Rin Terada

Rin Terada ( Japanese 寺 田 琳 , Terada Rin ; * 1948 in Aomori , Japan) is a Japanese painter.

Life

At the age of six, Rin Terada turned to calligraphy and shortly afterwards won numerous competitions. His interest in Japanese painting awoke in 1967. At first he painted representational pictures in the Japanese style. The NITTEN organization, an institution that awards the country's most important art prize, became aware of him in 1974. Rin Terada's works have received three awards in the “Japanese Painting” category. but subsequently refrained from further participation. In the following years he remained a seeker who traveled from place to place and found his home in Zen Buddhism. Terada has lived and worked in Germany since 2000 and in Rathenow since 2007 .

style

Terada developed an independent technique that comes from the traditional Japanese painting technique of the Rimpa school and merges elements from Far Eastern calligraphy with the abstract art of the West. He works primarily with materials such as gold leaf , but also silver leaf, aluminum , acrylic and oil paints , ink on paper, silk, cotton and wood. His work ranges from naturalistic representations to minimalistic-abstract forms. In addition to these roots, Terada's technique has a very individual character. The fusion of elements from West and East is what defines his abstract pictures. Ultimately, however, all works are based on the Zen philosophy to which he has dedicated himself.

activities

In addition to his work as a painter, Rin Terada is also involved in German-Japanese cultural exchange by enabling young Japanese artists to exhibit in Germany. In 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, he organized several charity campaigns in Brandenburg to support his compatriots in northern Japan.

Exhibitions (selection)

In 2002 he presented his largest screen to date, “The Sea”, with a length of eleven meters. In 2008 he showed "Kokoro" (20 m × 2 m, 2 works) in Berlin's Charlottenburg Palace . With “Music, Fertility and History” (20 m × 52 m), his next monumental work was exhibited in 2011 in the Eberbach monastery in the Rheingau.

• 2008: Charlottenburg Palace Orangery in Berlin
• 2009: Gallery Kamigataginka in Osaka, ART Galerie G. Hoffmann in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• 2010: Gallery Accostage in Kagawa, Japan
• 2011: Eberbach Monastery, Germany

Web links

• Rathenower Rin Terada organized an exhibition in Berlin for artists from the tsunami area. ( Memento from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Allgemeine . October 11, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) 
2. ↑ Japanese 琳 派, hence his stage name Rin.