If ‘landscape’ is something that reflects both inside and outside of our heart (KOKORO)… If, at one place, we gather artwork, which is expressed freely in response to multiple places … What would it be like, this landscape that could be shared beyond different generations, cultures or races…
"Denkyu" (painting on resin, 2010) Nobuaki Onishi
Immanent Landscape is a project realized by eight emerging contemporary artists from Australia and Japan, moving across both countries and engaging with each other over a two year period. The participating artists, Ai Sasaki, Atsunobu Katagiri, Nobuaki Onishi, Hisaharu Motoda, Kiron Robinson, Hamish Carr, Jeremy Bakker and Utako Shindo, engage in a diverse range of disciplines including photography, drawing, printmaking, installation and ikebana. Their works commonly reflect and embody themes and concepts of environment, both external and internal. The group exhibition explores the idea of ‘landscape’ as a position where various point of views can intersect.
"Invisible island"(royal icing, 2010) and Ai Sasaki
The broader Immanent Landscape project consists of multiple projects including workshops, artist talks, residencies and research trips. Through these activities, Immanent Landscape aims to create active dialogues for not just the artists but also the broader art communities in both Japan and Australia.
Immanent Landscape proposes to be a place where we suggest and share a new ‘landscape’ that is longed for and embedded in our communal existence.
For further information: www.i-landscape.net
This exhibition has been supported by the Arts and Culture, and the Business and International departments of City of Melbourne and Arts Victora.
