After Yotsuya Art Studium, the amazing and radical art school we had in Tokyo was forcefully shut down earlier this year by Kinki university (Im not making fun, thats their real name) who hosted us, Kenjiro Okazaki and other people who were central to YAS have created another platform called the Post Studium. They have a space above a post office (and across a fire station) in Kokubunji (hence, among other things, the name), and are organizing exhibitions, theoretical forums, classes, research workshops, and so on. One of their first output that can be accessed from outside Japan is here: an online publication series titled Resistance to Painting. The first issue centers around the work of Jackson Pollock, and contains astonishing analyses of his paintings which references the famous analysis by Pepe Karmel, but goes much much further and deeper, delving into questions like what is largeness? what does it mean to expand the space of painting? (If it is indeed true that the works of abstract expressionism aimed for and obtained the expansion of the visual field, the (literal) largeness of the canvas should, precisely therefore, not be a requisite), or what was the strategical mechanism of murals to cope with the fact that the entire work cannot be encompassed within a single view field, and what did Pollock learn from this? and so on.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:43:37 +0000
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