Hiroshi Asada "Retrospective"
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
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Hiroshi Asada (1931-1997), whose father (Asada Benji) and older brother (Asada Takashi) are both renowned nihonga (Japanese-style paintings) artists, made repeated presentations of his works to the Shinseisaku Association and thereby established a world of serene imagined scenery that can be described as figurative poetry through the medium of painting. He was a part of the 1965 exhibition of contemporary art at MOMAK. In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of his death, the museum presents the first retrospective spanning the entirety of his career.
Art Talk "Hiroshi Asada and Myself in Paris”: August 11th (Sat) 14:00-15:00
Symposium "Why Hiroshi Asada?" August 17th (Sat) 13:30-17:00
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[Image: Hiroshi Asada "Event on the Red Earth ‘76" (1976) Courtesy of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto]
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from July 31, 2007 to September 17, 2007
Closes at 20:00 on Fridays and 8/16. Open on 9/17
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Obsessed with the super-real
By Matthew Larking
Special to The Japan Times
Without knowing the dreamer's associations — as Sigmund Freud admonished the early French Surrealists — it is pointless to interpret Asada's final signature and late works to reveal his secret life. Pictures, however lamentably, do not explain anything ...
I've always been confused with Japanese painters who paint with oil. I sometimes see it as mere imitation from western influences. In this case in the realm of surrealism, psychoanalysis, repetitive motifs, etc. The image seen in the icon above was for me, the strongest piece. It struck me with an atmosphere hard to describe; is it a place on earth? or is it somewhere out of space? This exhibition is recommended for those who enjoy to think ... deeply...