Students visited Zurich, Switzerland, to attend the international symposium, “Rosetsu in Context,” held in conjunction with, Rosetsu – Ferocious Brush (Sept. 5–Nov. 4, 2018).
Curated by Khanh Trinh (Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Museum Rietberg) and Matthew McKelway, “Rosetsu: Fantastische Bilderwelten aus Japan,” was the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the paintings of Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754–1799), held outside Japan. The highlight of the exhibition was a reconstruction of the interior space of the Main Hall of Muryōji, the temple which possesses the best preserved group of paintings on sliding panels and hanging scrolls among a group of Zen temples in southern Wakayama Prefecture for which Rosetsu produced images in 1786-1787.
Symposium Program:
10:00. Welcome. Albert Lutz, Director, Museum Rietberg
10:10. Introduction. Khanh Trinh, Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Museum Rietberg
10:30. Noguchi Takeshi, Chief Curator, Nezu Museum
"The Tiger and Departure from Realistic Representation: Nagasawa Rosetsu
in Comparison to his Master Maruyama Ōkyo”
11:30. Alexander Hofmann, Curator for Japanese Art, Asian Art Museum, State Museums Berlin
"The Genius and the Bores – Or: Whatever Happened to Rosetsu’s Contemporary
Academic Painters?”
14:00. Yukio Lippit, Professor, Harvard University
"From Kisō to Kijin: Reconsidering Eccentricity through Ike no Taiga’s Two Chinese Poets”
14:40. Kadowaki Mutsumi, Visiting Professor, Osaka University, “Itō Jakuchū and Zen”
15:45. Matthew McKelway, Professor, Columbia University, "Nagasawa Rosetsu and Zen”
16:30. Panel discussion. Discussant: Melanie Trede, Professor, University of Heidelberg