively colourless glass and her work stands as a sampler of old glass-blowing and innovative decorating techniques. Mishima finds inspiration in nature, in the universe and the Venice Lagoon with its enchanting light. The gleaming scales of a fish, minuscule sea creatures seen through a microscope, ominous meteorites and starry skies – these are topics that moves her. “A Mishima object is not of this world and does not lend itself to what we tend to think of as useful functions”, the art critic Rob Smolders writes.

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  • Germany
      • Brutto Gusto

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        Address Wielandstraße 34
        10629 Berlin
        Germany
        Phone +49 (30) 3087 4646
        Email fine_arts@bruttogusto.com
        Times Monday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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