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Fleeting Lines: Lines as Images
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Kishio Suga, Moriyuki Kuwabara, Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Masaaki Yamada, Toshimitsu Imai
This themed exhibition features works by six post-war and contemporary Japanese artists who use lines not to represent an image but, instead, present them as the image in themselves. A line can be made with a simple action and yet its outcome is diverse and elusive; the variations of its support material, length, width, direction, and shape give each line a unique expression, and such inherent instability of lines evokes spontaneity and experimentation in the images they compose. Kishio Suga (1944-) constructs ephemeral arrangements of materials, both industrially manufactured and natural, via direct actions such as suspending, dropping, and stacking. Lines made visible by such arrangements explore the relationships between the individual, matter, and surrounding space. Moriyuki Kuwabara (1942-) uses a compass and self-devised grids to paint countless circles that overlap and expand into a dynamic geometric composition, which is evocative of the tone of light and sound in transition. Best known for her enamel paintings of circles and lines resembling electrical circuitry, Atsuko Tanaka’s (1932-2005) drawings on paper unfold delicate hand-drawn lines freshly recording the movement of the artist’s hands. Such sensuous nature may refer to the physical and performative aspect of Tanaka’s early theatrical pieces. An advocate and practitioner of post-war Informel movement Toshimitsu Imai (1928-2002) creates energetic abstract paintings using lines that derive from improvisational movements. Yayoi Kusama’s (1929-) “Infinity Nets” are obsessive repetitions of linear patterns that reveal an infinite expansion in the pictorial space while drifting between illusion and imagination. Similarly, Masaaki Yamada’s (1929-2010) paintings of stripes are a collection of repeated lines, which are drawn to mimic the outline of the canvas. Grounded in such internal formal logic, Yamada’s delicate lines stimulate our perceptual experience when facing a tableau.
Schedule | Sep 27 (Wed) 2017-Nov 11 (Sat) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | MAKI https://www.makigallery.com/  | ||||
| Location | 4-11-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit A2 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines. 6 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7705 | ||||
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