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New Arrivals
COSMIC WONDER
THAT OLD MAGIC

Oct 24, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of “THAT OLD MAGIC” A|W collection at COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.

 

New Arrivals

Knitwear Collection

 

The yarn is made from Peruvian superfine alpaca using a special method of spinning it into loops on a special spinning machine called a trispin loop. Loose twisting of the yarn brings out the softness and lightness of fine alpaca, as well as the slippery feel and luster unique to alpaca. The collection includes a folk collar cardigan, a sweater, a vest dress.The Previus collection also be restocking Tasmanian wool cardigans, sweaters, knit pants, and other knitwear to keep you warm in the coming winter days.

 

Photography by Takashi Homma

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COSMIC WONDER
THAT OLD MAGIC at Elbereth

Oct 21, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to announce our new collection presentation at Elbereth, Kyoto.

 

A dolman sleeveless coat with shawl made of  Silk wool with a beautiful arabesque pattern in jacquard weave with Tango Chirimen from the Tango Peninsula. Glen check gathered shirt and shirtdress made of  a combination of merino wool, linen, and cotton. Cotton yarns are slowly spun on an 18th century English-style spinning machine developed in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Shetland wool dolman-sleeved coat made of Shetland sheep, native to the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Cashmere silk knitwear made of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is renowned for its excellent cashmere. This fine white cashmere is spun and dyed in Japan and blended with silk spun from white cashmere from Inner Mongolia. A alpaca loop knit folk collar cardigan and sweater made from Peruvian superfine alpaca using a special method of spinning it into loops on a special spinning machine called a trispin loop. Elein Fleiss “L’Hiver / Diana, Flore” exhibition can also be viewed in the same exhibition.

 

We are looking forward to your visit.

 

 

Exhibition period:

November 2 ー 10, 2024

*AAWAA will be present on November 2

 

Venue:

Elbereth

1-2 Ushiwaka-cho, Shichiku, Kita-ku, Kyoto

Open noon – 6:30pm

 

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Drawing by Stephen Sprott

Photography by Takashi Homma

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Elein Fleiss
L’Hiver / Diana, Flore

Oct 19, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to present Elein Fleiss’s exhibition “L’Hiver / Diana, Flore” at Elbereth, Kyoto.

 

Elein co-founded the magazine Purple, which she edited from the 1990s through the early 2000s, followed by Purple Journal from 2003 to 2007. Currently living in a country town in the southwest of France, she continues her engagement with writing and photography. For these exhibitions in Tokyo and Kyoto, she will showcase a new body of work, a combination of photographs and vintage clothing. To coincide with these exhibitions, a booklet entitled L’Hiver will be published. L’Hiver interweaves selections from the past two decades of her diary writing along with her photographic works. COSMIC WONDER’s “THAT OLD MAGIC” Autumn / Winter collection can also be viewed in the same exhibition.

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

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Exhibition period:

November 2 – November 10, 2024

*Elein Fleiss will be present on November 2

 

Place:

Elbereth

1-2 Ushiwaka-cho, Shichiku, Kita-ku, Kyoto

Open noon – 6:30pm

 

Related Exhibition:

“L’Hiver / Aurélie, Jean”at Vacant, Tokyo

October 25 – November 10, 2024

 

Co-host:

Vacant

 

Elein Fleiss

Elein Fleiss was born in April 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She now lives in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val after leaving Paris fifteen years ago. Since 1989 she has been organizing exhibitions, publishing magazines, directing super-8 films, taking lots of photographs, writing texts and picking wild herbs and flowers. Her photographs have been published in various magazines, in two books (One Star Press and Poetry of Sex), and have been exhibited in Japan as well as Europe.

 

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Photography by Elein Fleiss

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TOMORROW FIELD 2024 Fall

Oct 18, 2024 | News 

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AAWAA, the founder of COSMIC WONDER a contemporary artist and ,  is pleased to present a new work at Kyotango, Kyoto.

 

TAIZA Residence, which will open this fall, will feature a new spatial work by AAWAA using Taiza’s soil, and SEI TAIZA will feature a spatial work by AAWAA.

