NYAB Event - Ayako Wakahara "Tenkoku"

Ayako Wakahara "Tenkoku"

Onishi Gallery

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Tenkoku is a highly sophisticated art form with more than 3,000 years of history. It requires mastery of craftsmanship, skill in calligraphy and design. Sanu Aoyama, a seminal figure in the Japanese calligraphy, refers to Tenkoku as an endeavor which requires as much skill as producing an immense calligraphic work.
Wakahara uses Tenkoku as calligraphy within calligraphy, where art is created with a chisel and stone – instead of a bamboo brush and rice paper. To Wakahara, it is one of the archetypal examples of the Japanese esthetic – wabi-sabi. Placing a trace of Tenkoku on an empty white space means more than the act itself – it essentially transforms the empty space into a universe surrounding the small island of Tenkoku. Wakahara also finds profound meaning in the act of placing Tenkoku on rice paper. As with the movement of bamboo brush, it ultimately captures and embodies the moment onto the rice paper.

Media

• Graphics
• Calligraphy
• Prints

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