Spirituality

Beneath the Blossom Tree: Reflecting on Influences from Japan

Agnes Husz

There is a Japanese word mederu, meaning "to look", “just looking".

When sitting in a Japanese garden simply looking, not seeing, you can feel the inner emptiness. The study of Far Eastern philosophies seems to be a means of attaining this inner calm. 

A brief introduction to Maria Geszler Garzuly, Zsofia Karsai, Julia Nema and Agnes Husz’s exploration of the impact of traditional Japanese notions to their work, these are examples of Europeans being enveloped in what might be called the "New Orientalia".

Date: October 2, 2018, 16:05-16:20 (Tuesday)

Venue: Room 603, NO.161 , Sec, 1 , Zhongshan Rd, Banqiao District , New Taipei City 220

Image credit: Courtesy of artist




About Agnes Husz

Agnes Husz, a Hungarian born ceramic artist, is considered today as one of Japan's outstanding artists in the field of ceramics. In 1990, after receiving her master degree from the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest, she is artist in residence at several international workshops. It is in Holland in 1993 at the European Ceramics Work Center where she develops her first "spiral objects". Living in Japan since 1993, Husz has a specific resonance with the Japanese environment, culture and ways of thinking. Whirls, bandaged shapes, spirals hang on one another implying the motion of binding and unbinding, of drawing in and swinging out. A never ending circumvolution of living forces through nature into infinity...a philosophy of a cosmic Nature.

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