RINKO-KAKU [Tea Room] Project 2021

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In 2021, two events are organised in Japan as part of the long-term cooperation between Concept Space (JP) and Parallel Art Foundation (HU): a site-specific exhibition in the historical Rinko-Kaku Tea House in Maebashi City, Gunma and a group show at AIS Gallery in Shibukawa City, Gunma.

The two organisations started to work together in 2019, when the exhibition Fine Matters and the 51st Győr Artist Residency Program took place at Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History in Győr, Hungary. These were followed by the first Rinko-Kaku [Tea Room] Project in 2020.

This November, Rinko-Kaku Tea House challenges again invited artists to get in dialogue with a space full of symbols, references and history, in a 130-year-old building complex, built by Motohiko Katori (1829-1912), the first governor of Gunma.

Exhibited artworks are dealing with the question of opposite senses, the relation of the whole and segment, the transition and transformation of materials, as well as the symbiosis of the geometric and organic forms. The minimalist and delicate approach, the usage of few materials and colours and the respect of the sacred space characterise the exhibition. The the soft and hard, flat and plastic monochrome objects of Viktória Körösi, the yes-no, right-wrong shaped canvas sculpture of Árpád Forgó, the annihilation-creation ash works of Yuka Miyazaki, the floating paper installation of Linda Carrara, the fragile construction of Shuhei Fukuda, the video work of Yuki Shiraishi, all unite with the ceremonial rooms of Rinko-Kaku. The artworks and installations created for this special occasion are to be discovered from different angles, so they motivate the viewer to move, as well as to find the right spot to contemplate.

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