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miniature garden
2007.5.12 (sat.) ~ 6.16 (sat.)
11:00~19:00
closed on Sunday, Monday and National holiday
Openning Reception : 5.12 18:00~20:00

Yuka Sasahara Gallery
3F Takahashi Bldg., 3-7 Nishi-gokencho Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162-0812
tel/fax: 03-5228-5616
info@yukasasaharagallery.com

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East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art
February 24, 2007−May 13, 2007
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 707
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
202.633.4880
202.357.4911 (fax)
http://www.asia.si.edu/

Subtly combining a traditional format with contemporary media, Flowering Plants of the Four Seasons (Spring, Summer, and Autumn) depicts the transformation of a landscape over time. With a seventeenth-century screen painting by Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674) commissioned for Ninomaru Palace in Kyoto as her reference point, Mami Kosemura arranged flowers and plants in her studio and digitally photographed them for several months. She then assembled those photographs in a collage to create a painting in which peonies and morning glories bloom and wither, while Japanese pampas grasses sway in gentle breezes. As branches grow verdant and bend with the weight of the passing seasons, the sounds of birdsong and rustling leaves further accentuate the experience of nature and its inevitable cycle of birth and decay. Winter, with its lack of vegetation, is represented in a separate work not shown here.
Scenes of idealized landscapes in different seasons are a common motif in traditional Japanese screen painting. Moving across the panels of a screen from right to left, the viewer typically would be drawn through successive scenes depicting each of the four seasons. By reinterpreting the formal composition of Tan'yu's work with moving image and sound, Kosemura is able to condense time and present in a single scene three of the seasons. Much like Tan'yu's screen painting, Kosemura conceived her work in the format of a fusuma, or pairs of sliding doors in a wooden frame.
Trained in oil and mural painting, Kosemura uses digital photography and video to explore the relationship between the "natural" appearance of objects in still life painting and the moving image, which can record the uncontrollable effects of change.

East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art has received generous
support from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group and Mr.
and Mrs. Farhad F. Ebrahimi.

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article for Asiatica

My work "Flowering Plants of the Four Seasons"was introduced on "ASIATICA" it is a newspaper that Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery issue.