Tuesday, September 13, 2016

"Miura Kageo: Retrospective" @ Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art

This is what was showing when I visited, so I went and took a look. It was without the benefit of any English description, so an interesting experience to be confronted by new art with no context at all! Miura's medium turns it to be dye on textile, with which he created some quite marvellous effects. I particularly liked the bold swatches from the 1960s, which reminded me of Robert Motherwell except colourful, and the whimsically detailed figurative landscapes that he had turned to by the 2000s.