In Japanese, the ideograms 風 “wind” and 土 “earth” form FÛDO, the concept with which the environment is designated: a whole in which climate, landscape and culture participate. It is therefore not surprising that it was the term chosen to give its name to the first Japanese art gallery in Spain, which will open its doors in Madrid in just a few days and is dedicated exclusively to landscape.
“We claim to revive the substantivity of the landscape, to value the existential bond between landscape and human being, […] wherever we are, we are always the living landscape”. With these words its creators justify their choice, a reflection of the spirit with which they want to impregnate this new space in Usera.
Because of the intimate relationship between landscape and engraving, the presence of this technique will be the protagonist in the gallery, although there will also be room for “collaborating with artists who, working from other disciplines, make special emphasis on the environment, the climate and the landscape,” they point out.
Inauguration of the Japanese art gallery
The inauguration of Galería FÛDO, by Álvaro Cabal and Álvaro San Román, will be this Saturday, April 5, between 12 noon and 3 p.m. at 16 Andrés Arteaga Street.
Artist Enrique González will be present at the event, and his work -influenced by classical art, ukiyo-ejapanese and Wabi-sabi aesthetics- will star in the gallery’s first temporary exhibition: Naturaleza efímera (Ephemeral Nature).
Engraving in Spain, in this exhibition
At the national level, since February 10 and until May 18, 2025, the exhibition Aguafortistas, which gathers the legacy of the most important Spanish painter-engravers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, can be visited at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Calle de Alcalá, 13).