Aesthetic medley of artistic expressions
A total of 22 artworks by Japanese artists Hideo Iida and Izumi Tanabe are on display at an exhibition titled ‘Japan 4’ at Gallery Mcube, Chakupat. The exhibition, which was officially inaugurated on November 15, showcases 12 artworks by Hideo and 10 of Izumi’s paintings. This is the second exhibition of the two artists in Nepal, who are also a part of a group of four Japanese artists called ‘Japan 4’.
Through his artworks, Hideo who is heavily influenced by traditional Japanese art, has delved into the Japanese concept of space in his art world. He shares, “The degrading state of Japanese spaces and my longing to mingle amid nature and its elements have inspired me to create my paintings.” Using acrylic on canvas, Hideo has expressed his thoughts through abstract paintings.
Izumi on the other hand, with her painting series titled ‘Hanabi’ has played with the contrasting qualities of light and shadow. She shares, “I have attempted to relate the ever-changing attitudes of lights that disappear and appear continuously and the moment of split-second of brightness that I feel lasts forever with the shining moments in a woman’s life.” She adds, “Through my work, I want to give people the message to consider their roots and inquire about their existence and pride.” Izumi has also used acrylic on canvas as her medium.
One of Hideo’s works features a canvas filled with precise squares while the prime colours used is red, black and white. He has layered several white squares over the persistent background of red, black and white. It seems as though the artist has used the squares to define his artistic understanding of space while various spastic lines of red and black seem to be representing the destruction and degradation of spaces. Perhaps the blatant use of red on his canvas may also mean human destruction or bloodshed due to degradation while it can also be viewed as emotional state of confusion.
Conversely, Izumi’s work is more figurative in a sense. As one can straight-out observe scrunched-up fabrics in all of her paintings giving one idea of the tangled lives that we are living. One’s co-relation with another person or being and the constant coincidences that occur in one’s lifetime might also be the meaning behind her use of the fabric imagery. One particular painting of hers features two separate scrunched-up areas of fabric painted close to one another but is not connected visually. But what connect them are the straight lines of blue paint, which have been drawn across the canvas and are both thick and thin. Apart from that, use of green and red colours and the shadows that have been painted to depict the crumpled state of fabrics can also be observed.
The exhibition is on till November 24.
Through his artworks, Hideo who is heavily influenced by traditional Japanese art, has delved into the Japanese concept of space in his art world. He shares, “The degrading state of Japanese spaces and my longing to mingle amid nature and its elements have inspired me to create my paintings.” Using acrylic on canvas, Hideo has expressed his thoughts through abstract paintings.
Izumi on the other hand, with her painting series titled ‘Hanabi’ has played with the contrasting qualities of light and shadow. She shares, “I have attempted to relate the ever-changing attitudes of lights that disappear and appear continuously and the moment of split-second of brightness that I feel lasts forever with the shining moments in a woman’s life.” She adds, “Through my work, I want to give people the message to consider their roots and inquire about their existence and pride.” Izumi has also used acrylic on canvas as her medium.
One of Hideo’s works features a canvas filled with precise squares while the prime colours used is red, black and white. He has layered several white squares over the persistent background of red, black and white. It seems as though the artist has used the squares to define his artistic understanding of space while various spastic lines of red and black seem to be representing the destruction and degradation of spaces. Perhaps the blatant use of red on his canvas may also mean human destruction or bloodshed due to degradation while it can also be viewed as emotional state of confusion.
Conversely, Izumi’s work is more figurative in a sense. As one can straight-out observe scrunched-up fabrics in all of her paintings giving one idea of the tangled lives that we are living. One’s co-relation with another person or being and the constant coincidences that occur in one’s lifetime might also be the meaning behind her use of the fabric imagery. One particular painting of hers features two separate scrunched-up areas of fabric painted close to one another but is not connected visually. But what connect them are the straight lines of blue paint, which have been drawn across the canvas and are both thick and thin. Apart from that, use of green and red colours and the shadows that have been painted to depict the crumpled state of fabrics can also be observed.
The exhibition is on till November 24.