The "Vietnam - Japan Lacquer Road" project aims to build a long-term cooperation platform between Vietnamese lacquer art and Wajima-nuri - one of Japan's long and typical lacquer traditions.
Instead of just introducing two handicraft heritages in parallel, the project will create a dialogue space, where artists, artisans, researchers and communities of the two countries share knowledge, practices and new approaches to lacquer materials in the contemporary context.
Through research programs, creative stays, exhibitions and educational activities, the project wishes to contribute to preserving traditional knowledge while opening up new creative possibilities for the next generation.
Vietnam and Japan both possess unique lacquer traditions, formed over many centuries with distinct systems of materials, techniques and aesthetic languages. At the same time, before the changes of modern society, both are also facing many common challenges, such as breakdowns in the process of craft transmission, changes in the consumer market and the need to find new forms of expression.
Starting from those intersections, this project is formed as a long-term cooperation platform to promote professional exchange, research and creativity between the two lacquer communities, and at the same time spread the cultural values of traditional handicrafts to the general public.
Mr. Uchiyama Ken - Executive Officer, in charge of IDEAL Company, TAKI Corporation Joint Stock Company said: "We want to apply the planning capacity and design perspective accumulated in the advertising - communication field to creating the future of traditional crafts and social values. Hopefully, the dialogue between the two lacquer cultures of Vietnam and Japan will become a "path" connecting industry and aesthetics to future generations".
Accordingly, activities will take place in the framework of the project including: Exchange of Vietnamese - Japanese artisans and artists; Joint creation - mobile exhibition in Hanoi and Japan; Academic cooperation - joint research on traditional knowledge inheritance; Education - human resource training with programs for students in coordination with universities and educational institutions, mentoring (mentoring) for young artists and artisans...
