If one day you would want to get away from your fancy, feverish, frantic urban life, where would you go? Where would you hope to find a remote, quiet, and contemplative place? - Maybe in the mountains. For centuries, the mountains offered all the blessings a civilized human being was longing for. But Deiryu experienced something completely different. On this tea bowl he draws a different picture. He has written a so called “One Word Barrier” (Jap.: ichiji kan), a form of a Zen calligraphy that features one large character, either by itself or with and inscription in smaller size. The main character is mountain. “The mountains shout hip hip hooray” (yama wa yobu banzei no koe).
BachmannEckenstein | JapaneseArt
When tea is poured into a teacup flowers bloom inside the cup. Move the teacup or pick it up and all of the flower petals scatter and spread outside of the cup. As long as there is tea in the cup, flowers will continue to appear and bloom. The artwork appears for the first time when there is tea in the cup; when the tea is gone, the artwork disappears. The work is rendered in real time by a computer program; it is not a prerecorded video. The artwork is influenced by the viewers, as their behavior causes continual change and transformation. This moment of the artwork can never be seen again and a previous state will never be repeated. (Source: TeamLab)
Von Marion Poschmann
Töpfern – damit verbindet man hierzulande Volkshochschulkurse für gelangweilte Hausfrauen, Reha-Angebote, Beschäftigungstherapie. Damit traktiert man Schüler, wenn ein Erlebnis kreativen Schaffens forciert werden soll, das keinerlei Voraussetzungen erfordert, denn Aschenbecher gelingen eigentlich immer.
So voreingenommen betrat ich im vergangenen Jahr einen Museumssaal in Tokio, und ohne dass ich wusste, wie mir geschah, zog mich eine unsichtbare Kraft quer durch den Raum, bis ich mich vor einer Vitrine wiederfand, die eine unscheinbare schwarzbraune Schale beherbergte, von Hand geformt, nicht wirklich symmetrisch, klobig und roh... Quelle: DIE ZEIT
