This 'living room' shot (cropped from a larger photo below) is actually a part of an important art exhibition titled Mastering Worlds; Exploring Space and Scale in Tribal and Asiatic Art that is taking place in NYC this weekend.
Not too long ago there was a debate in the Western bonsai community about whether bonsai should be recognized as an art. Fortunately, that debate has been put to rest (for most of us, at least). Bonsai at its best qualifies as art in every sense of the word.
Now to get the rest of the world and particularly the art world to recognize bonsai. In this light, there is an important exhibition happening at this very moment in NYC that takes a giant step the right direction (another important step, The Artisans Cup, is coming up this fall at the Portland Oregon Art Museum).
The following was lifted directly from Bjorn Bjorvala’s Bjorvala, Art, Nature, Design “Mastering Worlds; Exploring Space and Scale in Tribal and Asiatic Art” is the brainchild of Cole Harrell, president and CEO of his self-titled eponymous tribal art advisory firm (coleharrell.com), which focuses on arts of Africa and Oceania. The exhibition features an intermingling of Tribal, Oceanic, and Asiatic art, exploring “how cultures condense and materialize concepts of faith, identity, and belief.”
For more on this ground breaking event you can visit Bjorvala, Art, Nature, Design. Bill Valavanis, who seldom misses a trick, also has an excellent post on the exhibition.
This and the other photos in this post were borrowed from either Bjorn Bjorvala or Bill Valavanis, or both.