| A katazome print of a railway line in Hanoi by Japanese artist Toba Mika - Photo: The organizers |
The katazome exhibition will commemorate Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary and Nara City’s 1300th anniversary.
The Japanese artform is a method of dyeing fabrics using a resist paste applied through a stencil, something similar to Indonesian batik.
Toba Mika came to Vietnam in 1994, after traveling through other South Asian countries. She has painted around 100 Vietnamese landscapes and has had exhibitions in Hanoi in 2003 and in Hue in 2005.
In this exhibition, Toba Mika will introduce 35 paintings, mostly Vietnamese landscapes. She made prints of small streets in Hanoi, riverside houses in HCMC, urban scenes and tropical landscapes, which Toba Mika calls her own ‘world heritages’.
The prints show houses lining railway lines, walls scribbled with numbers and words and dimly lit slums.
After appearing in Hanoi the show will move to Yakushi-ji Pagoda in Japan.
