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Hideki Maekawa "Antique Elegance - Drawing on Heian to Kamakura Sculptural Styles"
Kaikai Kiki Gallery
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Hideki Maekawa
With wood sculptures as his main medium, Hideki Maekawa also creates paintings, household objects, and even stories. He began making Buddhist statues through dialogue with Takashi Murakami five years ago and presented his first “Fugen Bosatsu (Samantabhadra Bodhisattva) statue” at “Healing x Healing,” an exhibition curated by Murakami in March 2021.
In creating his Buddhist sculptures, Maekawa researched diverse styles of Buddhist statue-making from various regions, taking special interest in the statue-making culture during the transition from the Heian period to the Kamakura shogunate. From the mid-Heian period onward, in the Tohoku region of Japan and elsewhere, the culture and styles of the capital mingled with the local natural characteristics, and the production of Buddhist artifacts began to flourish. Maekawa describes the Buddhist statues he makes as “regional Buddha” created from a hybrid of courtly styles and sensibilities with indigenous culture. He explains that he creates his statues not with the glittering elegance of the metropolitan sensibility of the time in mind, but rather imagining the stance of regional Buddhist statues created out of pure longing for the capital city.
This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with Kaikai Kiki as well as the first to exclusively exhibit a series of his Buddhist statues.
In creating his Buddhist sculptures, Maekawa researched diverse styles of Buddhist statue-making from various regions, taking special interest in the statue-making culture during the transition from the Heian period to the Kamakura shogunate. From the mid-Heian period onward, in the Tohoku region of Japan and elsewhere, the culture and styles of the capital mingled with the local natural characteristics, and the production of Buddhist artifacts began to flourish. Maekawa describes the Buddhist statues he makes as “regional Buddha” created from a hybrid of courtly styles and sensibilities with indigenous culture. He explains that he creates his statues not with the glittering elegance of the metropolitan sensibility of the time in mind, but rather imagining the stance of regional Buddhist statues created out of pure longing for the capital city.
This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with Kaikai Kiki as well as the first to exclusively exhibit a series of his Buddhist statues.
Schedule | Dec 2 (Fri) 2022-Dec 22 (Thu) 2022 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Dec 2 (Fri) 2022 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Kaikai Kiki Gallery http://en.gallery-kaikaikiki.com/  | ||||
| Location | B1F Motoazabu Crest Bldg., 2-3-30 Motoazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0046 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line, 13 minute walk from Azabu-juban Station on the Toei Oedo or Namboku line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6823-6038 | ||||
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