Kunstgalerie TAG bxl (kort voor The Accessible Gallery) in Brussel houdt in samenwerking met The Tolman Collection uit Tokyo de tentoonstelling “Look what happened to Japanese Prints”
TAG bxl, a young gallery specializing in emerging artists and accessible art, collaborates with the established Tolman Collection with more than thirty-six years in business.
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Norman Tolman, director of The Tolman Collection and the largest publisher of contemporary Japanese prints, was very impressed with the surface that TAG bxl can devote for proper artwork exhibition. As people may not be aware, in Tokyo where rents are unusually high, it is sometimes quite difficult to find spaces where multiple artworks can be rightfully displayed. Thus, in the late summer of 2014, Mrs Suo and Mr Tolman started to imagine what kind of exhibition could be offered to European audiences. Mr Tolman’s idea was to show Japanese Woodblock prints that are truly contemporary. As a result, the two galleries selected the works of the artists Yuichi Hasegawa, Yoshikatsu Tamekane and Hidehiko Goto. These works will be displayed at an exhibition in March, where the stronger pieces will shine while the subtler works will supplement them as actors do in a play where everyone plays a role in the main plot. This set up will invite Brussels art lovers to open their minds to what Japanese artists are doing now.
The goal of the exhibition is to show the level to which Japanese art has risen since the long gone days of ukiyo-e* (depicting traditional images of samurais and geishas) which is the image that people often have in mind when thinking about Japanese art. Forty-three pieces by the internationally recognized artists Hasegawa, Tamekane and Goto are exhibited.
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The exhibition also displays a video, from the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints, with explanations of the usage of the ‘Baren’ and the woodblock print technique. This video is graciously lent by Museums of the Far East (Royal Museums of Art and History).
*Waar: *TAG bxl, Rue des Renards 1A, 1000 Brusselhttp://tag-bxl.be/look-what-happened-to-japanese-prints/
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