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Hiroe Saeki
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our second exhibition with Kyoto based artist Saeki Hiroe. Saeki, born in Osaka in 1978, creates drawings with mechanical pencils and sharpened pencils on Kent paper. In recent years, Saeki’s works exceed 150, and her expression has moved beyond the natural “bird and flower” motifs that were often seen in her past works. In the coming exhibition, a 3 meters drawing, which consists of 4 panels, will be exhibited along with other small and large new drawings that correspond to the gallery space.
The images in these works, reminiscent of the “bird and flower” motifs of traditional Japanese painting, are placed against large unmarked areas of white. The intricate forms, like lotus blossoms or spiders, are depicted in delicate drawings that seem to express Japanese taste. However, the rhythm of the decorous forms created with the uniform lead of a sharp pencil has a graphic presence based on the premise of planar expansion. The ambivalent fusion of Japanese taste and automatic (or self-propagating) graphic expansion seems to acquire a kind of original expression that, unexpectedly, we have never seen before. This effect is brought about through the consciousness and sensibility of Saeki as she draws curious natural objects emerging from the paper with obsessive intensity.
Text by Santo Oshima (quoted from “VOCA 2006 The Vision of Contemporary Art”2006, p.121 )
Opening Reception: December 22nd, 17:00-20:00
[Image: Untitled (2007) Pencil and ink on paper, 74.5 × 111cm]
The images in these works, reminiscent of the “bird and flower” motifs of traditional Japanese painting, are placed against large unmarked areas of white. The intricate forms, like lotus blossoms or spiders, are depicted in delicate drawings that seem to express Japanese taste. However, the rhythm of the decorous forms created with the uniform lead of a sharp pencil has a graphic presence based on the premise of planar expansion. The ambivalent fusion of Japanese taste and automatic (or self-propagating) graphic expansion seems to acquire a kind of original expression that, unexpectedly, we have never seen before. This effect is brought about through the consciousness and sensibility of Saeki as she draws curious natural objects emerging from the paper with obsessive intensity.
Text by Santo Oshima (quoted from “VOCA 2006 The Vision of Contemporary Art”2006, p.121 )
Opening Reception: December 22nd, 17:00-20:00
[Image: Untitled (2007) Pencil and ink on paper, 74.5 × 111cm]
Schedule | Dec 22 (Sat) 2007-Jan 26 (Sat) 2008 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.takaishiigallery.com/exhibition/2007/12_Hiroe_Saeki/ | ||||
| Venue | Taka Ishii Gallery http://www.takaishiigallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7010 | ||||
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