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Gideon Rubin "The Last Day of Summer"
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Gideon Rubin
Maho Kubota Gallery is pleased to present The Last Day of Summer, a solo exhibition by Gideon Rubin, starting 7 April. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Japan and will feature 11 new paintings.
Gideon Rubin’s latest work takes inspiration from ‘The Last Day of Summer’ – an icon on Polish cinema directed by Tadeusz Konwicki. Taking stills from the film as the starting point, Rubin has produced a new body of work; reinterpreting the quiet, contemplative scenes in paint – the black & white frames transformed into painterly technicolour.
Understated and poetic, Konwicki’s The Last Day of Summer presents an ambiguous and open-ended scene, much like those in Rubin’s own work, where extraneous details are edited and erased, leaving only what is essential. As film critic Robert Birkholc describes in his post about the film, “We don’t know the names of the heroes, nor their pasts—the dialogues are sparse and the plot exists only partially—but from their gestures, glances and fragmentary sentences we may glean some information.” （”The Last Day of Summer – Tadeusz Konwicki” by Robert Birkholc）
Gideon Rubin’s latest work takes inspiration from ‘The Last Day of Summer’ – an icon on Polish cinema directed by Tadeusz Konwicki. Taking stills from the film as the starting point, Rubin has produced a new body of work; reinterpreting the quiet, contemplative scenes in paint – the black & white frames transformed into painterly technicolour.
Understated and poetic, Konwicki’s The Last Day of Summer presents an ambiguous and open-ended scene, much like those in Rubin’s own work, where extraneous details are edited and erased, leaving only what is essential. As film critic Robert Birkholc describes in his post about the film, “We don’t know the names of the heroes, nor their pasts—the dialogues are sparse and the plot exists only partially—but from their gestures, glances and fragmentary sentences we may glean some information.” （”The Last Day of Summer – Tadeusz Konwicki” by Robert Birkholc）
Schedule | Apr 7 (Fri) 2023-May 20 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Apr 7 (Fri) 2023 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.mahokubota.com/en/exhibitions/4120/ | ||||
| Venue | Maho Kubota Gallery http://www.mahokubota.com/en/ | ||||
| Location | 1F, 2-4-7 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit 2 at Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line, 11 minute walk from exit A2 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7716 | ||||
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