Japanese bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV is one of Japan’s leading bamboo artists, the fourth artist in a lineage of bamboo basket makers from Sakai in Osaka prefecture. Like the generations before him, he weaves slender strips of bamboo into exquisite flower baskets and abstract sculptures, but he has also pushed the boundaries of basket weaving to create large-scale sculptures and installations. His work has won major awards in Japan and overseas and has been shown in museums and art spaces around the world.

To mark the opening of his exciting new exhibition LIFE CYCLES: A Bamboo Exploration with Tanabe Chikuunsai IV at JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles, he will give a talk about his artistic philosophy and practice and demonstrate some of the techniques he uses to prepare bamboo and weave it into monumental structures. The presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A. (The talk will be recorded and made available on this page.)