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Artist | Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture 2014, Toshio Shibata, courtesy LAURENCE MILLER |
Location | LAURENCE MILLER, New York |
Toshio Shibata’s connections with Japanese artistic tradition are intriguing. He purposefully went against the grain of the traditional Japanese concept of landscape, yet his viewpoint is unmistakably Japanese. His work has a strong connection with the way classical Japanese architecture integrates itself within its environment. In this sense, Shibata’s mediations on the contemporary landscape have a surprising connection to classical...