Jacqueline Hassink @ Benrubi Gallery

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Jacqueline Hassink @ Benrubi Gallery

March 13th, 2015 by fstop

Hōsen-in 1, Winter, Northeast Kyoto, 14 February, 2011 (14:00 – 16:30)

Jacqueline Hassink – View, Kyoto
March 26 – May 9, 2015

Opening reception with the artist: Thursday, March 26 6 – 8 PM

Hassink’s images are suffused with the unique appeal of Japanese architecture and landscape even as they create their own aesthetics. Temple design is scaled to the 1:2 ratio of the tatami, itself ordered to the size of a human body. Hassink’s lens brings out this human point of view, her camera positioned as if the viewer were now standing, now seated on a mat; poised at a threshold or located on the veranda between temple and garden. The composition of the photographs is as carefully considered as the sacred spaces they reveal, highlighting the balanced yet never static interplay between interior and exterior spaces in temple design. The rigidity of the temple’s lines and angles is played off against the softer garden forms seen through open doors or unglazed window. The browns and golds and whites of the interiors, with here and there a spot or stripe of bold red, collage with the brown, grays, and greens of the gardens to create a single meshed field. If, initially, the perception is one of division between human and nature or terrestrial and divine, it soon becomes one of continuity between two realms. Neither is wholly constructed or found; neither could exist without the other.

Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001

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