Etsuko Watanabe “News”

Yumiko Chiba Associates

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Artists

Etsuko Watanabe

Etsuko Watanabe studied in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Gerhard Richter and was active in Germany for about 30 years. Until now, she has ingeniously captured scenes of a different nature hidden within the familiar landscape of the everyday, and has questioned how our recognition grasps reality by means of painting, and at the same time, what a painting itself should be. While she was living in Germany, she noticed the disordered particles of a television screen she happened to see, a phenomenon caused by reception interference. Then she started to take a photograph of every moment of disorder in television images, which added up to hundreds of pieces. She chose one and started to copy it, thus completing the painting presented for the exhibition. This work suggests pointillism, its image unstably linked with fine dots beyond what a television primarily conveys, but appears as “something incomprehensible and mysterious” to viewers. Watanabe also created two other paintings using a single photograph of the television image. By presenting these two paintings together, she makes “differences” arise between them as works unique to her own hand, the strength of the brushstrokes, and different materials. She creates this odd reality through visual recognition, which is not a recorded image but inspires a moment to recognize an image as another memory.

Schedule

Dec 5 (Sat) 2015-Dec 26 (Sat) 2015