Mineo Mizuno: Harmony
August 11 - November 11, 2019
11:00am - 5:00pm Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Closed on Wednesdays
11:00am - 8:00pm Fridays
10:00am - 7:00pm Saturdays and Sundays
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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.
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