Mineo Mizuno: Harmony
Mineo Mizuno: Harmony
For several years, Mineo Mizuno has lived on Fort Mountain Ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The intense beauty of the idyllic forest has inspired the artist’s latest body of work, which includes interventions across the property using ceramics, fallen trees, and manzanita shrubs removed to avert fires. For Harmony, he transplants elements of this immersive environment to Los Angeles. Tea House, like an earlier one he built on the ranch, is his interpretation of the traditional Japanese structure. Its open, organic form balances the seclusion needed to experience the tea ceremony with the powerful presence of the natural surroundings.
Around the tea house, Mizuno places a series of sculptures. Embedded in wood and on the ground, his ceramic water drops and tea bowls are painted with meditative repetitions of Japanese kanji such as yui (connect) and wa (harmony). These concepts reflect his ongoing interest in the communicative properties of trees and water.
This installation is organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Support for this installation is provided by Kelly Sutherlin McLeod and Steve McLeod, Marla and Jeffrey Michaels, Wendy Stark Morrissey, the Boardman Family Foundation, and Dallas Price-Van Breda and Bob Van Breda.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Lee Shaw, Kitzia and Richard Goodman, Jerry and Kathleen Grundhofer, Meredith and David Kaplan, and Jeffrey Saikhon, with generous annual funding from Terry and Lionel Bell, the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, Kevin J. Chen, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross, Mary and Daniel James, David Lloyd and Kimberly Steward, Kelsey Lee Offield, David Schwartz Foundation, Inc., Andy Song, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.
Image: Mineo Mizuno, Harmony, 2019, courtesy of Mineo Mizuno, installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Mineo Mizuno, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
- Aug 10, 2019–Feb 23, 2020
- Resnick Lawn
This installation is organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Support for this installation is provided by Kelly Sutherlin McLeod and Steve McLeod, Marla and Jeffrey Michaels, Wendy Stark Morrissey, the Boardman Family Foundation, and Dallas Price-Van Breda and Bob Van Breda.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Lee Shaw, Kitzia and Richard Goodman, Jerry and Kathleen Grundhofer, Meredith and David Kaplan, and Jeffrey Saikhon, with generous annual funding from Terry and Lionel Bell, the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, Kevin J. Chen, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross, Mary and Daniel James, David Lloyd and Kimberly Steward, Kelsey Lee Offield, David Schwartz Foundation, Inc., Andy Song, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.
Image: Mineo Mizuno, Harmony, 2019, courtesy of Mineo Mizuno, installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Mineo Mizuno, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA