{"id":19708,"date":"2025-10-02T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enlighten-gallery.com\/en\/?p=19708"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:55:12","slug":"interlude-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enlighten-gallery.com\/en\/interlude-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlude Scenes\u2014\u2014OZU Wataru&#8217;s Solo Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"632\">OZU Wataru (b.1991, Tokyo, Japan) received his MFA in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts. Deeply inspired from childhood by <em data-start=\"220\" data-end=\"230\">Yamato-e<\/em>, the Rinpa school, and <em data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"263\">ukiyo-e<\/em>, he weaves the Japanese philosophical aesthetics of <em data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"320\">ma<\/em>\u2014the beauty of intervals\u2014into his practice. On canvas, <em data-start=\"375\" data-end=\"379\">ma<\/em> structures a visual rhythm that allows viewing to move beyond mere imagery, transforming into a temporal experience: suspended instants and flowing traces intertwine, much like interludes in music, where fleeting silence marks the presence of rhythm.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"1290\">In Ozu\u2019s painting practice, Eastern and Western traditions are not oppositional but interwoven. The concept of \u201cemptiness\u201d in Chinese painting can be traced to the flourishing of Zen thought during the Southern Song dynasty\u2014where painters like Ma Yuan and Xia Gui used the interplay of void and substance to create a tension between the finite and infinite. By contrast, the Japanese notion of <em data-start=\"1028\" data-end=\"1032\">ma<\/em>, shaped by Chinese painting, Zen Buddhism, and Noh theater, is a conscious aesthetic philosophy. Its meaning extends beyond stillness to denote the intervals between sounds, movements, and events, emphasizing emergence and rhythm within perception itself.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1292\" data-end=\"1695\">Today, the idea of <em data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1315\">ma<\/em> has long transcended regional culture, resonating in global aesthetic discourses: the balance of light and shadow in architecture, pauses in music, and moments of stillness in dance all embody a profound awareness of <em data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1537\">ma<\/em>. Ozu\u2019s painting responds to this cross-disciplinary sensibility\u2014carrying forward Japanese traditions while reframing them as a contemporary mode of seeing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"2205\">For this exhibition, Ozu reinterprets the framework of Western still life through a contemporary lens, in dialogue with the 17th-century European tradition of <em data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"1865\">Vanitas<\/em> painting. Originally, such works used symbols like skulls, decay, or domestic objects to remind viewers of life\u2019s transience and the vanity of earthly glory. In Ozu\u2019s hands, these motifs\u2014traditionally bound to death and impermanence\u2014are released from the sense of terminal stillness, and through <em data-start=\"2162\" data-end=\"2166\">ma<\/em>, are transformed into a visual flow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212;<br \/>\nInterlude Scenes\u2014\u2014OZU Wataru&#8217;s Solo Exhibition<br \/>\nPeriod\uff5c2025.10.18\u201312.6<br \/>\nOpening reception\uff5c2025.10.18 15:00<br \/>\nVenue<span class=\"s1\">\uff5c<\/span>1F., No. 222, Shidong Rd., Shilin Dist., Taipei<br \/>\nTel<span class=\"s1\">\uff5c<\/span>+886-2-28310558<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OZU Wataru (b.1991, Tokyo, Japan) received his MFA in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts. Deeply inspired from childhood by Yamato-e, the Rinpa school, and ukiyo-e, he weaves the Japanese philosophical aesthetics of ma\u2014the beauty of intervals\u2014into his practice. 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