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Kenjiro Okazaki "Topica Pictus Revisited: Forty Red, White, and Blue Shoestrings and a Thousand Telephones"
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Kenjiro Okazaki
In October of 2021, Tokyo-based artist Kenjiro Okazaki suffered a severe stroke. After more than six months of hospitalization and rigorous rehabilitation, his body and mind made a remarkable recovery, allowing him to resume painting—something that was predicted to be impossible early on in his convalescence. This experience led Okazaki to rediscover the relationship between the body, the mind, and the world. It also gave him a new perspective on the significance of artistic creation. This exhibition will be the first to display new work by the artist since his discharge from the hospital.
Topica Pictus takes its name, firstly, from topos, a rhetorical device that Aristotle deployed to describe a source or place from which a speaker may locate their argument. Secondly, the name is taken from the Latin word pictus, which means “painted.” Okazaki uses his small-scale, abstract paintings as the containing factor, a topos, to loosely suggest his influences and present them alongside one another. In the exhibition, the artist unites under a topos his encounter with becoming defamiliarized from his physicality- recorded and presented here through the act of painting- with references in the work titles to concepts such as Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” Polish folklore, or "mokushi," the Japanese word for “revelation.”
Topica Pictus takes its name, firstly, from topos, a rhetorical device that Aristotle deployed to describe a source or place from which a speaker may locate their argument. Secondly, the name is taken from the Latin word pictus, which means “painted.” Okazaki uses his small-scale, abstract paintings as the containing factor, a topos, to loosely suggest his influences and present them alongside one another. In the exhibition, the artist unites under a topos his encounter with becoming defamiliarized from his physicality- recorded and presented here through the act of painting- with references in the work titles to concepts such as Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” Polish folklore, or "mokushi," the Japanese word for “revelation.”
Schedule | Sep 24 (Sat) 2022-Nov 6 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 24 (Sat) 2022 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.blumandpoe.com/exhibitions/topica_pictus_revisited | ||||
| Venue | Blum https://blum-gallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 5F Harajuku Jingu-no-mori, 1-14-34 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku , Tokyo 150-0001 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from the Takeshita exit of Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote line, 2 minute walk from exit 2 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3475-1631 | ||||
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