2018年12月7日金曜日

Exhibition (EN): Dark Light


New work  by  Ebony Rose

Dates: 2018.12.9- 2019.1.27 10am- 17pm  Fri, Sat, Sun (Closed 12.14- 1.6)
Opening: 2018.12.8 2pm-4pm

The artist would like to acknowledge support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Please contact Yamakiwa Art Hotel for the details.
問い合わせは下記の連絡先までお願い致します。
E. info@yamakiwagallery.com T. 025-594-7667



When the tongues of flames are in-folded into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.[1]” -T.SElliot

While an artist in residence at Yamakiwa Gallery (Mountain Edge Gallery) Ebony Rose has created a new installation and a series of drawings in response to the traditional Japanese farmhouse setting and her exchanges with the villagersThe installation continues through multiple spaces and common to Rose’s work there is an evocation and experiencing of time: the presentthe residue touch of the handand phenomenon changing.In this new body of work darkness is emphasized and death alluded toInspired by the Japanese Zen word shoji that translates to life-death where these two words are only separated and connected by a small hyphen[2]in this installation death and dark to life and light are not so much separate entities but parts of the whole.


In the entranceway water puddles on the floor in the shape of organic and perfect circles and cindered lotus roots are frozen in a block of iceThey act as a threshold and stopping measure where one has to navigate around an obstructed path to get to the doorTransformed lotus roots that are frozena block of ice resembling a gravestone that meltswater in the shape of a circle evaporating conjure life cyclesloss and a wider scope of timeOn opposite walls are drawings of a cross-section of the lotus rootThe cross-section consists of holes for oxygen that appear in the form of a flower-like shapeThe root is drawn both representationally and abstracted further to resemble the lotus flower.

In another space (the attic of the farmhouse) columns of cut shoji paper intersect two rooms and vanish into darknessShoji doorsa common feature in Japanese architecture and found throughout the Yamakiwa Gallery farmhouse are sliding doorsThrough the sliding of a door one space becomes two or two spaces become one[3]The paper has been folded with various line patterns that replicate and build onto existing patterning within the buildingCut outs of organic circle shapes stand in as voids and holes that also replicate the circles found throughout the installationThe columns stand somewhere between monumental and diaphanousWhere in the previous space the materials of water and earth were close to the groundin the attic space there is a heavenly quality where long white columns stand in a dim room and gently move with the breezeSubtle washes of colour cast from the window glow on their surfaces where very fine lines from the folding are presentThe view through the window are treesthe garden or snowweather dependentand a small graveyard.

In a room adjacent to the installation there are watercolours of the rose which also echo the lotusThe roses oscillate between dimensional and silhouetted and they hang near a shoji window where silhouettes of plants are shadowed onto the surface at various times in the dayThe repetition with the rose drawings alludes to practice and getting-to-know intimatelyThe pairing of these two flowersthe lotus (in the ice) and the rose (in the drawings) were also based on the meeting between Rose and the villagersShe was inspired by the continual acts of kindness(Each day one of the resident villagers would drop prepared food or vegetables at the doorstepAnother villager generously taught her the craft of charring plantsin particular charring lotus roots)Rose made numerous rose studiesseventeen of which to give to the seventeen households in the villageShe chose the rose as a symbol from her home and also because of the parallel symbolism of both the rose and the lotus.


[1] EliotT.SFour Quartets, Little Gidding, (HarcourtBrace & Co,1944).
[2] Ostaseski, Frank. Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us about Living Fully, (Flatiron Books, 2018, p. 1).
[3] Grande, John K. Balance: Art and Nature, (Black Rose Books, 2014).

0 件のコメント:

コメントを投稿