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Seiji Chokai Exhibition
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP
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Seiji Chokai
Seiji Chōkai was born in Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1902. While a student at Kansai University, he included his works in the exhibitions of the Shun-yō kai, a group of yōga painters. In 1928 he received the 6th, and in 1929, the 7th Shun-yō kai Award. In 1930 Chōkai went to Europe, where over the course of the next three years he studied the work of Western artists such as Delacroix, Goya, and Rembrandt. Under the influence of Fauvism, Chōkai began his career as a landscape painter. Later, he began to deal with various subjects, such as still life, the human figure, architecture, and historical monuments, creating works uniquely engaged with the materiality of paint. Receiving the Ministry of Education Award in 1955, the 3rd Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition Award in 1958, and the 10th Mainichi Art Award in 1959, Chōkai has continued an artistic practice that serves as a prime example of modern Japanese yōga.
After his return from Europe, Chōkai first made work with concepts and techniques derived from Western painting, but soon encountered difficulty rendering Japanese nature using oil paint. Chōkai’s solution was to focus on the possibilities of the medium and start to explore the colors and textures of paint. Now mixed with sand and stone, the painting’s surface loses its glossiness and becomes more abstract even as the paint itself carries a concrete trace of the Japanese landscape. At the same time, this material-oriented approach can also be found in contemporaneous Western painting. Chōkai’s work truly originates at the intersection of the local and the global.
After his return from Europe, Chōkai first made work with concepts and techniques derived from Western painting, but soon encountered difficulty rendering Japanese nature using oil paint. Chōkai’s solution was to focus on the possibilities of the medium and start to explore the colors and textures of paint. Now mixed with sand and stone, the painting’s surface loses its glossiness and becomes more abstract even as the paint itself carries a concrete trace of the Japanese landscape. At the same time, this material-oriented approach can also be found in contemporaneous Western painting. Chōkai’s work truly originates at the intersection of the local and the global.
Schedule | May 13 (Sat) 2017-Jun 24 (Sat) 2017 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception May 13 (Sat) 2017 16:00 - 18:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.tokyo-gallery.com/en/exhibitions/intokyo/post-388.html | ||||
| Venue | Tokyo Gallery + BTAP http://www.tokyo-gallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 7F, 8-10-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from the Ginza exit of JR Shimbashi Station. 5 minute walk from exit A3 at Ginza Station on the Ginza, Hibiya and Marunouchi lines. 5 minute walk from exit 5 at Shiodome Station on the Toei Oedo or Yurikamome line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3571-1808 | ||||
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