Sachgebiete

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12 Seiten; Illustr. (s/w); 1 Textblatt als Beilage; 20 cm; geheftet.

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Gutes Ex., Texte englisch und japanisch. - Vorwort Harue Murayama; Text auf Beiblatt: Hiroshi Ichikawa. - ... I first met Vera Szekely when I was preparing for the exhibition "Balls for Meditation" (Tokyo, autumn 1988, Keio Plaza & Gallery TOM) organized by Gallery TOM and the "Atelier des Enfants" of the "Contre Georges Pompidou". I had then the chance of visiting het atelier all surrounded by nature in the Parisian suburb. I saw her choose materials from every day life with accurate sensitiveness, converse with them and assimilate with them ; her creative attitude reminds me of a silkworm spinning a cocoon or a stork making its nest. There, she showed me a book made of cloth, "Massacre du Paraclet", edited in 1976. It gathered silkprints of black and red collage representing doves and targets along with a poetic text by herself. This beautiful book told of her own history, the history of her exite to Paris in 1947, fleeing from antidemocratic Hungary oppressed by Stalinism. But it also told of the tragedy of Hungarian people in a beautiful and pathetic requiem. We often hear Europeans qualify Japanese culture as "The culture of Touch". It is true that we long have been manipulating sticks to eat, envelopping bowls in the palms of our hands, warming our food with our hands. Japanese craftwork has also along "touch-tradition" which could never be thought of without close relationships between craftmen and consumers. This tradition even embraces fields that are often considered as having no relation to the touch. Japanese music for instance, developped under a tender carefulness to the sounds of insects, wind, rain or snow. ? (Harue Murayama)