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[Image: Ai Yamaguchi "anata no uta" (2018) acrylic on wood (bubinga) 50x32x2.2 cm, Photography by Kei Miyajima, ai yamaguchi・ninyu works]

Ai Yamaguchi “ima to koko ni”

Mizuma Art Gallery - Ichigaya
Finished

Artists

Ai Yamaguchi
Ai Yamaguchi’s work to date has taken as its expressive vantage point the form of the lives of young women who exist as ladies of the night, in a teahouse supposedly known as touge no ochaya. However, they are also always formulated from Yamaguchi’s earnest, unwavering desire to create something that is felt to be beautiful. In concert with her distinctive “futon canvas” works, she has created pieces exploring various other material possibilities: this varied backdrop to her practice includes washi (handmade paper), wooden panel, shell and porcelain, amongst others.

Yamaguchi’s depictive techniques are informed by her unique assimilations of aspects of Japanese culture and customs, including calligraphy, waka poetry and traditional kimono patterns. In her works’ supple linear qualities and reiterative patterns, accumulated flows of time seem to coexist with the beauty of a single moment in the seasons’ endless vicissitudes.

In “ima to koko ni” the entire exhibition appears as a unified landscape. Intricate works centring on washi and wood are positioned so as to form visual connections between the wall surfaces and the exhibition space, and the delicate paper boat placed at its centre, around which they revolve.

Thought and movement seem perfectly aligned, as though they had smoothly mounted onto waves and begun rowing the boat; and as though these paintings, depicted with a truthfulness of feeling, wished to exist in the same way as the beautiful landscapes that pass before our eyes. Such thoughts form part of the reason for the exhibition’s choice of title, “ima to koko ni” (which may be loosely translated as “here and now”).

Schedule

May 9 (Wed) 2018-Jun 9 (Sat) 2018 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-18:00
Closed
Monday, Sunday, Holidays
FeeFree
Websitehttp://mizuma-art.co.jp/en/exhibitions/1805_yamaguchiai/
VenueMizuma Art Gallery - Ichigaya
https://mizuma-art.co.jp/en/
Location2F Kagura Bldg., 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0843
Access5 minute walk from exit 5 at Ichigaya Station on the Yurakucho and Namboku lines, 8 minute walk from the West exit of Iidabashi Station on the JR Chuo-Sobu line, 8 minute walk from exit B3 at Iidabashi Station on the Tozai, Yurakucho and Namboku lines.
Phone03-3268-2500
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