albarrancabrera: Albarran Cabrera —– Instagram The Mouth of Krishna#240, 2
albarrancabrera: Albarran Cabrera —– Instagram The Mouth of Krishna#240, 2014 Toned Silver Gelatin PrintThe Japanese have developed a distinct sense of aesthetics to depict different kinds of beauty. During the Medieval Times and inspired by Buddhism a new set of aesthetic values are developed centered in “the lack of apparent external beauty”, discovering “another new beauty”, more elevated and sober, based on simplicity, nature, impermanence, poverty, imperfection, coldness.Wabi means “poverty.” Wabi is to be satisfied with a little hut, like the log cabin of Thoreau, to stay content with the contemplation of Nature. Sabi literally means “loneliness.” Sabi consists in rustic imperfection. In poetry Sabi stands for “austere and solitary beauty” suggesting the passing of time and the patina this passing produces in the worldly things destined to vanish. Wabi sabi represents rustic and desolate beauty that correlates with a dark, bleak beauty that can be easily overlooked; but that it can be found everywhere: such as a small worn-down hut hidden in the forest, the shy first green sprouts fighting their way out in the snow in a mountain village. Wabi sabi is linked with a discreet beauty in the colourless, the old, and the fragile. In short, the beauty of a cold, bleak, solitary, wintry landscape that is used as a symbol representing and suggesting the impermanence of men.These aesthetic-moral values help us to “open our eyes” to the new aesthetic sensibility of those who are able to gain peace and serenity against the lightness of being of all earthly things that are destined to vanish with time.We could say that new aesthetics places us on the way to an imperfect beauty that leads us directly to the infinite beauty.To those who only pray for the cherries to bloom,How I wish to show this springThat gleams from a patch of greenIn the midst of the snow-covered mountain-village!-Fujiware Yutaka 1158-1237We are happy to announce that we’ll be part of the group exhibition ’Wabi Sabi’ that will feature works of 14 artists on the aesthetic concept of wabi sabi, and that will start on Thursday 11 June and run until 30 August 2020 at Ibasho Gallery -- source link
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