Exhibition ‘100 Views of Ukiyo-e, Volume 1: Masters’ by Muhamed Kafedžić will be opened tonight, 23 May in city gallery ‘Collegium Artisticum’, reports Fena.
Kafedžić explores the processes of media, different art movements and different cultures, and the issue of art process has a decisive role from the beginning of modern art through pop art, and to contemporary media in art.
Ukiyo-e Japanese for “pictures of the floating world” is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.
Series “100 views of ukiyo-e” is divided in 4 sets, each has 5 canvasses and the first one called ‘Masters’ present masters, styles and themes of Ukiyo-e.
Artist will be presented by his professor Ibrahim Krzović.
Kafedžić was born in 1977 in Zenica and finished his master studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 2012, and was awarded with the award of ‘Collegium Artisticum’ gallery for 2013.
