Exhibition

Hiroko Osugi: Shokai "sai"
image: "sai" color ink on Japanese paper, 690 x 920 mm, 2012

  • 大杉弘子 - 書界「さい」

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Hiroko Osugi: Shokai "sai"

2012 Aug. 2 (Thu) 18:00 - Aug. 21 (Tue)

Art Front Gallery will present "Shokai sai", solo exhibition of Hiroko Osugi.
Date 2012 Aug. 2 (Thu) 18:00 - Aug. 21 (Tue)
Hours 11.00 - 19.00 (closed on Mondays and 11(sat) - 15(wed))
Venue Art Front Gallery
Event Opening Reception Aug. 2 (Thu) 18.00 - 20.00
Artist appears at the gallery : Aug. 3(fri), 4(sat), 5(sun), 7(tue) - 10(fri), 16(thu) - 19(sun), 21(tue)
Hiroko Ohsugi’s works evoke the memory when letters were invented.
The works always present us primary questions.
However, the style is fluently gentle and refreshing, and expands endlessly.
Even while DNA of words is implied at the bottom, the blue screen that is painted by Chinese old color ink directly reaches to our heart in the sense of pruning all things like the impact of Jackson Pollock’s paintings.
After Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Ryoichi Wago, a poet wrote six numbers of poems responding to Ohsugi’s works.

I
You
and Our Hometown
Each of them is single being

so

Live
a moment
a day
a life
a step
devotedly

“From Fukushima” Ryoichi Wago

With having international view, the artist courageously follows the border of Sho and contemporary. Ohsugi’s newfound theme is on the base of “sai ” which is discovered by Shizuka Shirakawa, a scholar of literature.
“sai ” is the shape of a container which stores prayer. It is an offering to god.
The disaster asked the change of consciousness and awareness fundamentally.
What is a thing of offering to empty “sai ” ?
Shokai that is a prayer of Ohsugi’s Mass questions for the meaning to live.

Hidemi Kida, Art Front Gallery

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