“The result of this artistic language, when applied to a Ressence watch, gives you the feeling of viewing something from another galaxy - a code, or signal, from another civilisation, beamed back to us from the future.”
-Benoît Mintiens
TYPE 9 IKEDA
過去、現在、そして未来が交わる場所
時間のパラドックス
一本の時計の中に、過去と未来が共存し、まるでパラドックスを生み出すかのようです。
― 池田さん
Ressenceの最もミニマルなデザイン、TYPE 9をキャンバスとして、池田さんの精緻な漆の重ね塗りと極細の螺鈿細工が、SF的なインスピレーションを纏った作品を生み出します。それはRessenceの回転するコンベックスダイアルによって、命を吹き込まれます。
遠い銀河からの残響
この芸術的な言語の結果は、Ressenceの時計に宿ることで、まるで別の銀河から何かを眺めているような感覚を与えてくれます。未来から送り返されてきた、異なる文明のコード、あるいは信号のように。」
― Benoît Mintiens
PRECISE AND ATMOSPHERIC
An object that reads like a message, not a decoration.
“What was very difficult was attaching raden (mother-of-pearl) to a curved surface,” Ikeda-san explains of the process where ultra-thin shell pieces were cut and placed on the watch components with extreme precision. “Raden is basically flat, and it breaks easily, like eggshell. So we soaked it and bent it gradually on rubber sheets, little by little, so that it would follow the curvature.”
With great virtuosity, Terumasa Ikeda transports lacquerware into the 21st century. He bridges the past and the present by employing the same raden technique and traditional materials used by earlier lacquer artists: urushi, hinoki wood, mother-of-pearl, and gold leaf. While respecting tradition, he incorporates digital technologies for tasks such as laser-cutting abalone shell and designing his compositions. The final design is meticulously placed by hand.
Reflecting the “Now” through ancient traditions
Ikeda san states : “It is difficult to employ the techniques and aesthetics passed down from the past to create an eternal beauty, but I believe that by reflecting the ‘now’ I am continuing the tradition.” [1]
1.”The Raden of Terumasa Ikeda,” Tokyo Ippodo Gallery, July 2021
IKEDA’S FUTURISTIC VESSELS BRIDGE THE WORLDS OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN LACQUER.
動き続けるダイアル
8本限定のTYPE 9 IKEは、時計に「施された」アートワークではありません。それはRessenceの動くダイアルのために、特別に生み出された作品です。
PRECISE AND ATMOSPHERIC
“The result of this artistic language, when applied to a Ressence watch, gives you the feeling of viewing something from another galaxy - a code, or signal, from another civilisation, beamed back to us from the future.”
-Benoît Mintiens