Anna Nova Gallery presents Fedor Hiroshige's personal exhibition 'Foxfire' — a journey through the worlds of the author's mythology where national and oriental cultures are intertwined. The image of fire in this journey illuminates the path of the heroes and becomes the main guide between dimensions.
The title of the exhibition refers to the engraving 'New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji' by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige. Peering into the lunar landscape filled with foxes and lights, Fedor Hiroshige creates an author's remake of this work, turning foxes into godlike Bodhisattvas traveling between different worlds.
Inspired by Japanese folklore, Buddhist rebirth ideas and representations of Chinese literature, Fedor Hiroshigepiecing together a vigorous post-ironic rebus in which everything is not what it seems. The aesthetics of manga and Soviet monumentalism merge. The gates of Torii and Tibetan books are made from birches, a red-haired girl becomes a fox and an all-consuming fire suddenly turns into a cleansing element.
'What helps us understand the works of Fedor Hiroshige is their impermanence, the deceptiveness of the visible, arising from modest natural materials and their internal properties,' explains art historian and researcher of cultural ties between Russia and Japan Viktor Belozerov. - 'The evasiveness of Hiroshige's images, especially where a flat image wants to escape into the world of dimensions, endows his artistic world with a force that unites national materiality and eastern spirituality. Birch torii cease to be so alien, bringing together the Shinto space of the spirit and the recognizable wood ornament.'
Tickets can be purchased at the gallery.
Standard – 200 rubles
Consession – 100 rubles
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