Recently while lost as usual in Osaka, then going into an underground train station to find my way home, one came across a university art exhibition in a largish space next to the train station subway walkway, its a great area to hold such an energetic show of students artworks.
It was very enjoyable to wonder around this University Exhibition in Osaka, it bought back many fond memories of my own art student days of study, which was very different from the electronic gadgetry that students seem to need nowadays, it was just a pencil and paper to draw on, for it was before the iphone, ipad or digital everything, yes sorry to say I am one of the last of the art dinosaurs but nonetheless that doesn't stop ones appreciate of the aesthetics efforts within this show which are very interesting.
One does not know who the artists are in this exhibition (as cant read Japanese) they exhibit equally and anonymously, so when looking at the artworks the experience is directed at the aesthetics and one of the first sensations realised is the energy these artists have, its impressive to see so many ideas produce in large and small artworks.
Plus what one also liked very much was the installation of the artworks, it wasn't compartmentalised into areas of painting, sculpture, printmaking, electronic arts etc..., one could walk around this space and engage a variety of aesthetic sensibilities, well placed next to each other, so presumably the audience could glean knowledge from each artists artworks in unity and diversity, so as a cohesive whole this show worked very well.
In leaving the Station to Station Exhibition what was realised is the next generation is there to take over from where the apriori group of artists when they leave this planet, to make there own tracks into uncharted aesthetic horizons, for like all the artists before them in history they are Driven. Many thanks to the artists who put on the exhibition a good experience!
