Sakutei 2022 -
The name "Sakutei" originates in a Japanese term for the creation of gardens.
The works are landscape paintings made by finely cutting up pieces of washi paper colored using mineral pigments and earth pigments, and assembling the pieces in a semi-three-dimensional manner atop the canvases. The shadows and depth created by the raised pieces of paper lend a calm presence to the canvases. Drawing inspiration from the realization that a Japanese-style garden is a landscape painting created using nature and from the gardener's stance of creating the garden through the accumulation of small deliberate acts, the works explore expression that lies between the painting and the creation of landscapes, quietly connecting the acts of seeing and making.
Sakuteiは、日本語の「作庭」という言葉に由来する。
岩絵具や土絵具で彩色した和紙を細かく切り出し、キャンバスに半立体的に組み上げて作る風景画。立ち上がった紙片が生み出す陰影や奥行きが、画面に静かな存在感をもたらす。日本庭園が自然を使った風景画であるという気づきや、庭師が小さな作為を積み重ねて作庭する姿勢に着想を得て、風景を描くことと作ることのあいだの表現を探るとともに、見ることと作ることをひそやかに繋いでいく。
Selected works
Sakutei - Spring Brook 2024
Mineral pigments, earth pigments, washi paper, wheat starch paste
32 x 41 x 2 cm
Sakutei - Summer Grasses 2024
Mineral pigments, washi paper, wheat starch paste
32 x 41 x 2 cm
Sakutei - Autumn Leaves 2024
Mineral pigments, washi paper, wheat starch paste
32 x 41 x 2 cm
Sakutei - Winter Sea 2024
Mineral pigments, washi paper, wheat starch paste
32 x 41 x 2 cm
Sakutei - Heavenly Bamboo 2025
Mineral pigments, earth pigments, washi paper, wheat starch paste
14 x 18 x 2 cm
Sakutei - Willow Tree 2025
Mineral pigments, washi paper, wheat starch paste
14 x 18 x 2 cm
Photography Kohei Yamamoto