In the Munich Gallery «Kunstbau», which is part of the museum Lenbahhaus, opened the second exhibition «Favorites». The first was in 2005, and none but he did not know whether there would be continued. But the huge success of the exhibition - as well as each of its members individually - in subsequent years for the German and international art scene persuaded the leadership to make Lenbahhausa «Favorites-2».

Munich 15 young artists selected by curators Lenbahhausa on a set of criteria. Gallery, located in an underground tunnel, it becomes a kind of accelerator - part of its artists in the same capacity, but fell slightly in another.

This time the list of 15 elected representatives, I found the names of two friends - Motoko Dobasi and Sebastian Deysi. Motoko was born naturally, in Japan, lives in Munich, although recently it is increasingly in Berlin.

Sebastian is just moved to Berlin, a native of London, recalls in general are reluctant to.

From Motoko Dobasi, on which, or, more precisely, which I'll talk in this text, I met two years ago at the annual exhibition at the Academy.

I remember that going up the corridor and suddenly saw that he turned into something else - like a cave, grotto ... But not so, as happens in, say, the castle Ludwig, no, here it is done as the case in general, I went into the audience, the door which was also now part of rock art ... The first thing I saw there were even no picture, but a large square of thin silver, frequent bars. In a cage someone was. I came closer and saw in the window - as in the cash register - a girl, like a white rabbit with black bang ... That concentrated ate carrots. She nodded to me, I wanted her to enjoy your meal, and went in a circle - to watch her work. I will not describe their words - it is to anything, because most of them can be seen here here ; say only that one of the paintings exhibited there led me to a standstill. I could not understand what kind of equipment, painting, or all, this is done on the computer ... I asked about this girl, she has deferred his carrots, vyporhnula of cells and has been around a little work, where I'm stuck. There was some midnight sun over the city, in the black sky ...

«This is just a picture, - said the girl - I do not do this, just photographed and took in the frame».

«There can be no», - I said.

But Motoko convinced me that maybe what to watch, sometimes not such a look ...

From the memories and I began our conversation after the exhibition «Favorites», which opens the work Motoko - its wall paintings greets the visitor at the entrance to the tunnel. The exhibition will continue until September Lenbahhause.

- ... wanted to say that the picture the sun as it facilitated my subsequent passages, which it does business, and consciousness, which contemplate your work. Transitions from normal reality to a fantastic and back ... Do you remember what I say photos?

- Of course.

- Can you at least some classified themselves as to some style in the direction of modern art?

- It is difficult.

- About you say that you are in the works of a harmonious combination of Japanese and European traditions. By the way, you finished it, not only Munich but also the Tokyo Academy of Arts?

- It is true.

- At the same time it seems to me that won the Eastern tradition, the influence of an old Japanese painting - with one hand. On the other - the tide of cyberspace, which is too early for us to associate with Japan ...

- The thing is that in his works, I just try to be sincere. That's all. The determining motive for my paintings are my childhood memories ... At the same time, I believe that in many European paintings, and ...

- sorry, interrupting, but I think my mp3 voice recorder with built-disconnect. Although he was charged ... I can not see, or is it because of the bright sun, the screen goes ... Do you see anything?

- Wait, wait ... And where is the screen?

- Yes, behold, the black shell and has a screen.

- Yes? Such are-e-emny ... But I see little bukvochki, so if I'm so close (closes the palms mp3), look.

- Yes, now, and I vaguely see flickers blue bukvochki, mp3 works. So, your pictures are based on your personal experiences, memories ...

- Yes, it is something like a diary.

- However, such a diary - in the form of paintings, which are sometimes quite abstract, but also as a figurative, reminiscent of ... Maybe textbook illustrations of the topologies ... This diary seems diary inoplanetyanki!

- (cmeetsya).

- In any case, it is not easy, it is encrypted, этакий kriptodnevnik ... Also, sometimes it seems, looking at your picture, which has already seen it, but no dreams ... What are the projection of the so-forgotten dreams that something like snovidcheskogo deja vu, yes?

- My paintings mainly - this is in fact banal landscapes. Of course, there are also many symbolic.

- You can decrypt at least a few characters?

- No, I do not want to explain that it means something, and then - this ... I will simply say that everything is connected with my mental state. And, some landscapes that I see throughout their lives again and again, they pursued me, and then I paint them ... Many pictures are born out of ... I would describe this way: you are in the mountains and you feel that you now fly air even further. Of course, this comes from childhood, of which I spent high in the mountains.

- What's in Japan?

- Yes. Imagine: in Japan a lot of gore!

