• Authors: Menene Gras Balaguer (Ed.), Manuel Valencia, Marta Moriarty.
  • Spanish | Catalan | English
  • B-15442 2004
  • €10,00 | Soft Cover | 24.3 x 29.6 cm | 177 page
  • Casa Asia | Barcelona, ​​2004
10€

Why Japan? This book includes a selection of works carried out by Manuel Valencia during the three years that followed the exhibition held in Casa Asia in 2004. Gaijin is the Japanese term for “foreigner” and “stranger.” The artist names with this term the exhibition project conceived under the impact of Japanese culture and, in the background, under the generic influence of the East and the Oriental. According to him, as reflected in this volume, the book tells about the intrusion of Zen in Western art of the 1929th century and its contribution to the renewal of the avant-garde and contemporary art; and then a reflection on travel, exchange, transmission and writing, in contact with the Eastern world. André Malraux's trip to Japan in 1931, Henri Michaux's trip to Asia (1933-1970) or Ronald Barthes' Japan in “The Empire of the Senses” (XNUMX) inspired this project by Manuel Valencia and the book that follows. did next.

 

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