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In 2019, I organised the touring solo art project "Conversation with Ruskin" for the celebration of the bicentenary of John Ruskin's birth. An artist, art critique, writer, social thinker, and Oxford professor, to name but a few, Ruskin led the Gothic Revival, and provided the ideological foundation for the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was one of the most influential figures in Victorian England. This project was supported by Arts Council England and held at the Brantwood in Coniston and The Ruskin in Lancaster University, the academic centre of John Ruskin. This is one of the 12-Gold series, "Round Stone". It is well known in the visual industries that the visual image does not have a "negative form". Visual images are far more ambiguous in regards to referentiality than text. Since humans achieved visual expression through drawing and painting long before the invention of writing, visual art occupies a prominent position in human cultures and civilizations. At the same time, we have no idea how to express the referentiality that text can eloquently describe. I wanted to turn the ambiguity to its advantage to give it a multi-faceted meaning. Here is a stone around one metre in diameter, like those I find on a daily walk. However, I have deliberately drawn it as round as possible to make it look like the moon. In this way, I wanted to show the diachronic and synchronistic meanings of the image. Diachronically, I tried to trace the passage of time, while synchronistically, I attempted to show the coincidental occurrences of historic events through a single image, referencing the fact that 2019 was the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing by Apollo 11. Ruskin could never have imagined either the Moon landing. The series is designed as semiotic portrayals of the core human experience that makes up the "Cultural Landscape", for which the Lake District received designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:16 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:17.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:White Canvas
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Hideyuki Sobue (b. 1965) lives and works in the Lake District, UK, yet grew up as an orphan in Aichi, Japan. Working with drawing and painting, two historic media that have served as a fundamental means of communication since prehistoric times, he explores the unbroken line in the relationship between art and humanity. Sobue uses an entirely original brush hatching technique employing Japanese sumi ink and acrylic. Created through a fusion of influences - the concept of Disegno in the Florentine school of the Renaissance, oriental artistic heritage and neurological studies - Sobue’s medium attempts to create a platform bridging east and west, and explore the interdisciplinary approach related to the human act of seeing. Sobue has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Japan. Notable exhibitions include “A Letter to the Earth from Beatrix” commissioned by the National Trust and supported by Arts Council England
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