- I mean, you lived in the mountains?

- No, I have constantly lived in a city where I was born - in Kyoto. Kyoto - this is a big city ... but all four of my mother's brother - Buddhist monks. And they live in a mountain monastery. Pilgrims go there ... It is at this island, where a lot of gore. The monastery is located high in the mountains at an altitude of three thousand meters. This is a particular form of Buddhism - Buddhist mountain, I would say ...

- This is not Zen?

- no, not so much all over, all that was there before all days. It is rather a sort of Tibetan Buddhism ... It is in childhood, every summer I lived with my mother of his four uncles in the monastery.

- you do not accidentally start a painting?

- Yes, after this.

- you have long lived there?

- Every summer for a month. We are there to help in the household, the monastery is always a lot of cases. There is a lot of pilgrims. People who want to find inner peace.

- you do some exercises? Uncle something show?

- No, no exercises. We are just a lot of them went to the mountains to climb very much.

- So, you start to draw back to childhood ...

- Well, then it was like all children, a lot of manga - all of Japanese children draw manga, so it is quite usual story.

- In today's fashion you do not then start to paint?

- Children's impressions came to me later. They are very intense. And I began to paint, as if re-experiencing all of this, as if in search of the road there - lost in space.

- That is all the same it started after school, at least in the Tokyo Academy?

- I would not say. The Tokyo Academy, I draw a different, very naturalistic ... very classic. Very.

- So, it started at the Munich Academy?

- What started?

- Style Motoko Dobasi.

- I think I just remembered what a wild, natural rights language. But to his recall, I wanted a quiet, calm. So it gave me the Munich Academy. Six years here, I did not disturb anybody. I changed a lot during this time, try many different techniques ... Munich was ideally suited for this city. On the one hand - a city of art, on the other hand, in contrast to Berlin, he is not a fashion, it is not so hype'a and, accordingly, do not have this sense all the time that you lose something that we should run where something for someone to row to be in the mainstream ... in Berlin, and in a nice, very hard to remain calm, but in Munich it is possible.

- And beyond that you like Munich?

- Of course. Great! Mountains nearby, so much the nature of ...

- When you are in the Alps, you feel the same sense that the mountains in Japan? I am here, for example, no, I like in the Alps, very nice, but how to say ...

- How to post cards, yes?

- Yes.

- No, I'm here, too, do not feel those feelings that were in his childhood in the mountains in Japan. But here, too, is beautiful.

- What is the role of literature? If you do something ...

- the book I just read it. Pictures I can not look unprofessional, I inevitably always compare, judge, ryazhu ... And the books I read back without any thoughts, biases, goals ... Just because.

- That is the book for you - this is entertainment?

- It is not only fun, it is not. But here I can rest from making judgments. I read for pleasure. Of course, I love fiction. There are probably two books that are especially important to me. One - it «The Wall» Marlen Haushofer. For information on how suddenly the middle of a mountain landscape rose high wall, formed a vicious circle, and in this circle was a woman. She could not go beyond that wall, it is locked.

- Horror directly be locked?

- Yes, yes! A world behind the wall at the same time, was completely destroyed by war ... That is a very important book for me. I like Hoffman, he had me, even with each other, see? I like American literature, many authors ... Then there are the Japanese writers - Murakami, for example, wrote a couple of good books.

- You mean Haruki Murakami?

- Yes.

- And what of his books you like?

- «The hunt for wild sheep».

- A Second?

- Give thought ...

- «Kafka on the beach»?

- No, no, that I do not like. All too exaggerated ... Here is a «Ulybka Naoko» - it is also good. But «The hunt for sheep» better it his best.

- You have not met him by accident?

- (laughs). No. He is very famous in Japan ... I respected him more for his political engagement.

- That his book - interviews with former members of the sect «Aum-Sinrike», yes?

- Exactly.

- Other Japanese writers?

- I like Kendzaburo MA.

- Akutagava?

- Not particularly. Actually, I like writers who write some very personal things, probably because their own experiences ...

- You did not write itself?

- No, no words. But I have an idea to do something when a book of pictures of narrative ... But this is the only way - one of the thousands of ideas, nothing concrete.

- Who you like the contemporary artists?

- Of the artists of my generation, so to say. I like the fact that the twins do - Gert Tobias and Uve.

- A senior? Well, a lot, I understand. To a certain style you are not given attribute, but what you like? Let's start with expressionism ...

- I like the surrealist ... And Dadaists.

- I think you should be close to Max Ernst.

- Yes, it is true, it is especially important to me. Actually, it incredible artist, a person ...

Source: vz.ru