NYAB Event - Tazuko Fuji "Recent Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures"

Tazuko Fuji "Recent Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures"

Viridian Artists, Inc.

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Ms. Fujii’s reflections on classical and modern literature, philosophy and religion inform her highly personal artistic vision, giving graceful physical form to abstract, intellectual concepts. Her art world is Fusion, Harmony, and a Combination of East and West. At first glance one might see what one calls Western abstract art, but with further scrutiny one finds fragments of traditional Japanese elements, such as calligraphy and brightly patterned “washi” or Japanese rice papers. Her poetic, evanescent images are fleeting moments that link subjective thought and objective objects--the void and plenitude--that which we so frequently call the yin and the yang. From the fluid surfaces of various layered materials, like tissue paper or netting, ethereal forms arise, dynamically probing memories and fantasies, expanding and quivering like gossamer veils of paper.

Tazuko Fujii’s art has often been linked to the notion of “Ma,” a concept that pervades all forms of Japanese cultural life. “Ma” is defined as the relation between space / time. It is not an empty spatial interval but rather a dynamic interrelationship. It is that which both separates and links things, not the object but the shadow. According to the late Japanese choreographer, Hideyuki Yano, ”Ma” is “a state of equilibrium that is felt as a golden mean. However, it is something that is always vanishing-- a sort of momentary improvisation.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Sculpture

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