PrintHaiku Prelude - Haiku Kami by Carolina Khouri
Book launch & exhibition
Pop Up Gallery
12 St. Alban's Grove
London W8 5PN
Exhibition opening and the book launch
Sunday 11 March, 2.46-7pm
Closing Party
Tuesday 13 March, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues 11-13 March:
Sunday 2-7pm
Monday 2-7pm
Tuesday 2-9pm
That evening, in the Rue Raynouard, I realised quite vividly that if I were a painter, or if I had, often, that kind of emotion, or even if I had the energy to get paints and brushes and keep at it, I might found a new school of painting, of "non-representative" painting, a painting that would speak only by arrangements in colour. - Ezra Pound.
Haiku Prelude - Haiku Kami series features 27 paintings inspired by traditional and contemporary Japanese and western haiku. The project aims to portray each haiku poem and embody its visual energy through abstract painting. The style used in the project has been adapted from the painter Jarosław Kobylkiewicz who is responsible for originating this particular style and composition of painting. Freshness and clarity of thoughts in haiku is radiant although it has grown through many layers. It is a process of simplifying an idea to an absolute point. The complexity of each individual element of the paintings is built on other details to create a simple yet inseparable form and from this point the Haiku Prelude - Haiku Kami project started.
The project was conceived around the time of the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan in March 2011 and is dedicated to the victims of the disastrous events.
The book presenting the series will be launched during the Haiku Prelude - Haiku Kami exhibition, organised on the day of the first anniversary of The Great East Tohoku Earthquake.
Featured poets: Bashõ, Buson, Darek Brzóska Brzózkiewicz, David Cobb, Juan delGado, Caroline Gourlay, James William Hackett, Gary Hotham, Teiko Inahata, Issa, Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Herman Van Rompuy, Ryõkan, Ryõta, Kuniharu Shimizu, Takaya Soshu, Takaha Shugyo, Alison Williams, Richard Wright, Goto Yahan.
The book also includes an introduction by Kuniharu Shimizu (haiku poet and haiga artist) and the foreword by President of the European Council Mr Herman Van Rompuy (haiku poet).
All proceeds from the book sale will be donated to Momo-Kaki Orphans Fund which provides aid and encouragement for the children orphaned at this tragic day. The publication will also serve as an evolving memorial to those that suffered as a result of the last year March tragedies in Japan.
Carolina Khouri is a Polish-Lebanese visual artist specialising in painting, print, photography and mixed media. She was born in Lebanon, grew up in Poland, and has been living in London for seven years where she graduated as an interior designer. Carolina has no formal art training. Her art mentors were the established artists, who inspired her to penetrate innovative techniques and styles. Many of her paintings has been sold to private collections in Poland, Germany, USA, Lebanon, UK. She is the ASC artist. In 2011 she joined art group Page 6.
More information online
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Publisher: Haringey Arts Company
The publication is supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Polish Cultural Institute in London. The exhibition is supported by Baltic Restaurant. The project is supported by British Haiku Society