KANJI CLASS

The cycle of three sculptures realized in the year 2010 as a grantee of Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT) on Hokkaido University of Education in Iwamizawa and Sapporo in Japan.

The inspiration for the sculptures are Chinese characters used in Japanese system of writing (Kanji). The series is a proposal of new, three-dimentional perception of traditional Shodo, art of painting of signs by brushes and ink. Sculptures are representation of three characters which were selected according to their form and meaning. Though they try to follow inflexible rules of writing Kanji, they constitute artistic interpretation of someone viewing this complex language from outside, more freely than those educated for years in the subject and can hardly imagine any changes in its rigorous principles of writing. Sculptures are made from oak (jap. Nara), typical wood on Hokkaido Island and grey granite stone.

The cycle was exhibited in Sapporo Clock Tower Gallery in March 2011. Currently it is displayed as part of permanent collection in Mikasa Modern Art Museum in Hokkaido, Japan.