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Bamboo Man of Power (dedicated to Sakutaro Hagiwara)
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Written by Satoshi KOGANEZAWA   
Published: November 24 2008

 copy right(c)2007 AMPG

 copy right(c)2007 AMPG

As the reply to "Bamboo" (published in "Howling at the Moon" in 1917) by Sakutaro Hagiwara, he created a bamboo grove consisting of one bamboo and twenty-five photo panels. Sakutaro focused on elements of the "field" such as the "ground", the "underground", and the "root". On the other hand, Azuma hung them from the ceiling using wires, and succeeded in giving the sharply growing bamboo a mysterious floating sense. Starting from the complicated interlocked roots, our gaze is paradoxically turned to the "field". The core of this work is not a solid growing trunk but a root usually hidden underground. Azuma found strength in life where Sakutaro found melancholy.

In "Flower Artist Makoto Azuma's point of view (1) Rin School" in "Casa BRURUS" No.104, November 2008, published by Magazine House, Azuma delivered an artwork inspired by "Bamboo and plum tree" by Korin Ogata (in the 18th century, this belonged to Tokyo National Museum) (Photograph by Shunsuke Shiinoki). He made the background in gold by using a folding screen, and gathered several bamboos and put them in parallel. It is an extremely simple structure but he grasped perfectly the essence of a bamboo and the concept of the Rin School.


Data
Artist: Maoto Azuma
Year: 2007
Genre: Installation
Owner: AMPG
Material: bamboo, photo panel
Size: H2,500 x W1,500 x D1,500 (bamboo size) , H610 x W510 x D1 (panel size)
Note: AMPG 8th Exhibition (November 1st - 20th, 2007)
Exhibition Style: three-dimensional work, photo panels (25), concept sheet
Last Updated on November 01 2015
 

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