HOLA
design : Kazuo Kawasaki
A masterpiece designed in 1988, “HOLA” was reissued to commemorate the “artificial heart : Kazuo Kawasaki Exhibition” held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in 2006.
［designer’s message]
This is not a clock, this is like a clock.
“to meet the goddess of time”
Time was once of the blessings the heavens bestowed on people. I wonder if it is impossible for us to look up to the heavens again and recover the heavens’ blessing.
Let’s watch the heavenly bodies’ movements and become free from the concept of time.
If we watch the heavenly bodies’ movements, and the light and shade caused by them, we will be reminded that we are living on earth, and an element of space.
When we realize time is also an element of space, a clock which has been only a meter of time will become something related to space, or an apostle of HOLA.
When we can understand our ancestors’ belief in HOLA and see HOLA’s dimple.
PERMANENT COLLECTION / Cooper-Hewitt MUSEUM
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Design（U.S.A）
Good Design Long Life Design Award 2000（Japan）
HOLA WH
white
HOLA BK
black
HOLA
- Size
- w200 × h200 × d37mm
- Weight
- 370g
- Material
- ABS resin, glass
Kazuo Kawasaki
Born in 1949, Fukui prefecture. Pisces, blood type B, ambidextrous. He focuses on various aspects of design as a design director, from industrial and product design to traditional crafts, glasses, computers, robots, nuclear energy, artificial organs, and outer space. He brings topology to space theory through his works, the so-called “Relativity of language and figures.” He has been a key member of various organizations, including an administrative agency, and has served as president of the Good Design Award jury. He has won many prizes both at home and abroad. Also, a number of the world’s famous museums, such as The Museum of Modern Art, house his permanent collections and display designs. He was twice selected as one of “100 Japanese people respected in the world” in “Newsweek Japanese version.” He is an advocate of the “Peace-Keeping Design (PKD)” project.
http://www.kazuokawasaki.jp/