 

 

Exhibition period:

October 25 – November 17, 2024

Open 11am – 4pm *Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays

 

Venues:

TAIZA Residence

3332-2, Taiza, Tango-cho, Kyotango, Kyoto

 

SEI TAIZA, TAIZA Residence

3329, Taiza, Tango-cho, Kyotango, Kyoto

 

Organizers:

TOMORROW, Japan Arts Council, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

 

Supports:

Kyotango City, Kyotango City Board of Education, Kyoto by the Sea DMO

 

Official website:

https://tomorrow-jp.org/en/program/2024fall/

 

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Photography by Kim Ilda

Courtesy of TOMORROW FIELD

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New Arrivals
COSMIC WONDER
THAT OLD MAGIC

Oct 11, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of “THAT OLD MAGIC” A|W collection at COSMIC WONDER Online Shop.

 

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The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is renowned for its excellent cashmere. This fine white cashmere is spun and dyed in Japan and blended with silk. The wholegarment knitting process provides excellent comfort. Cashmere silk can be worn in all seasons. The collection includes a sweater, a sweater dress, and tenugui. 

 

Shetland sheep, native to the Shetland Islands of Scotland, are nurtured in a harsh environment, resulting in a wool with a rustic look, soft touch, and great warmth. Shetland wool is slowly spun on an 18th century English-style spinning machine developed in the early Industrial Revolution, and then woven into a herringbone pattern on shuttle looms powered by hand weaving principles.

The collection includes a dolman sleeve coat.

 

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Photography by Takashi Homma

 

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Saturday, September 28

Sep 27, 2024 | News 

 

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Center for COSMIC WONDER will be open for the last day on Saturday, September 28.

The melody of Deer Revenge by Takashi Homma, with which we have been familiar for a long time, will echo in the Center.

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

Venue:

Center for COSMIC WONDER

5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

+81 (0)3 5774 6866

Open noon – 6pm

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New Arrivals
COSMIC WONDER
THAT OLD MAGIC

Sep 01, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of “THAT OLD MAGIC” A|W collection on Saturday, September 7 at Center for COSMIC WONDER.

 

Shetland sheep, native to the Shetland Islands of Scotland, are nurtured in a harsh environment, resulting in a wool with a rustic look, soft touch, and great warmth. Shetland wool is slowly spun on an 18th century English-style spinning machine developed in the early Industrial Revolution, and then woven into a herringbone pattern on shuttle looms powered by hand weaving principles.

The collection includes a dolman sleeve coat and vest, winter folk pants, and a tasuki sash bag.

 

The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is renowned for its excellent cashmere. This fine white cashmere is spun and dyed in Japan and blended with silk. The wholegarment knitting process provides excellent comfort. Cashmere silk can be worn in all seasons. The collection includes a sweater, a sweater dress, and tenugui. 

 

Also featured will be a selection of Light & Will’s hand basket and picnic basket made of Wild grapevine, hand basket made of Japanese wingnut tree and a variety of beautiful handcrafted baskets.

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

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Photography: Takashi Homma

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Takashi Ichikawa
Tools for an Imaginary People
The Liberation of Tea

Aug 20, 2024 | Event, News 

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The “Tea wheel” was created to bring the world of tea outdoors. My solo exhibition at the Center for COSMIC WONDER began with an exhibition of the tea wheel. Later, as I began to develop the tools of the “tea place”, I turned my attention to the “human use of plants” with a focus on tea. I began to make tea from the leaves or stems of plants other than the tea tree, wild plant tea, medicinal herb tea, mountain tea, bancha, and the teas of ethnic minorities. From drying, rubbing, and frying plants to roasting, baking, frying, steaming, fermenting, boiling, and mixing, I have studied these processes and have developed containers, utensils and tools for feeling, experimenting, and playing with the power of plants. You could say that these are playful tea utensils. In addition to receiving the power of plants through the mouth, we can also receive it through our eyes, ears, nose, and skin. Please enjoy working with these tools, from earthenware bottles to pots and utensils for roasting and boiling tea, distilling vessels, and wood-fired kilns.

