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- Kobayashi Shumei
- Mitsumoto Takeshi
- Nakano Kaoru
- Oyama Yasuyuki
- Kise Hiroshi
- Kaneko Toru
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Comments above & below by Edmund Capon AM OBE (1940 – 2019) and the artist
@ Maio Motoko Extraordinary Perspectives 2016, Sofitel Melbourne
FOLDING & UNFOLDING
On her signature work
I was greatly encouraged and overwhelmed with the artistic and creative possibilities of the form of the Japanese screen.
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Maio Motoko
Now one could be forgiven for saying well, that is all a bit over the top - this almost spiritual eulogising of the humble, or not so humble after all, folding screen, but I can see the artist’s feelings here – sense of the screen being a metaphor for a culture and at the same time a kind of metaphor for a life – the folding and unfolding, the revelation and the retreat, the opening and the closing, the process and then the stillness.
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Remarks by Edmund Capon AO OBE
18 January 2017
Speech given at The Sofitel on Collins, Melbourne
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