“The screens feature nameless field grasses depicted with such grace, elegance, and care that it makes one honor even these most mundane of plants. Just as the artist of the screens did, I would like to revisit a commonplace everyday scene from today’s Japan, and just as the screens embody a smooth flow from one season to the next, I hope to capture, in my work, the graceful transition of a Japanese landscape from the past to the present.” — Takahiro Iwasaki.
Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons. Japan; Edo period, ca. 1620-1650. Pair of six-panel folding screens; color and ink on gold leaf on paper. Each 63 x 143 in. (160.0 x 363.2 cm). Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Acquisitions Fund, 1985. Photo by Corrado Serra
Takahiro Iwasaki (b. 1975; Hiroshima, Japan). In Focus installation. Out of Disorder (Folding Scenery), 2015. Six Plexiglas boxes. Acrylic, aluminum, kimonos. Photo by Corrado Serra
Photographs by Corrado Serra
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