 

Takashi Ichikawa

 

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We are pleased to present Takashi Ichikawa’s exhibition, “Tools for an Imaginary People: The Liberation of Tea”, at the Center for COSMIC WONDER. This exhibition, the eighth in a series, will bring together all of the tea utensils he has exhibited to date, as well as new works born from his experiences in Guizhou, China, where he visited this past June. Ichikawa has long been experimenting with tea and, at the same time, contemplating the concept of tea itself. On the first and second days of the exhibition, he will hold a wild-grass tea ceremony in collaboration with yasousora, an organization that promotes the infinite power of wild grass. We look forward to your visit.

 

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Exhibition period:

September 20 – September 24, 2024

* Fri, 20th – Sat, 21st: by appointment only and only workshop participants are allowed to visit the Center for COSMIC WONDER. (Visitors are always welcome to come to the Center for COSMIC WONDER to view the garments.)

 

*Numbered tickets will be distributed at the entrance of the venue from 10:30 a.m. on the day of your visit on Sunday, the 22nd. 12 people per hour will be allotted. Please note that if the number of visitors reaches the limit on the day of the workshop, admission will be denied even if you stand in line.

 

*From Monday, 23rd (national holiday), visitors can freely come to the Center for COSMIC WONDER without reservations. Please note that admission will be restricted during busy times.

 

Venue:

Center for COSMIC WONDER

5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

  1. +81 (0)3 5774 6866

Open noon – 6pm

 

 

 Full Booked, Thank you.

 

Opening Event:

yasousora with Takashi Ichikawa “nono tea ceremony”

This will be our first collaborative tea ceremony.

 

Message from yasousora

Wildflowers, full of life energy, are right under our feet.

Through light, water, and fire, we take in the wildflowers as drops of life energy.

Demonstration of the process of making sora-tea and stories about wildflowers.

Using Takashi Ichikawa’s furnace and tea utensils, each person will make a cup of nono-tea.(wildflower tea)

 

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I will prepare something that I would like you to drink at this time, something that I feel is interesting. I intend to work with ethnic minority teas and various materials and utensils

 

Friday, September 20

noon – 1:30 pm

 

Friday, September 20

3 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Saturday, September 21

noon – 1:30 pm

 

Saturday, September 21

3 pm – 5:30 pm

 

yasousora / Gendou Sawamura and Hina Sawamura

Learning from grasses about how people and grasses can thrive together.

Based in Fukuoka, Japan, they are active in communicating the life energy of wild grasses through wild teas.

 

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Top of photo : Lotus tea and white tea in peach blossoms floating in an earthenware lotus pond

Bottom of photo : Ichikawa roasting yasousora‘s tea in an earthenware pot

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Notice of Closing of Center for COSMIC WONDER

Aug 08, 2024 | News 

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Center for COSMIC WONDER in Minami Aoyama will close its doors on September 28.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the beautiful moments we have shared with you in this space dedicated to presenting COSMIC WONDER’s activities since 2007.

 

Our garments will continue to be available in select shops around the world and through the COSMIC WONDER online store.

 

The Center for COSMIC WONDER’s schedule prior to closing includes a screening and performance of Aki Goto’s “Follower” on August 10 and the launch of a new collection of Scottish Shetland wool and cashmere silk from “THAT OLD MAGIC’s” fall/winter collection on September 7. We will also present the annual solo exhibition of Takashi Ichikawa starting September 20.

 

We sincerely look forward to your visit.

 

August 8, 2024

COSMIC WONDER

 

 

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New Arrivals
COSMIC WONDER
THAT OLD MAGIC

Jul 29, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of “THAT OLD MAGIC” A|W collection on Saturday, August 3 at Center for COSMIC WONDER.

 

Silk wool with a beautiful arabesque pattern in jacquard weave with Tango Chirimen from the Tango Peninsula. The collection includes a dolman sleeve coat with shawl, folk pants, a shoulder bag, and a folk cap. 

This glen check is a combination of merino wool, linen, and cotton.

 

Cotton yarns are slowly spun on an 18th century English-style spinning machine developed in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. The glen check is woven on a shuttle loom modeled on the principles of hand-weaving.  The collection includes an elegant gathered shirt and shirtdress, wrapped pants with an elastic hem, an old-fashioned large dolman sleeve dress, and a folk cap.

