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YUKI FERDINANSEN
Denmark
Yuki Ferdinansen is a Japanese silversmith and metal chaser based in Denmark.
‘Throughout my life in Denmark and in Danish culture, I see Japan through a Danish filter. I want to sense these vastly different cultures and allow them to re-arrange naturally and be expressed. My inspiration always comes from nature, expressed through the Fibonacci spiral systematic.
With my hammer, with its small bumps I form a plate of silver; this solid piece gets a floating look simultaneously with flexibility. It has durability, weight, light, reflection, contrast, and silver’s unique brilliance. Silver’s gloss is hot and cold simultaneously, it is this gloss and disposition that is the charm of working with silver.
With a fusion of traditional Japanese artisan technique Arare and Danish modern design in mind, I want to create my works. I enjoy every stroke and every blade is followed by step with the foot. Every sound of the rhythm of “my hammer’s dance” I feel the whole of my body and enjoy within my soul.
This is work that never suffers from fatigue.’
Honored to have this artist at RVNHUS thanks to a collaboration with Galleri Montan.
YUKI FERDINANSEN at the Love Fish Love Grand Opening Exhibition
‘A subtle and nuanced play of light and shadow also emerges on the textured surfaces of the vessels, complemented by a semi-matte, whitened silvery finish achieved through an acid solution bath. Ferdinandsen describes her process in this way,“Every sound in the rhythm of my ‘hammer’s dance’ I feel in the whole of my body and enjoy within my soul. This is work that never suffers from fatigue.”
Ferdinandsen studied at the Saga Junior College of Art, and the Tsuibu Metal Art School, both in Kyoto, Japan. She has exhibited throughout Japan, Scandinavia and Europe, and her work has been placed in significant private and public collections including the Danish Design Museum, Copenhagen, and The National Museum, Stockholm. She was the recipient of the 2015 Schoonhoven Silver Award, and has been recognized with numerous other awards and grants over the course of the past two decades.’
– Hostler Burrows under Artist Yuki Ferdinandsen
YUKI FERDINANSEN
