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4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Kitaoji Rosanjin’s graceful pottery; a dual show of Martin Wong and Aaron Gilbert paintings; the group exhibition “Latinx Abstract”; and Hou Zichao’s pixelized landscapes.
A sometsuke vase, displaying a cobalt blue calligraphic poem, by Kitaoji Rosanjin, c. 1940.Credit.Kitaōji Rosanjin and Joan B Mirviss Ltd; Richard Goodbody
April 21, 2021Updated 2:15 p.m. ET
‘Tradition Redefined: Rosanjin and His Rivals’
Through May 5. Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., 39 East 78th Street, Manhattan. 212 799-4021; mirviss.com.
The polymathic Kitaoji Rosanjin (1893-1959) widely known as Rosanjin was arguably the greatest Japanese potter of the 20th century. He was also a painter, engraver, lacquer artist and a master of calligraphy, as well as an antiques dealer and restaurateur who served his guests on tableware he made himself. In 1954, he traveled to the United States for an exhibition of over 200 works at the Museum of Modern Art (which has seven i
Photo: Beatriz Esguerra Art
Elsa Zambrano’s artworks are small universes to themselves, framed or boxed in defined spaces, and which reference cultural movements and historical images. Her latest series Constellations, therefore, is an appropriate title that builds upon the artist’s extensive repertoire as a collector of “memories,” and who began her artistic career as a lithographer and engraver while studying at the Fine Arts faculty of Universidad Nacional.
Zambrano (b.1951) began to create Constellations before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and not unlike her 2013 series Museo Imaginario, art itself – once again – is the lead protagonist, presented as small entablatures of commercial images, pop icons and modern masterpieces. “In the midst of the lockdown, the series took an unexpected turn.,” states gallery owner Beatriz Esguerra. “Little by little, objects, postcards, and images that comprise the artistâs personal archive began to resurge an