展覧会アーカイブス　1987

掲載紙

• ARTS by Janet Koplos
  No interpretations are necessary for the dazzling fiber works by 11 artists on display at Gallery Gallery. They concentrate on the formal qualities of shape, color, texture and material, and what you see is what it is. Several are delights of color: Maki Nakagawa makes vivid mobiles of yarn-wrapped dowel; Jun Mitsuhashi constructs tiny black shelves to hold bits of bright fabric and thread, with some obscure corner of each shelf picking up the dominant color; Mitsuo Toyazaki shows a “cabbage patch” of not just green thumbs but green fingers (bundles of dyed cotton work gloves); Chika Ohgi shows three “formalist paintings” of pale pieced fabrics as light and delicate as spring flowers in a mist. But color is not always important. Hideho Tanaka’s five reliefs are interesting permutations on his favored theme of hemp and paper pulp burned away to reveal a base of tangled wire. Hideo Mori shows a hanging of undyed muslin with barely perceptible collage and Naomi Kobayashi creates diminutive baskets of paper and thread which she mounts within pale frames by means of a single rea thread ghat passes through the basket(s) to the edges of the frame and up to a tiny nail, adding a triangle to the square of the baskets and the rectangle of the frame. These artists have various interests, but there’s not a single failure in this pleasing show.

  ASAHI EVENING NEWS, February 6, 1987