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Under
the patronage of His Excellency Professor Mohammed Sabarini,
President of Yarmouk University, the Embassy of Japan in Jordan
and the Japan Foundation, in cooperation with
Yarmouk
University
will hold an art exhibition entitled “Japanese
Prints 1950-1990” on
Monday 16 May 2005
at
11:00am
at the University’s Department of Student
Affairs.
The exhibition, which will run through 19 May, features a selection of
72 works of 46 distinguished Japanese artists selected by the Japan
Foundation, a semi-governmental organization for promoting cultural
exchange, aiming at introducing contemporary prints of Japan to the
Jordanians.
The prints demonstrate the changes in Japanese modern art from 1950s,
when
Japan
was just beginning to recover from the damage of
the Second World War, to the heavy influence of popular culture of the
60s and 70s and concluding with a critical reappraisal of printmaking
during the 80s in many ways, reflecting the experience of the
individual artist.
“Japanese Prints
1950-1990” beautifully illustrates
the more traditional print applications of woodblock cuttings,
lithography, and etchings.
Japan
has had a long aesthetic tradition with woodblock
prints and printmakers have embraced print media and techniques to
produce prints of subtle gradations of light and shade, vibrant color
and dynamic innovation.
His Excellency Mr.
Koichi Obata, Ambassador of Japan to Jordan, said “it is of an
importance to attach a great deal of value to cultural activities in
the Jordanian provinces and to introduce to the Jordanians the
different aspects of Japan that they haven’t often been exposed to
namely social art and culture in order to deepen mutual understanding
between Japan and Jordan”.
This event is the first Japanese exhibition to be held in the
governorate of Irbid. The
Yarmouk
University
has successfully organized two Japanese music
concerts in its campus during the last six months in addition to
receiving six Japanese artists dispatched by the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in its Faculty of Fine
Arts to share their artistic skills with the faculty and its students.
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