"Counterpoint: Outsider Art from Japan" Exhibition
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
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The exhibition features more than 40 works by 5 artists (2 women, 3 men) from Studio Shu*, a creative workshop for the disabled located outside Tokyo (Kawaguchi city, Saitama).
Through Studio Shu’s workshop environment, members have developed remarkably candid and compelling artistic vocabularies without any formal training. Their work represents so-called outsider art, due to its indifference to mainstream artistic norms and contemporary market trends. Rather than alienating these artists as outsiders, we hope to recognize their refreshing perspectives as valid counterpoints deserving of scrutiny. Inspired, like so much great art, by a “painful, difficult search within” (Louise Nevelson), outsider art is becoming an essential voice in today’s ever-evolving art scene.
*Since 1984, the founder of this workshop, the Minuma Welfare Foundation, has provided various working opportunities for the disabled. Today, the studio has grown to 21 members and provides painting, textile, and woodcraft workshops. The Studio is intended to be an open space where the disabled, their families, staff, volunteers, and local residents can unite in creative expression.
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Schedule
from September 09, 2010 to October 09, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-16 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Yuki Tanaka, Shogo Ozaki, Hanae Sasaki, Yasuhiro Nishikawa, Yuichi Saito