EXHIBITION

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GALLERY SAOH & TOMOS  (1F & BF )
GUY JASPAR Exhibition

2000.06.20 (Tues) – 06.30 (Fri) (Closed Sundays)

11.00 – 19.00 (Until 17.00 on last day)
20 works in oil, rubbed with cloth

Jaspar, it seems, was once a poet. His early paintings, indeed, were regularly inhabited with words and phrases. However, over the years, Jaspar’s words gradually became deformed; they metamorphosed into irregular, crooked lines and shapes. In the current works these jagged lines, which bear only a slight, and yet somehow disconcerting resemblance to the words in which they have their origin, are positioned roughly in the center of Jaspar’s frame. In many of the works they traverse a divide between light and dark sections, as though hovering over a horizon.


Work No.  00-1
  Dimensions:  21x29.5cm
  Price: 65 000 yen (frame 7 000 yen)
  Oil on paper

 
Work No.     00-15
Dimensions:  21x29.5cm
Price: 65 000 yen 
(frame 7 000 yen)
Oil on paper

While Jaspar may have changed his focus from poetry to painting, his task has not altered. Words remain his primary interest. The move to painting prompted an investigation of the painted form of words, an investigation that eventually ended in their distortion and morphological destruction. However, this destruction of form has allowed for new possibilities in the meaning of his ‘words’. The ‘meanings’ of Jaspar’s formless ‘words’ are now provided by the relationships in which they stand with the rest of his painting – the sections of light, sections of dark and so forth. Jaspar has redefined the concept of the ‘word’: one now waits to see how he can use it in his ‘poetry’.
1943 Born, Liege, Belgium


Work No.  00-18
Dimensions: 21x29.5cm
Price: 65 000 yen
(frame 7 000 yen)
oil on paper

1965 Resides in Brussels. Teaches himself  painting; writes poetry.
1974 Influenced by Jules Biché ; travels to Switzerland frequently.
Encounters Eastern culture and art through reading Daisetsu Suzuki and about Taoism.
1993, 95 Visits Japan twice. Numerous exhibitions since then.
Present: Works in Switzerland and Belgium.

cf. Gallery Artist.

 

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