"Tedare" is a Japanese term meaning "skilled", "dexterous." Especially in the occasions requiring extremely expert or special skills resulted from repeated practice. As for art works that last through times and survive from history, "skillfulness" is thought of as one of the vital factors. Sometimes, viewers feel touched for no reason by surprises like "How to make art works like this?" while confronting arts. It is the pure but powerful impression and the joy brought the form the idea of “Tedare”, and the concept of "Tedare" is strongly firmed by the concept called "Koh-jutsu" which is mentioned below.

However, what this exhibition intend to convey is not simply about surprises, but to rediscover and reconfirm the delicacy-based aesthetic feelings cultivated in Japanese culture for long, to merge the aesthetic feelings with contemporary texture, and to rise the new phase of representation in art.

The concept of "Koh-jutsu"

Speaking of art history in Japan, there are history of Japanese craft that has been descended from old times, art history that is artificially built in Meiji Restoration, and history of contemporary art that is installed in Japan by force. Each develops in parallel but also tearing up each other obscurely meanwhile.

With regard to the background of the speedy economic growth in Asia these days, contemporary arts turns out to be a target of consumption and opportunism, and furthermore results in easy concepts and poor quality. It is truly a pity that the original elegancy of art we should be proud of has been deteriorated.

Moreover, in the situation of placing Japanese art under western-European value, Japanese style of physically delicacy and dexterousness do not receive equally rating, but encounter disregards for worse. The terms such as “skillful” and “crafted” gradually became terms containing depreciation.

This sense of crisis, along with the unenlightened feelings and doubts, make “Kohjutsu” try to display a possibility of creating new values against the above by introducing arts that is fertilized by Japanese style “skills”. Apart from the perspective of exoticism, but by presenting artists who feature the Japanese characteristic that art-creating process is a road of spiritual practice, this exhibition holds the vision to capture a concrete picture of future Japanese arts.