
Yoichi Tanabe
The representation of landscape is a limited
invention of the wide and endless idea of nature, and thus, we have the
natural landscape, the urban landscape, the spiritualized or the inner one;
in all of them, anything that happens is like an event of the human. The
boat is an allegory of the vital journey, it contains all the way of life
and a world begins with it: it sails, it runs aground, it careens in the
dock, and it sails again. The natural landscape, with its beautiful and
cheerful blossomed fields, with its deep channels and woods crossed by
paths interrupted by vegetation, and which we don’t know where they can
take us, in their appearance, become a metaphor of the human as well.
In Tanabe’s landscape, some
distant factories haven often appeared whose chimneys rise as symbols of
social change. His painting, however, has been getting closer to the factory
until it has entered it, analyzed it from the inside and after this
introspective journey, the factory becomes a real inner landscape, a place
for transformation, metamorphosis and creation, a place for the process of
development of the complex inner world of man.
Marga Perera |