Sharaku Interpreted By Japan’s Contemporary Artists
Visual Arts
Description
Description
Toshusai Sharaku was the most remarkable ukiyo-e artist from Edo Period in Japan. During his short-lived artistic career in the late 18th century, he produced over 140 works of woodblock printing in the span of 10 months.
This exhibition reinterprets Sharaku’s style in different parts – reprints of Sharaku’s most highly acclaimed single series of bust portraits from the Edo Kabuki and Kyogen plays in 1794 will be shown alongside related striking posters by graphic designers of our time. About 80 portraits and installations by 39 Japanese prominent artists, including Tadanori Yokoo, Takashi Murakami and Koichi Sato, will be shown to pay tribute to the ukiyo-e master via artistic creation, while at the same time demonstrate how Japanese contemporary art, design and comics are extended from the aesthetics of traditional Japanese woodblock printing.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2013" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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