Goro’s to be part of a group show, Fushi-e Exhibition（節絵展）in Shonan area, Japan this November.
‘Fushi-e’ is an art format proposed by a group of the local artists, architects and industrial designers in Shonan area a few years ago. They reintroduced a new style of distribution and production of artwork based on the Japanese culture, the ways how the Japanese used to enjoy art in daily life for hundreds of years. The keys are the traditional scale of Japanese architecture and the sense of seasons that always applied into Zen practice, tea ceremonies and so on.
What they invented particularly for this project is the ‘Fushi-e ratio’ (so called the platinum ratio) in that most artworks match with Japanese traditional and modern interior according to their researches.
They have already held a certain number of exhibitions in the area located in different commercial galleries, inviting a number of the local fine artists, photographers, traditional calligraphers who live in the traditionally artist’s much-loved area – Kamakura, Fujisawa, Chigasaki, Zushi, Hayama, etc..
The unique point of the organisers’ idea is that a Fushi-e artwork is always accompanied by a ‘base’, which is usually created also by the other local artists, like sculptors, product designers, mosaic makers, wood carvers, celamicists who are more in craft-wise field rather than in contemporary art field.
Thus this project has a huge potential in many ways, in terms of developing a new Japanese contemporary art market and establishment of the Japanese contemporary artists and craft makers at the same time.
The Fushi-e Exhibition this season has been going on in seven locations in the area with over fifty artists and craft makers.
For more details about the exhibition, please check out the link of Fushi-e official site and Gallery WATO site (both in Japanese) or contact Goro by email for information in English.
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Group Show, “Fushi-e Exhibitions (at Gallery WATO)”
2-5-35 Ōmachi, Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa, 248-0007, Japan
21st – 29th November 2015
*above: ‘A New Born’ (2015) Paint, Dermatograph and paper, 217 x 90 mm
*below: ‘Cheeks’ (2015) Paint, marker, Dermatograph and paper, 217 x 90 mm
