{"id":613,"date":"2020-02-13T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/?p=613"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T07:19:23","slug":"under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/under-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Under Construction<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Asako Tokitsu<br \/>\n<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-02-13-um-16.15.18-300x79.png\" alt=\"Bildschirmfoto 2020-02-13 um 16.15.18\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-02-13-um-16.15.18-300x79.png 300w, http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bildschirmfoto-2020-02-13-um-16.15.18.png 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-623 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Picture-1-133x300.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Picture-1-133x300.png 133w, http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Picture-1-454x1024.png 454w, http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Picture-1.png 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Work in Progress<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/428001139?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Artist Talk<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/421493972?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Er\u00f6ffnungsrede<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/399586466?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Ausstellungsrundgang<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/399584384?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Ausstellung<br \/>\n<\/em>21.03.2020\u201405.06.2020<br \/>\nKunstraum Claudia Delank | Bleibtreustr. 15\u201316, 10623 Berlin<br \/>\nNach Vereinbarung<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Er\u00f6ffnung<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">21. M\u00e4rz 2020 | 18 Uhr<br \/>\nKunstraum Claudia Delank | Bleibtreustr. 15\u201316, 10623 Berlin<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Wegen der Ausbreitung des Coronavirus findet die Er\u00f6ffnung der Ausstellung am 21. M\u00e4rz 2020 nicht statt.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em> As a cautionary measure due to the spreading of the coronavirus the opening on 21 March 2020 does not take place.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Artist Talk mit Asako Tokitsu und Dr. Alexander Hofmann (Museum f\u00fcr Asiatische Kunst, Berlin)<\/em><br \/>\n14. Mai 2020 | 18 Uhr<br \/>\nKunstraum Claudia Delank | Bleibtreustr. 15\u201316, 10623 Berlin<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Due of the Corona crisis, we are pleased to announce that the exhibition Under Construction, Asako Tokitsu \u2013 Installation has been extended until 5th June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Asako Tokitsu was born in T\u00f4ky\u00f4 and has been living and working in Berlin since 2004.<br \/>\nHer artistic practice focuses on site-specific installations.<br \/>\nFrom 1989 to 1991, she studied Art and Art Theory at Tama Art University in T\u00f4ky\u00f4 and held various artist-in-residencies in Paris in the 1990ies. She exhibited internationally in renowned galleries, for instance in 2015 at the Foundation Hermes in T\u00f4ky\u00f4. Her works are in public and private collections, mainly in Japan and Europe, among them the Daimler Collection Holding T\u00f4ky\u00f4.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Asako Tokitsu realized an installation-project in a Japanese teahouse on the site of T\u00f4ky\u00f4 National Museum, the famous \u00d4kyokan, a traditional building in the shoin sukuri style with fusuma paintings by the famous Edo-time painter Maruyama \u00d4kyo (1733\u20131795) who lived and worked in Japan in the 18th century. In my Art Space she also worked directly on the wall and the windows, using oil crayon and charcoal. If one hadn\u2019t any information whatsoever and saw Asako Tokitsu\u2019s work in my Art Space for the first time, one would not immediately identify it as a work by a Japanese artist. The artist sees her work at first in an international minimalist context and only more recently as a specifically Japanese work (on this aspect see the artist talk with Alexander Hofmann and Claudia Delank).<\/p>\n<p>Asako Tokitsu\u2019s site-specific artistic practice is based on the line. The dynamic line and space are the two constituting elements of her work. Thus she uses space as a canvas for her line installations. The Japanese line with a varying ductus was a revelation for Western artist at the end of the 19th century. Henry van de Velde (1863\u20131957) spoke of the \u201cdiscovery of the forces of the line and the dynamic expression\u201d. This tension between the modulating brushstrokes and the empty space was new to Western painters. Lines on their own are characterized by minimal form on one hand and utmost expression on the other. The surrounding empty space is as important as the painted one in the modulating line and the empty space. The beauty of the space left empty is called yohaku in Japanese (lit. \u201cthe beauty of the blank\u201d). Another well-known example of Japanese art where the empty space plays an important role is the dry landscape garden (karesansui garden) with its composition of stones and empty space. The karesansui garden, is\u2014based on an elementary structural form or formula\u2014a composite of intervals set in rhythm with space that is, a composition of spaces (Japanese ma). As a Zen garden of monochrome Zen Painting, suiboku-ga or sumie, closely related, both are considered \u201cto lift\u201d, to be an aid of meditation. In Zen painting, like the stones or stone groups in raked sand or gravel, the brush strokes emerge as markings from the emptiness of the white surface (k\u00fbhaku), the \u201cunmarked state\u201d. In this sense, the karesansui garden and ink painting are structurally identical.<\/p>\n<p>Both the dynamic line and the empty space inbetween are at the very center of Asako Tokitsu\u2019s work. These elements also played a strong role in the Western reception of Japanese art in the late 19th and early 20th century, the so-called \u201cJaponisme\u201d. As for Asako Tokitsu, the line within the architectural space is the vital element in her art executed not in the traditional media of ink on paper in a calligraphic mode with modulating ductus, but directly on the wall with charcoal and oil crayon. The artist combines a Western technique with specific elements of Japanese art. Thus her work can be seen, to some extent, as a form of Reversed Japonisme.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Delank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Construction Asako Tokitsu &nbsp; &nbsp; Work in Progress Artist Talk Er\u00f6ffnungsrede Ausstellungsrundgang Ausstellung 21.03.2020\u201405.06.2020 Kunstraum Claudia Delank | Bleibtreustr. 15\u201316, 10623 Berlin Nach Vereinbarung Er\u00f6ffnung 21. M\u00e4rz 2020 | 18 Uhr Kunstraum Claudia Delank | Bleibtreustr. 15\u201316, 10623 Berlin Wegen der Ausbreitung des Coronavirus findet die Er\u00f6ffnung der Ausstellung am 21. M\u00e4rz 2020 nicht&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/under-construction\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Under Construction<\/span> weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.delank.com\/delank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}