Event
Date:March 24 – April 9, 2022
Hours:Thu 11:00am – 3:00pm / Fri, Sat & Sun 11:00am – 7:00pm
Closed:Mon, Tue, Wed (Open by appointment)
Admission:Free
http://www.hrdfineart.com/exb-pinerhino22-e.html
Venue
HRD Fine Art
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Access:494-1 Kamigoryo-tatemachi, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 602-0896 Japan
Tel:090-9015-6087
Overview
Introduction
HRD Fine Art is pleased to announce a two-man exhibition titled “Pine Tree / Rhinoceros Horn,” showcasing paintings of Midori Terashima and works of pottery of Tomoko Tsuda. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Pakupakuan, a gallery located in Aoyama, Tokyo.
Midori Terashima was born in Kyoto in 1972. She earned her MFA in painting at Kyoto City Unversity of Arts. Mainly working in oil painting, Terashima’s primary focus is abstract expression, always in search of the ways to create or visualize space on the surface of canvas, using a wide range of colors and various brushstrokes. Well known for her large-scale painting, Terashima has also been active in creating installation work as well as hosting painting workshops.
Tomoko Tsuda was born in Kyoto in 1975. She apprenticed herself to the famed Raku ware pottery master Yoshimura Rakunyu, and also studied at Kyoto Prefectural Pottery Vocational Training School and the Ceramics Course at Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Research. Currently working in her own pottery studio named “Biou Kiln,” located in Hanazono in Kyoto, Tsuda is creating a wide variety of ceramic wares, practicing different techniques not limited to her trademark, popular Raku tea bowls, and actively exhibiting her works nationwide.
While this exhibition’s main feature will be the two artists’ mainstay works, painting and pottery respectively, that are born from their everyday creation, there will also be some works resulting from the inspiration received from each other’s work. Words also play some part, where the two artists present their own favorite or inspiring maxims or mottos, and each artist creates artworks based on the counterpart’s chosen words, like a kind of dialogue through words and images. The exhibition title, “Pine Tree / Rhinoceros Horn” is taken from this dialogue: Tomoko Tsuda chose “Green of pine tree that lasts for one thousand years,” a Zen maxim; and Midori Terashima chose “Wander alone like a rhinoceros horn,” a phrase from the Buddhist scripture “Sutta Nipata.”
Terashima and Tsuda not only hail from the same city, Kyoto, are of the same generation, but they also share uncompromising, sincere attitude toward creation and exploration in art, though working in starkly different fields, namely painting and pottery. This exhibition aims to stage the clash of the two strong creative personalities, while also highlighting the harmonious reverberation between them.
