Vietnamese lotus

Vietnamese lotus pond in Japanese painter’s heart

It is not about images of real lotuses: The “Lotus Pond” exhibition in Hcm city by Kato Shojiro is an amazing game of colours, blocks and concepts of life.

In 1994 and 1995, Kato Shojiro displayed his paintings at the Hcm city Art Museum. For his third exhibition in Vietnam Kato Shojiro said he is interested in the changes of HCM City.

Asked why he chose “Lotus Pond” as the topic of 22 paintings at the exhibition, the Japanese painter said: “In Japan, once I visited the gallery of artist Le Thanh Thu, a famous Vietnamese painter, and I saw a Lotus painting. I cried because of that painting’s strange obsession. That’s the way the feeling for the lotus came to me.”

Kato Shojiro said his paintings don’t depict real lotuses but the idea of the lotus. “I hope each visitor will have a different experience and feeling depending on their imagination,” he said.

If one didn’t know the name of this exhibition, he might think Kato Shojiro’s paintings belong to the abstract school. Paintings are copies of each other but they are done in different ranges of colours.

These paintings are mainly created with Chinese ink (black), shell powder (black), mineral powder (green, blue), vermilion, mercury compounds (red), gold leaf and silver leaf. As the colours come from nature, the number of colours is not great but the paintings have interesting lay-outs.

“In Japanese art, paper and colour are not materials but also part of the painting. They have their own meanings,” the painter said.

The exhibition will run till August 9 at Tu Do Gallery, 53 Ho Tung Mau, District 1, HCM City.

Kato Shojiro was born in Tokyo in 1954. He is a famous painter of the Japanese painting style. He earned a master’s degree in Japanese-style painting, Graduate School of Tama Art University, Tokyo in 1978.

He has won many prizes, including the New Artist Prize in the 25th Asian Modern Art Exhibition in 1989, the Artist Friendship Association of Asia Prize in the 26th Asian Modern Art Exhibition in 1990, the Grand Prize in the 30th Asian Modern Art Exhibition in 1994, the Yasuda Art Foundation Prize in the 32nd Asian Modern Art Exhibition in 1996, and the Grand Prize in the 23rd Japan-Seiko Art Exhibition in 2001, among others.

The painter has participated in nearly 60 solo and joint exhibitions in Japan, China, Vietnam, USA, South Korea and Thailand.

(Source: VNE)

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Vietnamese lotus pond in Japanese painter’s heart

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