Exhibition: Freshness of New Season in Japanese arts
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Thursday7 January - Sunday31 January 2010
We are able to encounter Japanese traditional beauty frequently in Japan.
As the word 'shinshyun' used to in New Year Season in Japan meaning 'new spring season', January is the month to prepare for the coming new blossom season in Spring.
This month, we will exhibit works using Japanese traditional material such as gold and silver leaves, japanese ink, ceramic, textile and lacquer ware.
Please discover Japanese fresh beauty in works by artists such as Kaori Tanaka and Kazuko Saeki.
For more information on the artist's profile and works, please kindly check the artist page linked below.
As the word 'shinshyun' used to in New Year Season in Japan meaning 'new spring season', January is the month to prepare for the coming new blossom season in Spring.
This month, we will exhibit works using Japanese traditional material such as gold and silver leaves, japanese ink, ceramic, textile and lacquer ware.
Please discover Japanese fresh beauty in works by artists such as Kaori Tanaka and Kazuko Saeki.
For more information on the artist's profile and works, please kindly check the artist page linked below.
| Hours | 11:00 - 19:00 (closed on Mondays) |
Featured Artists
Takako Azami
Azami is taken with the leaves and foliage of trees such as pines and plum, often of her own garden. She uses ink to draw oval dots, large and small, and lines on the backside of absorbent hemp paper. She allows the ink to bleed through to the front of the other side of the paper, generating a multi-layered effect and the depth to the plane. Born by chance, this method has been employed since 2000', and she has created many pieces slightly different from one another. Recently she introduces use of color mainly blue color. Her style can be read as the successor of Japanese ink painting Suibokuga, but at the same time she is surely one of the artists who belong to the development of Western abstraction.
Miyuki Takenaka
Takenaka was drawing Seeds Series on canvas with water color which anticipates the sprouting. Then another method of applying resin between layers of acrylic board was introduced to be mingled with the drawing. These works of Takenaka reflects light and cast its shadow on white base panel, the shadow making different impression in different moments in time along with the soft blur made by water colors, and are well received in the broader context. In 2013, she challenged a new work using film which demonstrated something invisible by giving the film colour by exposure at arbitrary lengths of time.Resin in between layers of acrylic plates reflects light and cast its shadow on white base panel. The shadows makes different impression in different moments in time along with the soft blur made by water colors.