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Saki Sumida “As It Goes”
Yuka Tsuruno Gallery
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Saki Sumida
For her first solo exhibition at Yuka Tsuruno Gallery Saki Sumida will showcase past and new works from her most important series depicting Mt. Fuji and the Seven Gods of Fortune. The Japanese title Akuta wo Erabazu is taken from the Japanese proverb “taikai wa akuta wo erabazu,” similar to the English proverb “the sea refuses no river”, which alludes to the fact that a great person generously accepts anything without worrying about the small things. Sumida perceives Japan as an environment where various traditions, religions and cultures from the outside that drifted into it were accepted and allowed to flourish in a web of intertwined influences. Akuta wo Erabazu (As it goes) casts a positive light on this aspect of the Japanese condition embodied by the country’s landscapes, and which resonates with the artist’s own attitude towards external influences. As a young artist born in the 1980s, Sumida takes her materials, the images of phenomena that have come to be regarded as “originally Japanese” despite arising from cross-cultural exchange since antiquity, and reproduces them using the traditionally Western pictorial technique of oils on canvas in a way that the contrast between multiple cultures is consciously accentuated. This is for her, and for us viewers, a method to get to know the very place we live.
Schedule | Feb 13 (Sat) 2016-Mar 5 (Sat) 2016 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Feb 13 (Sat) 2016 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://yukatsuruno.com/pressrelease/pr054_asitgoes | ||||
| Venue | Yuka Tsuruno Gallery http://yukatsuruno.com/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B at Tennozu Isle Station on the Rinkai line, 10 minute walk from the South exit of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail line, 9 minute walk from the North exit of Shimbamba Station on the Keikyu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5781-2525 | ||||
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