Welcome to a large scale dream world of escape from reality - the first Yukio Mishima themed immersive aesthetic exhibition in China.
From art installations to sound and photoelectric technology, from light and shadow illusions to real-life experiences, the works of world-class literary figures are transformed into an immersive aesthetic exhibition. In this exhibition, you can watch, visit, listen, feel, daydream, and take photos.
When the real-life is too hard, literature is a mega dream world in everyone's daily life. This time, we make the extreme of literature and aesthetics into a visual dream. Literature is for dreaming! Welcome to the universe of Yukio Mishima.
Who is Yukio Mishima?
He was the madman who lit up his life with literature, the madman who regarded beauty as his faith, the "Japanese Hemingway" who represented Japanese literature to the world, the genius who was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature but killed himself early ......
Yukio Mishima's life was like a candlelit at both ends, dazzlingly bright and burning wildly. At the age of 16, he was considered a genius, and at the age of 20, he became famous in the literary world; at the age of 30, he began to write "Kinkakuji", which was published at the age of 31. At the age of 45, he committed martyrdom and suicide. Since then, he has left the world with a mystery that is difficult to solve. Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese master to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, once praised Mishima as a "once-in-a-century true genius. China's Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan is also a big fan of Yukio Mishima. He once said, "Mishima was born for literature and died for literature. He is a complete literary man. Mishima used to be a man with emotions, but his suicide made him a god.”
Yukio Mishima, who created with his life, became the god of literary youth with his ultimate obsession and pursuit of beauty. This exhibition is a tribute to him, but also to literature and beauty, to life and to the immortal desire to be born human.
Recreate in a dream world the Kinkakuji Temple that was destroyed by fire in literature
"Is beauty the Golden Pavilion? If it is, then I suppose I must destroy it." Using a shocking case of the burning of Kinkaku-ji as inspiration, Mishima created one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century, Kinkaku-ji. Kinkaku-ji is about man's infinite quest for beauty and is Mishima's supreme masterpiece. "Humanity is prone to perish gestures, but floats the illusion of eternal life, and the immortal beauty of the Golden Pavilion floats the possibility of extinction." To read "Kinkakuji" is to read Yukio Mishima and the entire 20th century Japanese literature, and to appreciate the paradoxical and fragile nature of beauty, the supreme law of the world. Therefore, in the exhibition, we will recreate "Kinkakuji" with light and shadow technology to complete this huge dream dedicated to Mishima.
The "Dream of Kinkakuji" will be the most fascinating view of the exhibition. The golden scenery is set against the green imagery of the bamboo trestle, in which the huge phantom of the Golden Pavilion Temple stands, which can be seen but not touched. According to Plato, the world as we see it is actually a "shadow in a cave". This metaphor is also considered to be the most classic art theory - beauty cannot be seen directly, and what we see is only the reflection of beauty in reality. Welcome to step into the world of beauty and light, and dream with Yukio Mishima.
“The Sea of Plenty" is Yukio Mishima's last literary volume before he resigned. The tetralogy is a magnificent work that runs through the past and the present, in which the aesthetics of the East and the West converge in the extreme. It was hailed by Yasunari Kawabata as "a masterpiece of genius rarely seen in a hundred years". It was after writing this work that Yukio Mishima decided to suicide.
Mishima himself said: "The Sea of Plenty is the dry and desolate surface of the moon, and although it is called a sea, it does not live up to its name. I would like to use its double allegory to imply the emptiness of the world. The contradiction and contrast between bounty and desolation are the ultimate in beauty. ” Throughout his life, Mishima has been asking the question of "the dichotomy of beauty" through his creations, and we have turned this question into a set in the exhibition, with a huge moon rising above the sea of his words.
At the same time, opposite the "Sea of Plenty" scenery, the exhibition uses 3D light and shadow technology to create a huge sunset, reflecting the desolation of the moon as a tribute to Mishima's literature, which worships the sun as well as the night. Visitors who travel between the sunset and the full moon at the same time will enjoy an unprecedented immersive experience of the "dichotomy" of Mishima's aesthetics and his so-called "lyrical individual solitude".
But we need such moments of solitude, don't we? We need such moments of sensuality just as we submit to beauty. We need to confront again the great dream of literature in order to understand the world and ourselves again.
The first exhibition on the theme of Yukio Mishima's literature will be held in Lang Yuan, Beijing between August 13 and 15. This is an idealistic curatorial project. In a secret space of nearly 600 square meters, the exhibition creates 10 classic literary landscapes that can be heard, touched, felt, daydreamed and photographed, taking you through the world of the literary giants!
This time, we take the ultimate in literature and aesthetics and make it into a visual immersive dream. With modern photoelectric technology, we create a classical illusion of light and shadow. Can literature be touched? Can beauty be fully immersed? This time, we use literature, art, installation and technology to create a dream together!
Name: Yukio Mishima Literature Theme Exhibition
Time: 8.13-8.15
Venue: Lang Yuan Vintage - Lanjing Art Center (Building 7, Lang Yuan Vintage, Tonghuihe North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing)
Translated by LIU Yu
Edited by WANG Jingyan
