18.11.2024 Mon
Seki-city
Toko Shinoda

Toko Shinoda: Impulse from Within

Information

Number of items exhibited
29
Period
April 7 (Tue.) to June 6 (Sat.), 2020
Closed
2nd and 4th Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays; also closed May 2, May 15–18, 2020
Admission
Free

About the Exhibition

Although characters are her basic elements, she places greater emphasis on the work seen in its entirety in the context of abstract painting than on the meaning of each character. Even if she has been away from the work of calligraphy for a while, she writes in an essay, when she rubs the sumi inkstick over her inkstone and takes up her brush, she sometimes feels the impulse to brush characters. When she experiences this unannounced impulse, she imagines characters and tries to give them some kind of visible form.
This exhibition shows some of the works by Toko—whose close relationship with calligraphy began when she was a young girl—that feature her favorite characters and phrases.