Art Collaboration Kyoto Satellite Program

What's in the House-Representation

Artist:Shinya Yamada, Antiques & Art Masa

Dates: November 17(Thursday)-23(Wednesday, holiday) 12:00-17:00
Venue: Yuhisai Kodokan (524-1 Mototomikado, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto)

Organizer: Pulse of Silence Executive Committee
Admission: 1,000 yen (for green tea)

Shinya Yamada's work is rooted in Eastern philosophy and depicts the inner self, a return to one's origins, and the world of silence that extends to the inner edges of the self. The fragments of abstract images created by facing one's inner self are spat out on the canvas through deformation and physical acts of drawing with a unique visual language, and become works with a certain universality and beauty, throwing messages to us.

This exhibition will be held in the Yuhisai Koudoukan, which is usually closed to the public. It is the site of a scholarly school founded by Minagawa Kien, a Confucian scholar of the middle Edo period and a friend of many cultural figures, including Maruyama Okyo. Minagawa Kien founded "Kaimonogaku," a unique and difficult study, which is derived from "Kaimon Seimu" in the Confucian scripture "Yi Jing" (I Ching). Kaimono" means "to reveal" things, and it was an attempt to clarify the relationship between "names" and "things. We give names to everything. We give everything a name because only when we have a name do we recognize it as such. People understand meaning through words, but in ancient times, people communicated naturally and ideally, without personal preconceptions. He believed that the interpretation of scripture is a matter of subjective thought that causes disagreement and cannot be resolved by the "intellect," and that it is the "senses" that transcend the limits of the intellect, and that the voice that is naturally felt and uttered contains meaning.

Presenting this exhibition as an installation at the former school where Kien pursued his endless contemplation is meaningful in itself, and through works fundamentally rooted in Eastern thought, the exhibition invites viewers into the world of "imaginative representation". "Imaginative representation" refers to inner objects that appear in the mind through each person's own thinking, as distinct from objects of perception; we hope that viewers will turn their attention to the state of their own inner mind and feel a world of silence. As ACK is an international art fair, we hope that, along with the artworks, visitors will also enjoy the beautiful garden, the tea room and its furnishings, and that the exhibition will be an opportunity to experience the culture, thought and values that Japan has cultivated over the ages.