2024-02-16 15:58:01
The La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona will host until Friday 29 March the “Acashodo” exhibition, a group exhibition of Japanese calligraphy. The exhibition offers a visual tour of some works by the founders of Acashodo, the Catalan Association of Japanese Calligraphy: Eva Ibáñez Cano with her meticulous calligraphic work on the heart sutra in Gyosho and Kaisho style; Christian T. Arjona with a series of oriental landscapes in Chinese ink and abstract charcoal drawings; Andi Dom Dom with experimental calligraphies using Sumi-e techniques; Gerardo D. Cristante with works of Shodo Art and calligraphic abstraction; Japanese calligraphy on ceramics by Lucinda Clay, and Carme Feliu Latorre with calligraphy of Japanese abstract concepts.
The opening ceremony took place yesterday and the Zen poetry book was presented Quietudeswith calligraphic illustrations by Christian Arjona and Gerardo Cristante.
The exhibition begins the collaboration between the Catalan Association of Japanese Calligraphy and the Municipal Art School of Girona to bring this art closer to Girona’s citizens, with the complicity of Carme Feliu, director of Nipponia Idiomes, a center dedicated to the dissemination of Japanese language and culture, and president of the Network of Former Japanese Government Scholars in Catalonia , Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.
The Catalan Association of Japanese Calligraphy Acashodo aims to promote and spread Japanese calligraphy, its history and its artists; promote relations and cultural exchange between Japan and Catalonia; create a bibliographic fund where material related to Japanese calligraphy can be consulted; promote the partner artists that make it up through an artist platform; and contribute to the spread of Japanese culture in Catalonia.
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