Sei Arimori - The Interchanging of Light and Darkness

by Goodman, Jonathan & Arimori, Sei

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Book Description

New York: Walter Wickiser Gallery, 1999. Cover flat and shiny with very light handling wear. Pages clean and bright. 1999 Catalogue to accompany the July 29 - Aug. 24, 1999 exhibition. 29 pages, with color photos throughout. Includes large B&W photo of the artist. With 2-Page essay titled 'The Materials of Time' by Jonathan Goodman, and a 1-page essay by the artist titled 'The Interchanging of Light and Darkness'. Includes listing of group & solo exhibitions, education, selected collections, teaching experience. ABOUT THE ARTIST & EXHIBITION: The work of Japanese painter Sei Arimori begins with the idea that art is universal--the traditional dichotomy of Eastern and Western perception is not nearly so accurate in regard to spiritual achievement as the perception that all of humanity is part of nature. In this sense Arimori takes the grand view; in his exhibition and entitled “The Interchange of Light and Darkness,” he describes what he calls “a new world,” which reflects the cyclical nature of time and change in life. The history of time, he believes and may be “translated into the course of a single day.” Arimori's belief in and affection for the complex and binding universals in art and life are partly communicated through his materials. He uses tempera and urushi (lacquer) on wooden panels and layering abstract images in an aim to represent time. He believes that the transparent strata of his forms approximate time and as well as such elemental forces as discord and harmony-- opposites are subsumed through the use of disparate elements and such that concerns about stylistic categories drop away. The artist particularly admires the artists Klee and Pollock. His paintings follow these great artists' line of inquiry; abstract forms and mark-making take on a symbolic aspect in which the composition synthesizes Arimori's belief that the many reflects the one.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9.25" x 11.25". Exhibition Catalog. japanese art nature of time Tempera.

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