Takayuki Yamada “Kingdom of God”

Caelum Gallery

poster for Takayuki Yamada  “Kingdom of God”

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Takayuki Yamada is a draughtsman who draws on a large scale, ten feet or more. This scale works to his advantage in depicting his theme of a vast heaven. His vision of heaven is partially terrestrial in that it is located on a ceiling of clouds that is either punctured by a mountain peak or appears to just cover it. It is a lonely heaven, unpopulated by anything visible besides clouds, but it is majestic. In each picture there is a single witness to this vision, a male or female. They seem to be visitors like Dante in the Divine Comedy, and they sit, levitating, enjoying the immense expanse before them.

The works are on two layered papers with conte pencil and sumi ink on western paper mounted on a panel, with highlights in acrylic paint on Japanese paper. The vision the artist creates is in grey scales from dark to light that enhance the cloud motif. The viewer can speculate on Yamada’s intent. Are the works meditations on the afterlife or on the dichotomy of the physical, the mountain and the figures, and the spiritual as represented by amorphous clouds? His intent aside, the works are ambitious, mysterious and moving.

Yamada has happened to have curiosity and interest to find the meaning of the story in old bible recently. He found the reality of the creation of the world according to the proof by advanced science research. The works in this exhibition were made after he traveled in Bokhara, Nepal. There he flu on the cloud by ultra light plane like a hung rider with engine and saw magnificent earth through bird eye.

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Schedule

from April 07, 2015 to April 25, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-04-09 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Takayuki Yamada

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