BB Plaza is a different museum one might
suggest a intimate viewing space and instead of walking through it, one tends to swathe
through the sensual passions of artist’s aesthetics that are resonating from the
artworks on show within this wonderful exhibition.
In visiting this exhibition twice to see
several stunning artworks, the overall sensation reverberating from the art objects
is the artists’ touch, that nowadays in art appears seemingly uncommon and even overlooked as an old
fashioned idea in studio praxis, and nothing could be further from the truth for these artworks vibrate the passionate sensation of being made in the now.
This exhibition at BB Plaza Museum brings
into sharp focus something important within the fine arts and that is the human
sensibility of touch in creating a trace upon paper or canvas and how some
artists are so good at it. For example, Ando Hiroshige or Rembrandt as
evidenced within their studio praxis have created traces which one might call innate,
for their abilities in constructing drawn ink traces that are completely out
their own their own aesthetic horizons. But in saying that these afore
mentioned are born with such painting skills is not true they're acquired through
studio praxis in getting the traces to equal the intentionality’s of the idea.
And this show at BB Plaza Museum of Art has
some stunning examples of that mastering of traces constructed in studio praxis
towards the final image, gosh there is some gob smacking images from western and
Japanese painting systems, making it a unique and delightfully edgy show. It is
great to see two unique methodologies of painting exhibited side by side from
two distinctly differing cultures with the commonality of desires being highly intelligent
and sophisticated mark making constructed into an image from the likes of Marc
Chagall, Picasso, Renoir, Kanji Higashiyama, Takeji Fujishima and Ryohei Koiso.
A wonderful example of human traces in painting can be evidenced in Taiji Yamamoto’s painting of a White Flower and it is exquisite ( I went
back to see it twice), it so sublimely beautiful, strong yet fragile, it tends
to contain many of the elements that go beyond just ordinary painting in
terms of what human touch can achieve as painted traces on paper, and what
comes off the end of the brush through this painter’s scintillating facility in
the application of paint, transcends just the idea, its extreme passion in
creating an image, thus seducing the senses into an kind of aesthetic ecstasy.
If you're in Kobe here is the link to BB Plaza well worth going to see.
http://bbpmuseum.jp/
