Paul Binnie "Paintings to Prints and Back Again"
Scholten Japanese Art
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This is Scholten's second exhibition of the work of Paul Binnie. The first, "Echoes of Japan: the Woodblock Prints of Paul Binnie" exhibited in 2008, was focused primarily on his work as a printmaker, from his earliest stencils to his most elaborate large scale full-color woodblock prints.
In this exhibition we will present a broader spectrum of his work, and en route, explore the artist's method of working up a composition for a print or painting, as well as the process of woodblock printmaking itself. The exhibition will include sketches, drawings watercolors and oil paintings related to woodblock print designs.
While Binnie is well-known as an artist working in the Japanese tradition of woodblock printmaking, he began his career as a studio painter. Collectors visiting his studio in London are sometimes surprised to discover his walls are completely covered with his striking oil paintings. This is not as unusual as it may seem, many of the leading Japanese shin-hanga (lit. 'new print') artists, in whose steps Binnie follows, studied Western painting techniques at some point, including Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), and Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950).
Binnie holds Yoshida in particular reverence; he collects his work and has been following in Yoshida's footsteps with his ongoing "Travels with the Master" landscape series. His monumental woodblock print depicting Grand Canyon was inspired by a 1926 print of a similar vantage by Yoshida. In the upcoming exhibition we will be able to exhibit this print along with a large original oil painting of Grand Canyon by Binnie. In addition, the original paintings related to several of his compositions already released as prints, New York Sunset, New York Night, and Niagara Falls (all three illustrated here) will be on view beside impressions of the prints, along with a few coveted paintings and conté drawings of bijin (beauties) subjects as well.
[Image: Paul Binnie "Kyo Maiko original conte drawing" (2007) 40.2 x 29.8 cm.]
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from September 21, 2010 to September 30, 2010