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The Green Gallery is delighted to present Ryu Takeda's first solo show outside of Japan, The Sixth Night. A group of paintings and a single drawing, mostly completed in the past year, make up this debut that allows contemporary abstraction and mingei aesthetics to coalesce on the picture plane. As the paintings are best described through the act of viewing them, the work is best represented through the artist's own words:
I decided to use the title "The Sixth Night," which is an allusion to Natsume Soseki's novel, Ten Nights' Dreams (Yume Jūya).
Natsume Soseki's Ten Nights' Dreams is a series of ten self-contained dream narratives, each beginning with the line, "I had a dream like this..." Although there is no single continuous storyline, through each dream, Soseki's sharp insights into the human psyche, life and death, love and solitude, and the era are depicted with a fantastical and symbolic touch. The Sixth Night, or the 6th story, features Unkei, a Japanese sculptor active about…
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The Green Gallery is delighted to present Ryu Takeda's first solo show outside of Japan, The Sixth Night. A group of paintings and a single drawing, mostly completed in the past year, make up this debut that allows contemporary abstraction and mingei aesthetics to coalesce on the picture plane. As the paintings are best described through the act of viewing them, the work is best represented through the artist's own words:
I decided to use the title "The Sixth Night," which is an allusion to Natsume Soseki's novel, Ten Nights' Dreams (Yume Jūya).
Natsume Soseki's Ten Nights' Dreams is a series of ten self-contained dream narratives, each beginning with the line, "I had a dream like this..." Although there is no single continuous storyline, through each dream, Soseki's sharp insights into the human psyche, life and death, love and solitude, and the era are depicted with a fantastical and symbolic touch. The Sixth Night, or the 6th story, features Unkei, a Japanese sculptor active about…
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