Exhibition
Sketches from the Poem Road (after Matsuo Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
20 Jun 2016 – 15 Jul 2016
The Glass Tank
Oxford, United Kingdom
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© Isao Miura
Talk
After Basho: Sketches from the Poem Road
21 Jun 2016
Event times
6pm
Cost of entry
Free, booking essential at: www.dajf.org.uk/events/booking-form
Address
- 13/14 Cornwall Terrace
- London
- NW1 4QP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 2, 13, 18, 27, 30, 74, 82, 113, 139, 189 and 274
- Tube: Baker St.
Event map
In this illustrated talk, the artist Isao Miura will discuss Sketches from the Poem Road, the upcoming exhibition at Oxford Brookes University which explores Miura’s deepest feelings about the landscapes of north Japan using paper, tatami, calligraphy, oil and ink drawings, and bronze
About
First shown at the Poetry Society in London, the exhibition is the result of a creative collaboration between Isao Miura and poet Chris Beckett. In it, the poet and artist undertake an interpretative journey in the footsteps of Matsuo Bashō and his 1689 trip which resulted in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Joining them on this leg of the journey is Nathalie Aubert, who will speak about her work on the Surrealist Belgian poet and painter, Christian Dotremont. Just as Miura fashions works of art based upon Bashō’s poetry and prose, so Dotremont creates at the interface of text and image in his ‘logogrammes’, which are intended to be simultaneously visual and verbal expressions.
