An exhibition of some 80 artworks created by a famous Japanese artist Ichino Hiromichi opened at the Shanghai Wutong Art Museum in the city's Jiading district, on Dec 10, and will run until Jan 5, 2017.
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Visitors admire artworks created by a Japanese artist Ichino Hiromichi at an exhibition held at the Shanghai Wutong Art Museum in Jiading district from Dec 10 to Jan 5, 2017. [Photo/jiading.gov.cn] |
The exhibition delves into the relationship that people have with various landscapes, and features installations, paintings, prints, engravings, and relief works.
A particular highlight is an installation named Landscape, consisting of 25 three-layered stacks of white wooden plates, and each stack consists of plates of irregular shapes and different sizes but all in squares of the same area 58.5 cm x 58.5 cm. The arrangements of plates in each stack are unique without repetition.
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An installation named Landscape designed by a Japanese artist Ichino Hiromichi, demonstrates the freedom within the rules of art creation. [Photo/jiading.gov.cn] |
Fan Zhongming, host of the exhibition, said that the Ichino's consept was to examine the relationship between rules and change.
Ichino Hiromichi, born in Japan's Kyoto in 1951, graduated with a design major at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1975. He now works at a Tokyo's design school and has exhibited his works in cities across the world, such as Tokyo, Paris, and Shanghai.