Yactac is please to present Kenji Fujii, our first visiting artist since the launch of the Yactac Artist in Residence Program.
Originally from Yokohama Japan, Kenjii has participated in numerous group shows and is an emergent in the international art platform. He has participated locally as a self directed resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts as well as internationally as a chosen representer of Yokohama at Icheon Art Platform and Geumcheon Art Space in Seoul Korea.
Fujii’s practice investigates contemporary social-political, and environmental issues through the traditional asian medium ink drawings.
In the case of Rainy Day opening Saturday July 21st, 2012 from 7pm-11pm, he will be installing in the gallery space. Show opens until July 31, 2012 by appointment.
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“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
I was asked this question from the Zen monk at Choju-ji temple around dusk, right after I sketched in the temples’ garden, in the spring of 2005. Since then, even if I have tried many times, I cannot get the answer for this short Koan case which was made by Hakuin Ekaku (1686 – 1768).
Hakuin was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism as well as being recognized as one of the greatest Japanese Zen painters. His paintings were meant to capture Zen values, serving as “visual sermons” that were extremely popular among the laypeople of the time.
Rainy day will be a new work, triggered from the Zen question I received in 2005 as well as from my job experience as a cleaner for 2 years.
Cleaning is all about erasing, but there is a final process of the waxing the floor for shining its surface. I saw a pond when I looked into waxed wooden floor reflecting its surroundings.
During that time, some questions arose in my mind. Does cleaning mean erasing, but if there is nothing, how you can clean? Does shiny equal beautiful? Why do people want to shine the floor? We already know lots of chemicals including one for waxing the floor makes environment, especially water, dirty.
Vapor rise up to the sky,
Clouds are moving freely on the sky.
If you see rain drops inside the house,
Where did they come from?
20/April/2012, Kenji Fujii
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Yactac is please to present Kenji Fujii, our first visiting artist since the launch of the Yactac Artist in Residence Program.
Originally from Yokohama Japan, Kenjii has participated in numerous group shows and is an emergent in the international art platform. He has participated locally as a self directed resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts as well as internationally as a chosen representer of Yokohama at Icheon Art Platform and Geumcheon Art Space in Seoul Korea.
Fujii’s practice investigates contemporary social-political, and environmental issues through the traditional asian medium ink drawings.
In the case of Rainy Day opening Saturday July 21st, 2012 from 7pm-11pm, he will be installing in the gallery space. Show opens until July 31, 2012 by appointment.
—–
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
I was asked this question from the Zen monk at Choju-ji temple around dusk, right after I sketched in the temples’ garden, in the spring of 2005. Since then, even if I have tried many times, I cannot get the answer for this short Koan case which was made by Hakuin Ekaku (1686 – 1768).
Hakuin was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism as well as being recognized as one of the greatest Japanese Zen painters. His paintings were meant to capture Zen values, serving as “visual sermons” that were extremely popular among the laypeople of the time.
Rainy day will be a new work, triggered from the Zen question I received in 2005 as well as from my job experience as a cleaner for 2 years.
Cleaning is all about erasing, but there is a final process of the waxing the floor for shining its surface. I saw a pond when I looked into waxed wooden floor reflecting its surroundings.
During that time, some questions arose in my mind. Does cleaning mean erasing, but if there is nothing, how you can clean? Does shiny equal beautiful? Why do people want to shine the floor? We already know lots of chemicals including one for waxing the floor makes environment, especially water, dirty.
Vapor rise up to the sky,
Clouds are moving freely on the sky.
If you see rain drops inside the house,
Where did they come from?
20/April/2012, Kenji Fujii
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