13日13時から14時まで工藤美術館でタルシトさんと生け花のせいかさんらによるパフォーマンスを行います。
Artists Connecting through Art
Italian artist Tarsito (73), who is based in Bari, a city in southern Italy, has come to Japan to promote exchanges through art with artists in the prefecture. On March 30, he collaborated with Zenka and others at the Sunanta Factory in Komuro, Fujikawa Town. Tarsito has visited Bangladesh, Cambodia, Morocco, and other countries and built friendships with local artists. He said, "I want to connect the world with art. Although we may have different skin colors and appearances, when we talk and draw together, we realize that we share the same heart. The world is one big family." <Murakami Yukiko>
Tarsito has been visiting various parts of the world since 2000. He is currently working on a project in which artists from each country add pictures and words to paintings that Tarsito and his team have drawn in Italy and brought back to Japan. In the countries he has visited, he has experienced the traditional culture of each country, such as embroidery and calligraphy.
The reason he decided to visit Yamanashi in Japan was because he was connected with Japanese painter Ito Masatsugu, who has an atelier in Otsuki City, through a Mongolian artist.
In addition to Ito, ink and color painter Koto Yoji, woodworker Wakabayashi Katsutomo, and Aoya are all based in the prefecture.
The project was produced in collaboration with Takei Aika and others from Suzuri. The completed work will be exhibited in various countries and Italy, and will be made public.
Suzuri
Tarcito also had the opportunity to visit Amahashi Honpo's Amemiya Yataro and contemporary artist Ishida Yasumichi, and to view their works.
"I didn't know much about Japan, but the people of Yamanashi are very kindhearted. It's like we have more brothers and sisters," said Tarcito, delighted.
Ito said, "I can only sympathize with the desire to create connections between people through art and connect the world. I'm happy to be able to participate."
On the 13th, Tarcito will perform with a flower arrangement artist at the Kudo Yojitsu Museum in Obi, Suo-cho, Hokuto City. It will be open to the public from around 1pm (admission fee required).
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