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In 2016 the curated exhibition "Wordsworth and Basho: Walking Poets" was held at the Itami City Art Museum Kakimori Bunko (Hyogo, Japan). The exhibition assembled some of the original manuscripts of historic poets: English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and Japanese Haiku poet in the Edo period Matsuo Basho, alongside artworks created by over 20 contemporary artists from the UK and Japan. Kakimori Bunko is a museum-library for the Kakimori Collection, one of the world's three major collections of haiku poetry and painting including original manuscripts of Matsuo Basho. There is nothing in common between Wordsworth and Basho, except walking for their creative inspiration. After being invited to participate in this project, I explored the essential link between them in their poems and life. "Walking Poets" is my attempt at their dialogue beyond time and space, language and culture. For this project, I created a quadriptych work representing a Japanese traditional fusuma-e (sliding door painting). I portrayed Wordsworth and Basho facing each other across time and space, culture and language. As a way of visually linking the two poets, I depicted a maple tree symbolically. The maple appears in poems composed by Basho and was loved by Wordsworth. He planted Japanese maple trees in his garden at Rydal Mount. To get a true likeness of Basho, I developed it by referring to the portrait by Basho’s favourite disciple, Kyoriku, which depicts Basho with his disciple Sora on the trip to the ‘Narrow Road to the Deep North’. Concerning Basho's posture, I referred to the work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, the prominent Ukiyo-e artist at the end of the Edo period. The gold colour in the background was inspired by Japanese traditional paintings. Gold leaf was often used to express the importance of a patron, but I used gold acrylic paint instead to portray the two poets’ humble and naturalistic lifestyles which were reflected in their poetry. This work is only available with prints.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:12 W x 6 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:17.25 W x 11.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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Hideyuki Sobue (b. 1965) lives and works in the Lake District, UK, yet grew up as an orphan in Aichi, Japan. Working with drawing and painting, two historic media that have served as a fundamental means of communication since prehistoric times, he explores the unbroken line in the relationship between art and humanity. Sobue uses an entirely original brush hatching technique employing Japanese sumi ink and acrylic. Created through a fusion of influences - the concept of Disegno in the Florentine school of the Renaissance, oriental artistic heritage and neurological studies - Sobue’s medium attempts to create a platform bridging east and west, and explore the interdisciplinary approach related to the human act of seeing. Sobue has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Japan. Notable exhibitions include “A Letter to the Earth from Beatrix” commissioned by the National Trust and supported by Arts Council England
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