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

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Photography: Takashi Homma

 

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Aki Goto
Follower
Video screening & Performance

Jul 15, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to present Aki Goto “Follower”, a video screening and performance. “Follower” is a diary-like one-minute short video project started in 2019, documenting the transitions of family, environment, time and one’s self. It is an activity that encompasses all thoughts, emotions and universal elements of the everyday. The project will consist of two videos re-edited for this occasion, as well as a collaboration with the artist Hanayo in the first part, and a performance by the Goto in the second part. You will witness a space filled with organic energy that will forever expand.

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

 

Date:

Saturday, August 10

Part 1 with Hanayo: 1pm ー 2 pm | Admission: 1,500 JPY

Part 2: 4pm ー 5pm | Admission: 1,000 JPY

 

Reservations required

Please send your name, e-mail address, phone number, and preferred program (Part 1 or Part 2 or both) to the e-mail address below. We will reply only to those who are able to join.

event[a]cosmicwonder.com

*Please re-type [a].

 

Venue:

Center for COSMIC WONDER

5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866

Open noon – 6pm

 

INSTAGRAM: @a3igo1o

 

Aki Goto

Aki Goto is a multimedia artist mainly working in video, installation and sound these days. Originally from Japan, textile art brought Goto to NYC in 2009. It was during this time that Goto worked as an artist assistant for Susan Cianciolo. It was an awakening for her of what textile art can do, and the different contexts in which it could function. Not long after, Goto relocated to upstate NY, where the natural world became an integral element in her work. It was there where her art and life finally blended as one. During the early period of 2020, Goto made the most of a Covid-era lockdown by filming her children in acutely edited short videos to share on social media and now there are over 300. Goto has exhibited her work at EUROPA, CLEARING, Nonaka Hill Gallery, Starr Suites, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz NY, etc. She is exhibiting a video installation at Museum of Gaspe (CA) this July – September.

Goto also performs alongside Masami Tomihisa as Masaaki, an avant-garde pop music unit.

 

Hanayo

She studied in Paris while majoring in sculpture at Tamagawa University College of Arts. In 1989, soon after her return from Paris, Hanayo began training as a geisha apprentice in Mukojima. She retired from the geisha world in 1995 and moved to the UK in 1995. Currently based in Berlin and Tokyo, she has made works throughout her career as a photographer, geisha, musician, and model. Her photographs and collages capture her daily life in a dreamlike light that colors her surroundings. She has also exhibited installations, in which music and three-dimensional elements are added to her collages and photographs. She performs frequently and has participated in numerous group and international exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Her solo exhibitions include “utsushiyumekuni”, PARCO GALLERY (Tokyo, 2000); “hanayo”, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2002); “hanayo III” Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film (Tokyo, 2017). Her publications include Hanayome (Shinchosha, 1996); MAGMA (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2008); berlin (Getsuyosha, 2013); Tenko (Case Publishing, 2016); Hanayo’s Underworld: Half a Century (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2021). Her music albums include wooden veil (dekorder, 2009); Gift (DHR Geist, 2000). 

 

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New Arrivals
COSMIC WONDER
THAT OLD MAGIC

Jun 28, 2024 | News 

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We are pleased to announce the new arrivals of “THAT OLD MAGIC” A|W collection on Saturday, July 6 at Center for COSMIC WONDER.

 

Linen-wool twill weave looks like ancient cloth. The collection includes a big square top, a circle patterned dress, wrapped pants, and farmer dress.

Made from interwoven cotton and cashmere. The collection includes a long sleeve t-shirt and a dolman sleeve t-shirt dress.

 

A|W 2024 COSMIC WONDER「THAT OLD MAGIC」

 

We look forward to your visit.

 

Photography: Takashi Homma

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Stephen Sprott
World Cinema

May 27, 2024 | COSMIC WONDER Free Press 

  For a very long time I’ve been pickpocketing very short bits of film. I look for shots that are a bit free-floating, slightly disconnected from the rest of the story, what one calls ‘cutaway’ shots. That’s what they are asking for, to be cut out, set loose. And now that I have lots and lots of them, it’s interesting to see how they behave with one another. One can splice them together in any number of ways and find that they are quite expressive. Cutaway shots are peripheral by nature. They suggest the environment in which the story takes place and therefore consist largely of streets, …[Read more]

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