​Salon d'Automne

October 2020

"The Crowd" watercolour on paper, exhibition of selected painting

Tokyo, from Europe, 2020.

2020, Japan seen from far, from Europe.

Here - in Hamburg - Mayumi has her point of observation even if her heart travels where it wants, running towards the Orient: the glimpse prenetrates feelings and places; the dark colours speak of sadness and nostalgia;  sfumato quickly applied tells of anxiety and worry.

A painting divided in two, meaning a “before and after”: the world divided in two different times marked by a virus infinitessimal but very powerful that paralyzed everything, changing the life of everyone.

Tokyo before lockdown – immersed in the city’s frantic chaos making alive and true; and Tokyo after lockdown - slowed down, silent, almost unreal.

Some persons, here and there in the painting, suggests the hope of a life that starts again, gradually, as before.  Tokyo postponing 2020 Olympic games in a uncertain future that we don’t know yet.

An intense watercolour evoking traditional Japanese scroll format hanging - almost messaging - a good omen.