Janus_duality for new era, new design

On the occasion of Fuorisalone del Mobile in Milan - Milan Design Week, one of the most important and prestigious international events dedicated to design and furniture, the Japanese company YASUTA Veneered Surfaces & Design presents for the first time in Italy a project in which the YASUTA Veneered Surfaces & Design creations dialogues with the art of Shuhei Matsuyama.

On display some large-format paintings made specifically for the event by Master Shuhei Matsuyama are presented together with the creations produced by YASUTA Veneered Surfaces & Design enhancing them and highlighting the quality and beauty of the natural wood veneers as material used and worked by the company.

Living in such a polarized world, we are in a phase of restless transition. It is also a crossing of consciousness of inside and outside as well as time and space. Known for craftmanship of wood veneer, YASUTA Veneered Surfaces & Design has shared in a creative experience with artist Shuhei Matsuyama, expressing the beauty of internal approach for design in new era.

Janus, one of the most ancient and important deities of the Roman religion, is the god of the beginnings and is usually represented with two faces because he can look at the future and the past. Giano presumably tells us a necessity for human prayer, or enlightenment to simultaneously and earnestly embrace the duality such as past and future, heaven and earth, and nature and art and the contrasts of emotions such as joy and sorrow and love and hate.

The exhibition is open from 8 to 14 April with Opening party on Monday 8 April from 6 pm to 8.30 pm; Breakfast reception on Friday 12 April from 9.30 am to 11 am.

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