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Black & White
Editor's Note
Written by Takeshi HIRATA   
Published: December 04 2009

The shining illuminations color the town in this Christmas season. However, this excessive coloring doesn't impress me at all though this is a typical spectacle in Tokyo of December. Should we revalue “monochrome” at the power of deep, various extension and variegation? In this exhibition, the artists from Japan, Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany respectively express “black&white” which are warmer, more brilliant, and beautiful than the illumination of the town. When slowly looking as changing the seen angle, you would begin to see a different aspect and layer on the merely black and white painting. You would also find that the brush strokes or the layers of paints being piled up makes the black and white variegated. The color darkness doesn't depend on the received sense. For instance, let's see "untitled (609)" (2008) of Dirk Rathke, in which the tender black doesn't correspond the meaning of “darkness” while we are impressed with the advanced technique at the merely a transformation canvas with a slight curve. Do not judge the color from the color alone seen on the surface of the painting. If you pay more attention to the monochrome variation, you would find the respectively different impression. When you noticed it, you would also know the richness of monochrome which any illumination cannot be applied.

Last Updated on May 31 2010
 

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