The body and the mind

The Body and the Mind de Noriko Yanagisawa, é uma exposição que reflete a atenção dispensada pela Faculdade de Belas Artes aos artistas nipónicos que se tem tornado habito olhar na nossa programação e que teve como impulso inicial a associação da Universidade do Porto à celebração dos centenários das relações culturais entre os dois países sob os auspícios da Embaixada do Japão. Aqui visitamos uma artista que desde longa data manteve uma relação afetiva e sentimental com o nosso país, onde, por curiosidade, privou com Amália Rodrigues, e que, pela primeira vez expõe na nossa Cidade e na nossa Galeria dos Leões. A ela damos as boas vindas para que todos possamos partilhar o universo misterioso que nos propõe partilhar com ela. Diretor da FBAUP Francisco Laranjo “The body and the mind. The color and shape of each piece of art comes first as an instinctive image. Whether it is wings or the body, each shape becomes a medium and overlaps with the image that I want to create. It is something mental that can usually only be seen if one evolves further, and here it becomes even deeper. You can see a person’s body but not his mind. But the mind might be what creates the body. I am just trying to express that in a way in which it is visible.” Noriko Yanagisawa Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture 1965 M.A. in oil painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music 2003~2011 Professor of printmaking at Musashino Art University <Selected awards> 1964 32nd Japan Print Association Prize for Hijiri and Lips 1991 Cultural Encouragement Prize, Shizuoka Prefecture Board of Education 1999 Tokyo Station Gallery Prize for painting, Garden at the Waterfront '99, East Japan Railway Foundation 2001 Tenth Gen Yamaguchi Memorial Grand Prize for Garden at the Waterfront V, Numazu City <Selected Public Collections> The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Ikeda 20th Century Museum of Art, Shizuoka Kakegawa Ninomaru Art Museum Hamamatsu City Art Museum Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Sakata City Museum of Art Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa San Francisco Art Museum Noriko Yanagisawa Bio GALLERY LEÕES 1 - With its Wings Taken Off II 3 - Dreams of Land 4 - Dreams of Land 8 - From the Forest I 9 - From the Forest II 14 - Fragment I 15 - Fragment IV 16 - Fragment V 18 - Fragment X 3 1 414 15 16 18 8 9 GALLERY LOJA 2 - Pathos IV 5 - Journey into Primal Scene I 6 - Journey into Primal Scene II 7 - Lingering Nightmare 6 25 7