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Shoki the Demon Queller and Toad (1787) by Nagasawa Rosetsu, pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper. Private collection, Japan
Five Hundred Arhats (1798) by Nagasawa Rosetsu, hanging scroll, ink and light coloor on paper, 3.1 x 3.1 cm. Private collection, Japan
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figures, and whimsical animals. With his unconventional compositions and powerful brushwork Rosetsu always offers a fresh take on traditional subject matter. Te works were chosen in consultation with the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Government of Japan (Bunkacho) to expressly reveal the breadth of his subject matter, his relationship to Zen Buddhism, contacts with patrons outside Kyoto, and
his choice of portraying
extraordinarily bold images. On show are a selection of 60 of his most important paintings, beginning with the earliest works in the realist style of his teacher Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795), and ending with the haunting and occasionally bizarre final masterpieces of his career. Screen paintings, scrolls, and albums depicting Zen eccentrics,
beauties, landscapes, and as well as animals and birds take visitors on a journey through Rosetsu’s own travels and into his fantastic imagination that produced works that are compellingly realistic and sometimes surprisingly abstract. Te Rietberg exhibition looks at
originally been seen, gives outside their home an
unprecedented opportunity to view and examine the paintings in a single venue
in
Kushimoto and it is the first such installation of architecturally specific paintings of this type in an exhibition outside Japan. Approximately one-third of
the
works are registered as Important Cultural Properties or Important Art Objects.
Complementing these
masterpieces from Japan are paintings from other museums, temples, and private collections in Japan, Europe, and the United States that help trace the phases of Rosetsu’s life as he pursued his livelihood in Kyoto and the surrounding provinces. Te exhibition closes with a
children at play,
dramatic display of abstract landscapes, ghosts,
and perhaps his most these many mysteries created by
Rosetsu during his enigmatic career – and his untimely death in Osaka under suspicious circumstances. Te highlight of the exhibition is the collection of 48 screens and hanging scrolls from Muryo-ji temple in Kushimoto. Tey are displayed using a floorplan that recreates the original layout of the ancient Zen temple in the southern part of Japan’s main island that holds the largest and most important collection of Rosetsu’s paintings, which were mainly created in 1786. Te installation of these works, presented as they would have
astonishing work of all – a depiction of 500 Disciples of the Buddha on a surface of only one square inch. An astonishing painting for an astonishing life. • From 6 September to 4 November, Rietberg Museum, Zurich,
rietberg.ch. For information on guided tours and events, visit the museum’s website • A catalogue in German and English presents the most recent scholarship on the artist, a new standard work on Nagasawa Rosetsu in Western languages • Te exhibition is jointly curated by Dr Khanh Trinh, Curator of Japanese art, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, and Dr Matthew McKelway, Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History; director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art, Columbia University,New York • Kushimoto Okyo Rosetsu Art Museum, is in the grounds of Muryo-ji temple, southern Wakayama,
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