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a single pieces of wood, leaving it unpainted and allowing the marks of making and knots in the wood to remain. The wandering Buddhist priest is a favorite subject of Kishino's oeuvre; there are several in the collection shown by Ippodo Gallery. The first of these is Unsui, a novice priest, carved from 350-year old pine from Ryokoin Temple. His hands are clasped before him in accordance with the Zen ritual for leaving a room. Another priestly figure, Rakan or Arhat (the Rakan were the original disciples of the historical Buddha) is, like a Giacometti figure, attenuated to almost a flame-like sliver, carved from an old roof shingle with the grain still visible, its surface finished with candle soot. A third figure is So, is one of solemn beauty, a self-contained, slender, robed figure. One senses around him the emptiness and silence sought by Kishino. So is a lone cipher in a peaceful landscape, much like that his material hails from; he is carved from the branch of a huge cedar that fell at Mount Fuji's Sengenjinja shrine. Sho Kishino, an artist both emphatically Japanese and distinctly modern, imparts lessons in creation all artists would be wise to imbibe. In a world increasingly enamored of the virtual, Kishino venerates nature in material and the concentrated, meditative power inherent in making something by hand. H Ippodo Gallery 12 East 86th Street, New York +1 (212) 967-4899 HYLAND

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