S TSUJIMURA HANGING SCROLL
USD 3,900.00
Artist | Shiro Tsujimura
Material | Ink on washi paper, mounting silk with decorative brocade silk borders (The mounting craft and conservation techniques are considered an art unto itself)
Origin | Japan
Dimensions | W51cm H83cm
Product Number | #0165
Additional Note | This work comes with a box. The paulownia box is made to fit the work and the artist signs it, inscribed ' ◯ △ ▢ '.
Artist Profile | Shiro Tsujimura was born in the Nara Prefecture in 1947. After graduating from high school, he went to Tokyo to study oil painting, where he struggled with the medium and came to believe his problem might be spiritual. He made an exploratory trip to northern Japan, lived in a Buddhist temple and studied Zen.
New York Times commends his work with the following words: "For a look at some of the most expressive abstract painting around, check out the new ceramics by the Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura at Koichi Yanagi. Mr. Tsujimura, who was born in 1947 and trained in a Zen temple before becoming a potter, is self-taught, prolific and wide open to all kinds of traditional styles and forms, which he makes entirely his own."
Being one of the most prominent contemporary ceramic artists of our time and considered as a living legend in Japan, Tsujimura was honoured with a solo chadogu exhibition at the Kyoto Chado Shiryokan in 1999. His works may be viewed in many permanent public collections worldwide, including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Chado Research Centre Gallery in Kyoto.
His practice defies conventional modes of expression in his genre. All of his creations are pure and spiritual, where the passing of time and the art of imperfection play an important role.