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Asia Week New York 16 AWNY Gallery Shows & Online AWNY Gallery Shows & Online 17 surface of the object is incised with a fne Our Field Artillery chisel, then inlaid with gold and lead. Attacks the Enemy 521 West 26th Street, NY 10001. Camp at Jiuliancheng For gallery hours, tel 212 695 8035, (1894), by Kobayashi onishigallery.com Kiyochika ASIA WEEK NEW YORK (1847-1915), ON THE VANGUARD woodblock print Meiji Period triptych, It is very good news, indeed, that Asia Week New York is going ahead, UTAGAWA KUNISADA Woodblock Prints 14 3/4 by 28 7/8 in, despite the difculties involved in arranging the event this year during Four bronze long-horned bulls His World Revisited Scholten Japanese Art, Scholten Japanese Art the pandemic and Covid 19 restrictions. To overcome the many and a horse, Sebastian Izzard 11 to 20 March, hurdles, this year is a hybrid event – by appointment only supported by Western Han dynasty, 15 to 26 March, by appointment only and online leading the way – by balancing society’s JAPANESE PRINTS online exhibitions. Some dealers, who have galleries in New York City, 3rd-1st century BC, by appointment only and online Tis show focuses on the creative intermittent longing for ‘Old Japan’ Hara Shobo are choosing to open their spaces whilst complying with Covid 19 state lengths On show is a selection paintings, expression seen in Meiji-era prints and while adapting, and even embracing, a 11 to 20 March, online only 17.8 to 24.8 cm, woodblock prints, and illustrated books the acceptance of new cultural ideas in changing world. View of Pleasure Boats at Ryogoku, the Maki-e gold lacquer box by Yoshio safety laws, as well as an online presence on Asia Week New York’s Kaikodo Okada (b 1977), 2020, from Tensho website. Other participants, obviously including the overseas dealers, by the 19th century ukiyo-e master the Japanese populace at large during One artist who successfully navigated Eastern Capital (toto ryogoku yusen no Utagawa Kunisada. Te contents of this this dynamic period in the late 19th and that dichotomy was Tsukioka zu), is a polychrome triptych woodcut (Celestial Phenomenon) series, are having online contributions only this year. Thomsen Gallery Tis is the 12th annual week and, as usual, it coincides with the exhibition cover most aspects of early 20th century. Te Meiji period Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). Te exhibition by Utagawa Hiroshige, and a highlight Spring sales at the auction houses – with physical and online sales. Kunisada’s long career; many of them (1868-1912), defned by the reign of features an impression of the iconic of the online show at Hara Shobo in We have been able to include museum exhibitions in the guide, some rare examples of his fnest works. Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), was an era work popularly known as Te Flute Tokyo. It is a traditional scene depicting Included are fve of the seven prints that Sawamura Sojuro III as Ume no of rapid modernization as Japan Player Triptych, published in 1883. pleasure boats on the Sumida River required for his extraordinary Tensho, are currently open, but please check with each institution on their Yoshibei, also Known as Tosshi by safety policies and opening times. make up Greatest Hit Plays, a series from transformed from a feudal society based Providing fascinating context, the show with people gathering to celebrate (Celestial Phenomena) series. Alongside 1815 featuring images of leading Kabuki Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), on samurai culture into a modern nation. includes prints illustrating the ‘Flute beginning of summer and view the Tensho series, the gallery is ofering Asia Week New York’s online hosting for the event goes live 7/1863, colour woodblock print, oban actors in celebrated past performances. Te prints in this show explore how Player’ by his follower Yoshu Chikanobu freworks from the Ryogoku Bridge, on seven boxes with jellyfsh designs, on their website on 11 March and continues until 20 March. Te set is notable for the reintroduction tate-e, 39.4 x 26.4 cm, from the artists recorded and responded to the (1838-1912) from the same year; his the riverbank of the Sumida River. including a special set of fve fnished Asian Art Newspaper is also posting our Asia Week guide on the of mica backgrounds, a stencilled series Untitled Series of Okubi-e Actors introduction of foreign elements, at teacher, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797- Tel +81 3 5212 7801, last year, each of them brilliantly website with all the relevant links. surface little used since the mid-1790s. Past and Present, Sebastian Izzard times resisting the march toward 1861) from 1845; as well as a later harashobo.com exploiting the painstaking, progressive At the end of his career, between 1860 modernity by embracing nostalgia. printing of Yoshitoshi’s frst attempt at nature of lacquer decoration to create Shingu