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2010 is going to be an exciting year for Gallery 71.gallery71

Full programme of exhibitions will be available in late February.

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Gallery 71

ecoHaven Basement

71 Murray Street Hobart

Tel: 03 6234 6454

ecoHaven Cafe Open for breakfast, lunch and early dinner

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Collection of porcelain bottles by Sallee Warner

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Wabi sabi by India Flint

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Words spoken at the opening of ‘wabi-sabi – from rags to rust, the art of imperfection’ July 26, 2009: India_Flint

The older I become and the less time it seems likely I shall have on this beautiful earth the more I realise the importance of taking more time to be slow about the things I do.

And to engage with the whirled.

To take time to appreciate that string of pearls that is “the moments of now” that scatter like raindrops on a river as we wander our life journey

Collections of  “moments of now” make up the works we see here today. We call them artworks but they are only the tips of the metaphorical iceberg that is the

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The thought, hand, making and shaping that was involved in the realisation of the pieces we see

Those “moments of now” cannot be pinned down like beetles in a museum.they slip elusively away shimmering and dancing; swooping like dragonflies on the pond of memory

For me the concept of wabi-sabi is as undefinable.

My wise friend the potter Petrus Spronk says that the spirit of wabi comes about as a result of the work being made with great care and attention

And that the spirit of sabi comes about as a result of equally great care and attention from the user

And that in this way the work becomes complete.

Leonard Koren writes that wabi sabi is

…a beauty of things humble….

Ask a Japanese person to define it and the response often implies that the need to ask belies the possibility of understanding.

For me it is the difference between a philosophy that strives to say something with a work

And

One in which materials from nature are worked with care and respect to find a voice that gives the object meaning

In a similar spirit, as a traveller I find the most satisfying journeys have been those in which I have taken the time to listen to land and place

Taken time for life to find me rather than seeking out experience or nailing myself to a timetable

It is a frugal approach that finds joy in small detail.

A wabi-sabi of wanderings, taking gentle walks

Stopping to listen and being open to the magic that is all around

The works that are being displayed in this place show that others too have found this magic

The makers have been attentive and have listened to the whirled

They have allowed their materials to find a voice through their hands and hearts.

I have pleasure in welcoming you to enjoy the work and invite you to give it the care and attention the makers have brought to it

Thank you

India Flint


 

Gallery 71 Christmas Exhibition

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In November and December, Gallery 71 will exhibit an eclectic mix of works by Tasmanian and interstate artists. This is the place to get that special and unique Christmas gift!

Opening to be announced.

 

Tasmanian Ceramic Association - Annual Show

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In October, Gallery 71 will feature the Annual Ceramic Exhibition of the Tasmanian Ceramic Association.

Opening night to be announced.

 

Wabi-sabi: from rags to rust - the art of imperfection

Works of art by the friends of The Temenos Studios

Suzi Barton-Johnson,    Carolyn Canty,  Chantale Delrue,   Désirée Fitzgibbon,    India Flint , Cate Foley Burke, Joan Goldsworthy,   Vanda Jackson,   Ian Jeanneret,    Penny Jerrim,    Ellen Kochansky,   Lyn Reeves,    Marlene Schmidt,    Marianne Stafford,   Sabrina Tyler-Zilm,    Margaret Vandenberg,  Barbara Whitehouse,   Chris Wilson

India Flint - Landskin, detail.  "Landskin" is a combination of soft pre-felts, salvaged woven textiles, stitch, sliver and raw fleece to form intensely textured and coloured felt objects. The‘landskins' can be used as wraps for the body or as pieces to hang on walls.

"Wabi-sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things".

Andrew Juniper

Continues until 1st September
 

Wabi Sabi

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India_Flint-Landskin2Wabi stems from the root wa, which refers to harmony, peace, tranquillity, and balance. Generally speaking, wabi had the original meaning of sad, desolate, and lonely, but poetically it has come to mean simple, unmaterialistic, humble by choice, and in tune with nature. Someone who is perfectly herself and never craves to be anything else would be described as wabi. Sixteenth-century tea master Jo-o described a wabi tea man as someone who feels no dissatisfaction even though he owns no Chinese utensils with which to conduct tea. A common phrase used in conjunction with wabi is "the joy of the little monk in his wind-torn robe." A wabi person epitomizes Zen, which is to say, he or she is content with very little; free from greed, indolence, and anger; and understands the wisdom of rocks and grasshoppers.

Until the fourteenth century, when Japanese society came to admire monks and hermits for their spiritual asceticism, wabi was a pejorative term used to describe cheerless, miserable outcasts. Even today, undertones of desolation and abandonment cling to the word, sometimes used to describe the helpless feeling you have when waiting for your lover. It also carries a hint of dissatisfaction in its underhanded criticism of gaud and ostentation-the defining mark of the ruling classes when wabisuki (a taste for all things wabi) exploded in the sixteenth century. In a country ruled by warlords who were expected to be conspicuous consumers, wabi became known as "the aesthetic of the people"-the lifestyle of the everday samurai, who had little in the way of material comforts.

Sabi by itself means "the bloom of time." It connotes natural progression-tarnish, hoariness, rust-the extinguished gloss of that which once sparkled. It's the understanding that beauty is fleeting. The word's meaning has changed over time, from its ancient definition, "to be desolate," to the more neutral "to grow old." By the thirteenth century, sabi's meaning had evolved into taking pleasure in things that were old and faded. A proverb emerged: "Time is kind to things, but unkind to man."

Sabi things carry the burden of their years with dignity and grace: the chilly mottled surface of an oxidized silver bowl, the yielding gray of weathered wood, the elegant withering of a bereft autumn bough. An old car left in a field to rust, as it transforms from an eyesore into a part of the landscape, could be considered America's contribution to the evolution of sabi. An abandoned barn, as it collapses in on itself, holds this mystique.

There's an aching poetry in things that carry this patina, and it transcends the Japanese. We Americans are ineffably drawn to old European towns with their crooked cobblestone streets and chipping plaster, to places battle scarred with history much deeper than our own. We seek sabi in antiques and even try to manufacture it in distressed furnishings. True sabi cannot be acquired, however. It is a gift of time.

So now we have wabi, which is humble and simple, and sabi, which is rusty and weathered. And we've thrown these terms together into a phrase that rolls off the tongue like Ping-Pong.

From: "The wabi-sabi house,the Japanese art of imperfect beauty"  by Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Wabi Sabi: from rags to rust - the art of imperfection

 

thai-art

Top row images:
Secret of face
by AP Korn

Bottom row images from left:
Untitled by Narate Kathong
Enjoy yellow by Kongsak Poonpholwattanporn
Chang Dara (moviestar) by Jarunee Suwanahong

You are invited to attend an exhibition of modern Thai art

gallery71 is introducing six young artist from Bangkok and Hua hin.
See examples of a growing and revitalized art scene from Thailand.

Jarunee Suwanahong

Narate Kathong

Jirasak Plabootong

Tanarug Sangpradub

Kongsak Poonpholwattanaporn

AP Korn

View images from the exhibition


 
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