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Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi

Asia Society Texas Center
1370 Southmore Boulevard,
Houston, Texas 77004, USA
Oct 25, 2014 To Feb 15, 2015


Detail: This exhibition focuses on recent sculptures by Bidou Yamaguchi that apply the forms, techniques, transformative spirit, and mysterious elegance of Noh masks to iconic female portraits from the European art historical canon, and to Kabuki actor prints of Sharaku, Japan’s enigmatic 18th century portrait master. These works radically extend Noh’s transformation of souls across time and space, projecting them into new cultural and physical dimensions. Traditions Transfigured includes educational and interactive components that show a set of masks displaying the carving process, a video explaining mask-making, and a secured mask that visitors can handle, try on, and photograph themselves wearing.

Phone No.: 713.496.9901
Contact Email: [email protected]
Site URL: http://www.asiasociety.org/texas/bidou

Bidou Yamaguchi, Zo-onna (Middle-Age Woman)
Bidou Yamaguchi, Zo-onna (Middle-Age Woman)
1998
Japanese cypress, seashell, natural pigment, Japanese lacquer
Courtesy of Kelly Sutherlin McLeod and Steve McLeod Collection.

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