Circle

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640
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Engels
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22x22x2 cm
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511 gr

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Through the ages the circular form has been used by artists and spiritual adepts all over the globe to express that which is whole and true, that which is beyond conditioned, limited thinking. Whether precisely drawn or spontaneously bursting from the brush, a circle can convey insight into the mystery of ordinary life and can invite us into the realm of profundity.

A potter centers a wedge of clay on the wheel and magically, the thin-walled, round vessel appears. Circles appear in the medicine wheels and dream catchers of North American indigenous peoples. The circle we call ‘zero’ frightened the ancient Greeks, while Indian philosophers embraced it. Theologian and mystic Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464) called the circle a symbol ‘whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is everywhere: the circle of infinite radius.’ A few centuries later, Wasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) falls in love with the circle, creating paintings in which flat, perfectly round colour disks floated against a black ground like celestial spheres. He wrote that the circle is ‘the most modest form, but asserts itself unconditionally.’

For Kandinsky the circle was the language of the cosmos, for Kazuaki Tanahashi, the circle is the language of this very moment. His bright, flowing multi-coloured circles eliminate the gap between East and West, between geometrical stillness and dynamic movement, between sacred and profane. They are at once intimate and all-embracing, inviting everyone into the circle of being, and radiating their vibrant message of hope and peace ever outward.

Circle is dedicated to the Zen brushwork of Kazuaki Tanahashi. After an introduction on circles and an essay on the circular form in human culture and in general existence, 85 pages show the reader a beautiful impression of the colourful work of Tanahashi.

 ‘A beautifully published book for a wide audience.’
From the review of Drs. C.J.G. v.d. Burg on bol.com

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