Sayaka (b 1979), is a and 1864, Kunisada embarked on a the elements in surprising ways that Ultimately, the artists who prevailed the subject which he designed in 1868. YOSHIO OKADA the illusion of creatures swimming at CLICK HERE CLICK HERE highlight of the show – Erosion, a large series of prints featuring close-up were defantly unconventional and were those that were on the vanguard – Another section of the show looks at Thomsen Gallery diferent depths in clear ocean waters. for the latest for the latest ceramic sculpture from 2021. Te portraits of actors in their most famous characteristically ‘Rosanjin’. the military vanguard – literally on the 11 to 20 March, 9 East 63rd Street 2/F, NY 10065. AWNY website info Asian Art Newspaper artist is recognised for her ceramic roles. Te set, Untitled Series of Okubi-e 39 East 78th Street, Suite 401, NY front lines – with a group of prints by appointment only and online For gallery hours, tel 212 288 2588, fowers series, in which she expresses Actors Past and Present, was planned as a 10075. related to the First Sino-Japanese War Te lacquer artist Yoshio Okada creates thomsengallery.com a feeling of transience, feetingness, monument to his career, with no For gallery hours tel 212 799 4021, (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese War dramatic lacquer work that refects the and immortality. expense spared in the production of the mirviss.com (1904-05). Drawn primarily from a skills of the great masters of the Edo SELECTIONS OF 18 East 64th Street,1/F, NY 10065. prints and used the most expensive private collection, the avant-garde artist period. Reaching back to an era of JAPANESE ART For gallery hours, tel 212 230 1680, paper and elaborate printing techniques THE ETERNAL Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) is Japan’s great cultural assimilation from Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art daiichiarts.com including burnishing and gaufrage, BEAUTY OF METAL well-represented in the exhibition with the Asian continent during the 6th to 11 to 20 March, online only crushed mother-of-pearl, and on Onishi Gallery examples of his innovative Western- 8th centuries, Okada frequently adopts A highlight this year from the online CHIURA OBATA occasion even gold wash. 11 to 20 March, infuenced landscapes as well as several the ancient, all-but-forgotten kanshitsu show is a 12th-century fgure of Figure seated on a lotus, Buddhist Woodblock Prints Also featured in the exhibition are by appointment only and online of his most evocative war prints, (dry lacquer) method, originally used to Gozu-Tenno, a menacing Shinto bronze, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), And Paintings prints from the series Te Tirty-two One of the most recent works that including the triptych from 1894, Our create Buddhist statuary. Combining deity depicted with hair rising up height 13 cm; and bronze sculptural Egenolf Gallery Contemporary Types, long regarded as Osumi Yukie has produced, Araiso, or Silver Vase (2020), Araiso (Rough Field Artillery Attacks the Enemy Camp at layers of hemp cloth with the dark, like fames and two bull horns group of the Birth of Sakyamuni, Ming 11 to 20 March, online only Kunisada’s masterpiece in the feld of ‘Rough Shore’, references the artist’s Shore), by Osumi Yukie (b 1945), Jiuliancheng. sticky sap of the lacquer tree (Rhus emerging from its head. Gozu- dynasty, height of bronze without base One of the highlights in this single- beauty prints, and Fashionable Makeup signature motif: the ceaseless movement Living National Treasure, hammered 145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D, vernicifua), he bends (so to speak) Tenno, known as Ox-Headed 18.2 cm, Zetterquist Galleries artist exhibition by Chiura Obata (1885- Mirrors, in which women from various of nature. Osumi employs a centuries- silver with nunome zogan (textile imprint NY 10019. For gallery hours, kanshitsu to his creative ends, kneading Heavenly King, is deity of disease 1975) is Evening Glow at Mono Lake, walks of life are shown intimately old technique known as nunomezogan, inlay) decoration in lead and gold, tel 212 585 0474, the fabric before the lacquer hardens and and healing, who was thought to collections. Highlights include two from Mono Mills (1930), one of the best engaged in preparing themselves for the or ‘textile imprint inlay’ in which the 27.1 x 25.3 x 25.3 cm, Onishi Gallery scholten-japanese-art.com moulding it to form the special shapes Continued on page 18 mini-collections of ancient Chinese and prints from the World Landscape Series: day, their visages framed within the Chinese Imperial, green-ground, porcelain bowl, Kangxi mark and period, Southeast Asian objects ranging from America. Obata collaborated with the borders of a black hand mirror case. circa late 17th century, decorated inside and out with ‘eight sacred horses leaping the Shang to Ming dynasties.
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