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Masako Yasuki Exhibition
‘rock at dawn, water mirror in silence’
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2018/11/1(thu)-11/18(sun)
11:00-20:00 最終日は17:00まで
B1F artcomplex hall
月曜休館
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Masako Yasuki Exhibition
‘rock at dawn, water mirror in silence’
I am delighted to have this venue for a solo exhibition. The space has allowed me to include a pair of ‘landscape’ paintings produced many years ago as a student. It has also encouraged me to reflect, through the act of choosing which of my early works to include, upon how much - and little - the world has changed since I painted them.
Since then, borderlines between countries have disappeared in places, and a number of new countries have appeared on maps. Some areas once inhabited have been abandoned and fallen into disuse, while the residents of other parts of the planet have grown accustomed to a greater sense of freedom to travel to far-flung locations than their ancestors ever had. At the same time, technology has relentlessly ‘progressed’ at a dizzyingly exponential pace.
Yet although the fabric of society is constantly being woven and rewoven, and the trappings of everyday life continually reinvented, some fundamentals do not change. The underlying relationship between we humble human beings in our limited and limiting bodies and our environmental context does not alter. It remains silently submerged beneath the hubbub of modernity.
Submerged though the essential states of existence may be, they emanate from the landscape - from city streets as well as fields and mountains. I feel them when on my knees taking frottage of the ground. It is these states that I try to express through my painting.
Masako Yasuki
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For our small, limited brains, the world is seen as always changing at a dizzying pace. Yet beyond the edifice of modernity is buried deep a vast and silent world of timeless states that must be acknowledged.
Yasuki Masako paints the breath of the earth submerged beneath the modern world.
Kinoshita Nagahiro (History of Thought, Art)
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Yasuki’s masterful paintings provide her viewers with a new way of seeing the world while at the same time forcing them to consider the very nature of perception.
Samuel C. Morse ((Professor of the History of Japanese Art, Amherst College)
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■Exhibition period
November 1(Thu) - November 18 (Sun),2018
11:00-20:00 *Closed on Monday, Lastday 11:00-17:00
[Reception party] November 3 (Sat) 18:00-20:00
[Closing party] November 17 (Sat) 18:00-20:00
■Spece
The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo (ACT)
B1F/artcomplexhall, 12-9 Daikyo-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
TEL 03-3341-3253
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■ Admission Free
■Artist
Masako Yasuki
http://www1.kcn.ne.jp/~yasuki/
Masako Yasuki is a painter based in Japan. She has exhibited throughout Japan, and internationally in Korea, Russia, the UK and the USA. She has always painted ‘landscapes’, and her work is always of places she has actually visited.
Yasuki’s ‘landscapes’ relate ‘society’, ‘the environment’ and ‘nature’ in what is sometimes the enveloping arms of a warm embrace, and at others something strict, dark and disturbing. In this way, her landscapes reflect the human condition.
Yasuki’s paintings are often of ‘obliterated cities’, which have been bombed and destroyed, and ‘deep forests’, which are not easy places for people to live. Her paintings are structured with an ‘inversed perspective’ which combines both Western and Eastern perspectives. She uses pre-modern Western materials such as tempera, and pre-modern Japanese materials such as gold leaf. Her approach bridges East and West.
Ultimately, Masako Yasuki’s paintings lead us to doubt and dissolve the perspective, often reflected in the framing of landscape painting, that human history is an exertion of control over the ‘landscape’.
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1994, Master of Arts (Fine Arts), Kyoto Seika University
2015, Guest researcher, Smith College (USA) through the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
2004, Guest artist, Amherst University (USA)
2001, Artist-in-residence, Edinburgh College of Arts (UK) through ART-EX, Osaka Prefectural Government.
◎Exhibition History (abridged)
1999, 2002, VOCA - Vision of Contemporary Art Japan, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2001, Obliteration, Sculpture Court Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art
2002, Edinburgh Project, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan
2004, Confronting Tradition, Smith College Museum of Art, USA
2005, City-net Asia, Seoul Municipal Museum, South Korea
2008, Out of Sight, Still in Mind, Gallery Hangil, South Korea
2010, Gold Experience, Hyun Gallery, South Korea
2013, Art of Asia Collection, Smith College Museum of Art, USA
2013, Inverse Perspective Project, Moscow Biennial Special Program
2014, Fu-Kei Landscape Suicide, Art Complex Center of Tokyo
2015, light tracing the ground, galerie16, Kyoto
2016, Traces of Shadows, Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo
2016, sea of time, contours of light, The Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Bunka Hall, Nara
2018, Kumiko Yoshida & Masako Yasuki, RuArts Gallery, Moscow
◎Other Solo Exhibitions
Many exhibitions at galerie 16 (Kyoto), BASE GALLERY (Tokyo), and Gallery TE (Tokyo) among others.
◎Other Group Exhibitions
Exhibitions at Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto Cultural Museum, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music Satellite Gallery, and Kyoto Art Center among many others domestic and international.
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