Artist: MAMI KAWAI
Country: JAPAN
Title: Bloom
Size: 30 x 25 cm
Technique: artist`s own technique
Year: 2014
Biography:

Mami Kawai graduated from the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. She works with artistic textile and has participated in numerous exhibitions, including: the “Promemoria Tessuto” exhibition in Rome, Italy in 2007; the “Wovendiadies” exhibition in Florence, Italy in 2008; the “Z krosna do Krosna” International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial in the Craft Museum in Krosno, Poland in 2008, 2010 and 2012; the Biennale di case d’arte “segni di strada”, Curator – Gionanna Giusti, Manager of Tapestry at Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy in 2008; the “Futtou” exhibition in Florence, Italy in 2010; the “Mezzo minute di raccoglimento” exhibition in Milan, Italy in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014; the VI Biennial International Contemporaneo Textile Art “Air” in Veracruz, Mexico in 2011; the Sofia Paper Art Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2012 and 2013; the Japanese Contemporary Paper Art exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2012; the “Art al vent” exhibition in Gata de Gorgos, Spain in 2012 and 2013; and the International Fiber Art Biennale “From Lausanne to Beijing” in Beijing, China in 2012.

Motto: I used Japanese linen tape and Japanese paper yarn, to depict a silent bloom of fl owers