Ayano Yamamoto – Balance of Emptiness

The exhibition represents a synthesis of the artistic research of Ayano Yamamoto (Kanagawa, 1979), in which Japanese sensibility engages with the Western pictorial tradition.

Ayano Yamamoto’s painterly practice takes the form of a profound exploration of the essential nature of things, in which the artist captures the simplicity of small, everyday fragments and transposes them into a poetic and timeless dimension. This process stems from a slow work of assimilating and metabolizing memory, through which glimpses of real life reemerge on the canvas in a subtle way, akin to fragments of visual haiku.

The focal point of this exhibition is the balance of emptiness, a key concept in Zen thought that should not be confused with nothingness, but rather understood as a field of forces and a dynamic measure between objects.

This sensibility translates into luminous glazes of oil or acrylic, finished with linseed oil to achieve a matte surface.

Opening: Friday, 24 April, 6:00–8:00 p.m.