Uemura Atsushi: Oiseaux de Brume, Oiseaux de Lune
Espace des Arts, Mitsukoshi-Etoile

Recent works and selections from the span of Uemura Atsushi's career, as well as the works by his father Uemura Shôkô, return to Paris after a fourteen-year hiatus. Two masters of traditional Japanese painting, they render the naturalist and figurative tradition with poetic sensitivity and a unique sense of modernity.

Japanese pictorial tradition relies on the natural world for its symbols as a means of expressing human experience, character and spirit. Birds in their natural habitat and existence become avatars, or incarnations, of man in his. Visually grounded in reality but executed with flawless technique, it is in this space that visual poetry – the aim of Japanese painting – arises.

Influenced by Chinese masters of the Song and Yuan dynasties, though deeply rooted in Japanese tradition, these works are a contemplative study of movement and mastery in their intuition and simplicity.


October 23 through December 22, 2007
3, rue de Tilsitt
75008 Paris
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