Nov 1 - Nov 16, 2014
10:00am-6:30pm
Closed: Wednesday (Open on Tuesday)
Exhibits: About 25 oil paintings
The artist will be in the gallery from Saturday, November 1 to Thursday, November 13.
Communion with the artists
■ Date & Time: Saturday, November 1, 17:00-19:30
■ Venue: Artland Gallery
■ Fee: Free of charge
We would like to have a time to enjoy the exchange with the artists. We look forward to seeing you there.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Seki Masakazu
1933 Born in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture
1948 Received the Kagawa Prefectural Exhibition Encouragement Award
1950 Selected for the Behavioral Art Exhibition
1952 Selected for Free Art Exhibition
1954 Moved to Tokyo and studied under Chozaburo Inoue
1957 Become a member of the Free Art Association
1968 Free Art Exhibition Free Art Award
1969 Exhibited at Contemporary Art Selection Exhibition (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
1982 Received the Tokyo Exhibition Award
1985 Became a judge for the Kagawa Prefectural Exhibition
Collection of works at Kagawa Prefecture Culture Hall
1986 Stay in France, Italy, Spain, England
1992 Solo exhibition at Kagawa Prefectural Cultural Center
1994 Solo exhibition at Marugame City Museum
2001 Solo exhibition at Galerie Lichtblick, staying in Germany, Holland, and Czech Republic
2016 Solo exhibition at Marugame City Museum
2020 passed away
Since 1982, many solo exhibitions at Art Gallery Tanaka, and since 1996, many solo and group exhibitions at Artland Gallery succeeded Art Gallery Tanaka.
Academism Seki Masakazu
I think someone mentioned this before, but when one of my seniors brought a young man and asked Mr. Inoue Chozaburo, “Please give him something to say about his painting," he replied, "You can do it freely. You can do whatever you want". I remember that he was very blunt in his reply.
His reply today was very curt, as if he was in a bad mood, but it left a strong impression on me.
Now that I am of his age, I feel that I understand how he felt. In other words, there is no academism in Japan. People tend to take the word "academism" as something that is stiff and hard to live with, but it is not academism in that sense. I remember when I was young and my friends and I were discussing a topic and I said, "He is an academic," with a hint of disdain, and Mr. Inoue, who was standing beside me, said, "Academics are important".
I once responded as follows: "No, among us, we often refer to something old-fashioned and unconventional as being academic.
Now, when people ask me what I mean by academic, I am unable to say. Perhaps that is why I am becoming more and more silent when people ask me about art. In other words, I am not talking about mere drawing techniques or the history of art. There seems to be some kind of framework that Japanese people do not understand. Without this skeleton, paintings will not be created, no matter how many times they are painted, and this will cause pain in old age.
Those who experience this pain are still cool-headed people. However, most of them create pictures based on their own taste and atmosphere, or they repeatedly go along with the ecole of the moment.
