Kay Yoshiya "New Renaissance"
The Nippon Gallery
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At the age of 9, Kay Yoshiya encountered the paintings of Vincent van Gogh at a private art school in Yokohama for the first time. Instantaneously she made up her mind to go to the Netherlands someday, where Vincent was born and brought up, and to become an art painter. In 1965, she crossed over to the Netherlands to continue her study at art academies in The Hague. Since then, 47 years have passed, and she has been staying in Holland already twice as long as the youth period she lived in Japan. Soon after Yoshiya's arrival in Holland, she got deeply impressed and charmed by, earlier than Vincent van Gogh, medieval altar paintings in churches and museums nearby, that gave overwhelming impact and influence to her artistic mind. In pious pray and with eager quest for art, many nameless painters in the early period of European art depicted their altar pieces; through a bit primitive métier, they were telling her the original essence of European art and culture– this is what Yoshiya perceived at that time.
Yoshiya's paintings take the form of multi-wing altar pieces, but adopt fully thought out modern intention and techniques. Human emotions like love and trust and mutual exchange are vital themes to her, and they are depicted on the panels in symbolized form (birds, flowers, clouds, continuing landscape, breathing from one person to other etc.), streaming from one wing to the other and vice versa.
Nearly 50 paintings, consisting of mainly diptychs & triptychs and some single works and lithographs, all created since 2004, will be exhibited.
[Image: Kay Yoshiya "Late Summer Day (detail)" (2012) acrylic on canvas 23.62 x 31.50 in.]
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from November 07, 2012 to November 20, 2012