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Capturing the glow the night engenders, as if by magic<\/span> certain works of surpassing beauty reveal the colours of the shadows. The collections in the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art are packed with these rare marvels, attracting visitors from throughout the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The display cases containing examples of Chinese stoneware from the Song dynasty (960-1279) provide wonderful examples, including tenmoku<\/i> bowls whose colourful glazes are said to resemble \u201ca hare\u2019s fur\u201d or \u201cdrops of oil\u201d. More recent, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century monochrome porcelains are subtly shaded, creating their famous \u201ctea powder\u201d and \u201cblack mirror\u201d effects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The subdued lighting in the Japanese rooms is designed to induce the appropriate mood to appreciate the large number of pieces collected by Alfred Baur<\/span> that exemplify the crepuscular aesthetic tradition described in Tanizaki Junichiro\u2019s masterly In Praise of Shadows.<\/i> Also highlighted is an array of shiny black lacquer objects (scabbards, tea boxes, incense containers, desktop objects), often engraved, highly polished, decorated with gold dust or thread, or embellished by metal, mother-of-pearl or enamel features.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Taking its cue from this spectacle of chiaroscuro effects, the Baur Foundation is holding an exhibition of some of the masterpieces by the master of \u201cbright black\u201d painting, Pierre Soulages. His art echoes \u201cthe weight of silence\u201d, in the words of Tanizaki,<\/span> and coincidentally, but at the same time quite evidently, it matches the \u201ccolours of the darkness\u201d so dear to Japan\u2019s visual culture. His works have sometimes been likened to calligraphy or lacquerwork and might even be said to share some of the features of \u201creverse painting\u201d ( urazaishiki<\/i>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The exhibition aims to offer a different perspective on the Land of the Rising Sun, laying the stress on the clean lines of its bamboo forests and the sounds and light filtering through them. \u201cAbstract sculpture\u201d, created according to Pierre Soulages by \u201cbranches writing in the air\u201d, interacts with the long canes and joints of the bamboo, traced in chiaroscuro by an exceptional artist, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV. He represents the fourth generation of a family of artists employing ancestral traditions and techniques to make art from plants, to which he adds his own fresh, radiant, sculptural approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After graduating from \u00c9<\/span>cole du Louvre, Laure Schwartz-Arenales<\/strong> went on to obtain her PhD at Sorbonne Paris IV, before beginning her career at Mus\u00e9<\/span>e Guimet<\/span> and at \u00c9cole du Louvre<\/span>, in Paris, lecturing in the Art of the Far East. Her research into ancient Japanese painting, which she started in Japan in 1998 (University of Tohoku\u2013Kyoto National Museum), received an award from the Kajima Foundation for the Arts, in 2007. She held a professorship at the University of Ochanomizu and later at Sophia University (Tokyo) and has been the director of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art<\/span> since 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fabienne Fravalo<\/strong> is at present the curator of the decorative arts collection at Fondation Gandur pour l\u2019Art (Geneva). She obtained her PhD in the History of Art from the University of Neuch\u00e2tel and Clermont-Ferrand. She spent a period as a researcher at INHA in Paris and is the author of a monograph on the potter \u00c9<\/span>mile Decoeur, published with Galerie Michel Giraud, in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Together with his daughter Zo\u00e9<\/span> Niang, Philippe Boudin<\/strong> runs Galerie Mingei, which stands right in the heart of Saint Germain-des-Pr\u00e8<\/span>s. The gallery specialises in the art of bamboo basket making in Japan and has become the leading authority in the field in Europe, organising exhibitions, collaborating regularly with museums and providing expert advice to private collectors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maezaki Shinya<\/strong> is a Japanese interior decorator and designer. After obtaining his PhD at the University of London\u2019s School of Oriental and African Studies\u2013SOAS, in 2009, he held the post of Associate Professor at Kyoto Women\u2019s University. He has published numerous works on 20th<\/sup>– and 21st<\/sup>-century Japanese interior decoration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tanabe Chikuunsai IV<\/strong> is the latest in a dynasty of bamboo masters from Kansai. His go<\/i> (art name) Chikuunsai means \u201cbamboo cloud\u201d. He is internationally renowned for his skill in this form art, which is as yet little known in Europe. Even so, his works are to be found in all the world\u2019s leading museums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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