Spacing Out
Looking at Johannes Vermeer’s “View of Delft,” the subject is, as the title suggests, a view of the city, but the cityscape is contained in the lower half of the painting, and the upper half depicts nothing but the sky. This can be interpreted as an indication of the vastness of the sky in the lowlands of the Netherland, and at the same time, as an expression of the contrast between heaven and earth: on the ground, people go about their daily lives and the city changes from day to day, while the sky continues to mark the passage of time, unchanged for tens of thousands of years. After all, the subject matter is “the sky above.”
🅡 Gateau Yokohama
89-19 Sakae-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
10:00–18:00 (cafe-closes at 17:00)
Closed on Wednesdays
Tel: 045-441-2310
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Makoto MURATA
Born 1954. Formerly editor at “Pia”, art journalist and school principal at BankART School, and painter. Murata has had a studio in Yokohama since 2005, and has had solo exhibitions at Nadiff Gallery, SNOW Contemporary, Galerie Omotesando, among others. He has exhibited his work in “SENSOU-GA STUDIES” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum), “Foujita in the 1940s: Tributes” (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), and “Food, Art, People and The City” (Yokohama Display Museum), among others. Co-author of “Yokohama Public Art Compendium” to be released soon.