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Janaina Tschape “Moon Blossom”
NCA | Nichido Contemporary Art
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Janaina Tschape
This exhibition features four large paintings exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from June through September this year, as well as drawings created especially for this show.
Janaina Tschape's life has always been an indispensable part of her painting, as well as the process through which her works are achieved. Each brushstroke expresses her intent with a strong sense of gravity and presence, partially blocking up past traces; her palette of colors, however, is strongly integrated, rendered in multiple layers of paint.
Tschape's paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos and photographs all deal with themes of life and nature, sex, death, rebirth and transformation. Her work makes these themes manifest without describing them directly. The physical sensations that appear on the surface of her works vary according to a whole minutely arranged spectrum of colors.
Her paintings evoke feelings of being underwater, or wrapped up in a sort of transparent cloak; however, the sensations and readings obtained from her painting are by no means constant. The density of these works - akin to a sort of inexplicable humidity - imparts to them a sense of completion, yet one is at the same time left to doubt if these paintings are really finished.
Tschape's painting thus expresses not a finished condition, but rather gives us a clear indication of a work-in-progress whose nature changes in gradual increments.
Jim Hyde
Janaina Tschape's life has always been an indispensable part of her painting, as well as the process through which her works are achieved. Each brushstroke expresses her intent with a strong sense of gravity and presence, partially blocking up past traces; her palette of colors, however, is strongly integrated, rendered in multiple layers of paint.
Tschape's paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos and photographs all deal with themes of life and nature, sex, death, rebirth and transformation. Her work makes these themes manifest without describing them directly. The physical sensations that appear on the surface of her works vary according to a whole minutely arranged spectrum of colors.
Her paintings evoke feelings of being underwater, or wrapped up in a sort of transparent cloak; however, the sensations and readings obtained from her painting are by no means constant. The density of these works - akin to a sort of inexplicable humidity - imparts to them a sense of completion, yet one is at the same time left to doubt if these paintings are really finished.
Tschape's painting thus expresses not a finished condition, but rather gives us a clear indication of a work-in-progress whose nature changes in gradual increments.
Jim Hyde
Schedule | Nov 27 (Thu) 2008-Dec 20 (Sat) 2008 Opening Hours Information
Reception for artist Nov 27 (Thu) 2008 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | NCA | Nichido Contemporary Art http://www.nca-g.com  | ||||
| Location | 102, 7-21-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 7 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line, 7 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6384-5310 | ||||
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