WEAR ME / Life's Changes and Shifts

Yokohama
February 22 - March 5, 2011

Sanae Takahata well known for her WEAR ME dress shaped mixed media sculptures will be showing her new work at the Galerie Paris in Yokohama. This on going series which started in 2001 has been shown in Kyoto's Honenin Temple and renowned art galleries in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Also on exhibit will be new paintings and wearable art pieces.

Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011- Saturday, March 5, 2011
Time: 11:00 - 18:00
Opening Reception: February 25, 2011 (17:00 - 20:00)
At: Galerie Paris
Mitsuibussan Building 1F, 14 Nihon-odori Naka-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa
Telephone: 045-664-3917
http://www.galerieparis.net

Artist's Statement

Wearing a thin cloth of consciousness, we come into contact with the outside world. Interaction changes and shifts my consciousness. I project this ever changing and shifting consciousness on to familiar dress shapes.

WEAR ME is an on going portrait series of my consciousness that I started in 2001. As the base of my sculptures I use sheer white dresses that actually or symbolically fit my body. The dresses are like a second skin that is intimately familiar and a vessel that comes closest to containing my physical self. This base allows me to freely express my consciousness in flowing colors and shifting textures. These dress shaped sculptures are self portraits from different periods of my life.

I cannot stop the passing of my one life time, the changes in the lives of beloved others nor the daily flow of my surroundings. It is against this impermanence and brevity of life that I strive to create eternal time in my work.

Sanae Takahata


Life's Changes and Shifts - Panels 1, 2, 3 & 4
(100 cm x 400 cm) Acrylic on Canvas 2010


Crystals
(8.3 cm x 8.3 cm) Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2010


Evening Calm
(8.3 cm x 8.3 cm) Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2010


God's Ocean
(60.6 cm x 60.6 cm) Acrylic on Canvas 2010


Hakone Roots
(8.3 cm x 8.3 cm) Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2010


Miyake Sisters on Mount Minobu
(100 cm x 100 cm) Acrylic on Canvas 2011


Plateau Breeze
(8.3 cm x 8.3 cm) Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2010


Rousseau's Garden
(60.6 cm x 60.6 cm) Acrylic on Canvas 2010


Ryukyu Dance
(80 cm x 80 cm) Acrylic on Canvas 2011


Saint Francis Xavier
(60.6 cm x 60.6 cm) Acrylic on Canvas 2011


Hakone
(9 cm x 33.5 cm) Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2010


Mountain Breeze
(9 cm x 33.5 cm) Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2010


Whisper
(9 cm x 33.5 cm) Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2010


WEAR ME#1 Lotus (Front)
134 cm x 63 cm Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2001


WEAR ME#1 Lotus (Back)
134 cm x 63 cm Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2001


WEAR ME #23 New Year (front)
141 cm x 44 cm Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2008


WEAR ME #23 New Year (back)
141 cm x 44 cm Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2008


WEAR ME #24 Celadon (Front)
141 cm x 44 cm Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2008


WEAR ME #24 Celadon (back)
141 cm x 44 cm Acrylic on Canvas with Glass Beads 2008


WEAR ME #25 Okinawa Dance (front)
145 x 45 cm 2009


WEAR ME #25 Okinawa Dance (Back)
145x45cm 2009


WEAR ME #26 Dreamy Night in Hong Kong (Front)
145 cm x 45 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2010


WEAR ME #26 Dreamy Night in Hong Kong (Back)
145 cm x 45 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2010


WEAR ME #27 Hakone (Front)
145 cm x 45 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2011


WEAR ME #27 Hakone (Back)
145 cm x 45 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2011


Photo by: Takeshi Fukuhara