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Jörg Schmeisser solo exhibition "Blue Mud Bay"

20 May 2011 - 12 June 2011

The international artist Jörg Schmeisser, a contemporary painter at the peak of his career, brings a new exhibition to the Galerie Miyawaki in Kyoto in May-June 2011.

His subject is his experiences and memories from his journey to Australia’s indigenous communities around Blue Mud Bay and Yirrkala in eastern Arnhem land of the Northern Territory. The bay was named from Captain Matthew Flinders’ observations of an opaque blue mud in the bay where they raised anchor in the years of 1802–3. The artist made a journey to Yirrkala with a group of other Australian artists, and was inspired by the Aboriginal culture which dates back 40,000 years. The 20 collected works on paper are derived from finely detailed sketches and etchings from direct observations and collage-like compositions of seen and imagined forms. Evoking the quintessence of the environment, the core of the work embellishes one image around which float random thoughts and personal memories.

Having gradually introduced his work to Japan through a series of exhibitions, the artist also includes some 20 woodblock prints from the early 1970s which capture his first impressions of Japan. An artist reception for Jörg Schmeisser will be held at 6pm on Sunday 22nd May.

Jörg Schmeisser

Born in Pomerania in 1942, Jörg studied at the Hamburg Fine Art Academy. He began his extensive travels in 1965 with a trip through the Middle East. Over the next decades he developed a strong interest in archaeology while working on a number of digs. The faithfulness to form and detail that he developed while drawing for archaeological publications is still a hallmark of many of his recent works. He moved to Canberra, Australia in 1978 to head the Printmaking Workshop of the Australian National University, Canberra School of Art. He took his post-graduate work at the Fine Arts University of Kyoto, Japan where his work progressed dramatically. In 1997 he received a Princeton University Council of Humanities Fellowship where he held a major solo exhibition at The Williams Gallery. 

He has held more than 130 solo exhibitions world-wide and is represented in major private and public collections such as the Princeton University Graphic Arts Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.

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