The exhibition "The Beauty of the Japanese" are now in Moscow
Exhibition of contemporary Japanese art, prepared by the Tokyo gallery "Shiraishi, after the successful launch of the Russian Museum arrived in Moscow. In the halls of Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery presents 80 works made in traditional and modern tech
today in the halls of the Art Gallery of Zurab Tsereteli (Prechistenka 19) opened to the public exhibition "The Beauty of the Japanese", conducted by Tokyo-based gallery "Shiraishi» (Gallery Shiraishi). In September of this project with great success on display at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg . Now Muscovites have a unique opportunity to see the work of 12 contemporary Japanese artists - artists of different generations and artistic fields.
According to experts, modern Japanese art is represented in Russia with such a breadth first. Among the participants - Yayoi Kusama, Hiroshi Sands, Masaaki Miyasako that are in the western art establishment. Along with many other painters, architects, sculptors, photographers in the professional and popular consciousness they embody "Japanese contribution" to some global cultural integration processes. For example, the name of an outstanding artist, writer and poet Yayoi Kusama critics strongly associated with the western world of surrealism and pop art, with the development of American art performance.
Masataka Oyabu Kay Sibusava, Kazuyuki Futagava, Yuji Sasaki, Teyske Narita, Misaki Ando, Tadahiko Nakayama, Hanako Kunis, Tinami Nakajima - large master , popular mainly in the Japanese art scene. They basically focus on sensitive issues of national art in the nuances of its evolution, and especially appealing to the Japanese audience.
On the expressiveness of the exhibition demonstrates the virtuoso techniques of the authors of the national school "nihonga", as well as refracted national artistic consciousness of the influence of Western art. Among 80 exhibits - an oil painting and traditional painting on silk, on Japanese washi paper with ink and watercolor glue. Easel paintings and screens side by side with abstract paintings and sketches based on natural landscapes and portraits.
In a number of works embodied the original visual solution to the problems of space and time, meaningful purely Japanese understanding of the nature and the world. All these works are characterized by the highest pictorial culture and particularly poetry, as if the dotted line scheduled to "active" point of modern Japanese art.
offering viewers a characteristic cross-section of artistic context of the current Japan, the creators of the exhibition demonstrate not only a variety of copyright decisions ostrosovremennyh artistic problems, but also raise questions about the phenomenon of "Japanese" in modern art.
an idea of the collection of the gallery "Shiraishi" - one of the most successful in Japan. It was founded in Tokyo in 1967, the expert and connoisseur of art, Mr. Shiraishi, Yukio. The main exhibition space the gallery is located on the Ginza - the iconic Tokyo area. Over the years gallery has acquired a network of branches and representative offices throughout Japan. Today it opened a representative office in Moscow, in the long term - to open branches in Dubai, Paris, New York, London and other cities around the world.
Gallery cooperates with famous well-known artists, as well as with talented youth. At first, she represented Japan in the work of European masters, and from 1980 began to work with Japanese artists.
Since 1995, the gallery "Shiraishi regularly holds exhibitions" World Art Tour " which involve many of the artists in New York. In 2007 and 2008, the gallery is a great success exhibited in Moscow at the International Art Salon, earning the endorsement of professional admiration and grateful spectators. And at last, "ART MOSCOW" gallery "Shiraishi" entered the top ten on the number of proceeds .
exhibition will run until October 26, 2010.
Sources: , artinvestment.ru
