Saturday, October 31 12pm to 6pm
Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary St, Ste 105, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Join us at Ouchi Gallery as we celebrate Shigeyuki Matsumoto’s inspiring extraordinary calligraphy work!
Shigeyuki Matsumoto was born in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan in 1961 and from a very young age was fond of drawing pictures and calligraphy. His single most passion was calligraphy, and even as a boy he remembers how the smell of the ink was very comforting. He quickly became hooked on calligraphy and became engrossed in trying to become the best in his field.
Self-taught in the traditional calligraphy skills, he uses the subject matter of “words” and makes creations through the use of shades and blurring of ink, along with blank spaces.
He believes that the most beautiful thing within Japanese art is the expression of blank spaces, airspaces and nothingness and that beauty is the spaces and nothingness within Japanese art.
He doesn’t work within the traditional Japanese calligraphy framework, but is searching for his own unique expressive style which combines his own spirit and subject matter in a literary style which he continues to develop.
He also likes Japanese paintings and he incorporates the techniques used in Japanese paintings into his calligraphy.
Free admission!
More information available at: http://www.ouchigallery.com/