Motoko Maio, Folding Screen Artist: Moment by Moment - Heartbeat by Heartbeat

The artist has been reinventing the art of byobu (folding screens) for more than two decades, using traditional materials and techniques to express contemporary themes. Her screens for the festival will be made out of ancient kimonos.

• Feb 7 - 17, 2008
• Hall of Nations
• All Day

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Tokyo-born Motoko Maio has been reinventing the art of byobu (folding screens) since 1986. Using traditional Japanese materials and techniques - even reversible paper hinges - she creates lyrical variations on this ancient Japanese theme, resulting in contemporary works of "an art form with a thousand faces." Her folding screens for the festival will be made out of ancient kimonos.


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