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“Pairspective 001” Ryota Miyayama + yuzuki Duo Exhibition

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street, is pleased to announce a duo exhibitions “Pairspective 001” featuring Ryota Miyayama and yuzuki. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, September 28 to Sunday, October 20.

Opening party:September 28th, 2024 (Sat) 16:00-19:00

“Pairspective 001” Ryota Miyayama + Yuzuki duo exhibition main visual

The duo exhibition project ‘Pairspective’ is a two-person exhibition held on a single floor, featuring two artists.

This project explores the fusion of different perspectives and interpretations through the works of the two artists. It aims to elevate the unique expressions born from each artist’s individual viewpoint to a new stage through mutual dialogue. Each participating artist engages in this dialogue while maintaining their own identity, considering their unique techniques, motifs, concepts, and themes within a shared space. Discover art hidden within diversity, as this exhibition serves as a platform to explore the limitless possibilities brought by differing perspectives.

The exhibition of Miyama and Yuzuki at biscuit gallery follows their participation in last month’s ‘grid NEXT‘ and will be held on the 3rd floor of biscuit gallery.

Please enjoy the exhibition alongside Hiroyuki Mori’s solo exhibition on the 1st floor and Fukumi Nakazawa’s solo exhibition on the 2nd floor, which will be held concurrently.

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Ryota Miyayama

2004 Born in Saitama, Japan
2023〜 BFA, Musashino Art University

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yuzuki

2004 Born in Japan
2023〜 BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts 

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Pairspective 001
「Ryota Miyayama + yuzuki」

Venue:biscuit gallery 3F
Dates:September 28 (Sat) 〜 October 20 (Sun)
Time:13:00〜19:00 ※Mon, Tue, Wed closed
Admission Free
Produced by biscuit gallery

Opening party:September 28 (Sat) 16:00-19:00

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Fukumi Nakazawa Solo Exhibition “The Complementary Other Body”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street, is pleased to announce Fukumi Nakazawa’s solo exhibition “The Complementary Other Body”. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, September 28 to Sunday, October 20.

Opening party:September 28th, 2024 (Sat) 16:00-19:00

Fukumi Nakazawa solo exhibition “The Complementary Other Body” main visual

This will be Nakazawa’s first solo exhibition at biscuit gallery, held on the 2nd floor.

Please enjoy it alongside Hiroyuki Mori’s solo exhibition on the 1st floor and ‘PairSpective 001’ on the 3rd floor, which will be held concurrently.

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Fukumi Nakazawa

1996   Born in Kochi
2015   BFA in Oil Painting, Kyoto University of the Arts
2017   Studied abroad at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2020〜  MA in Animation, Estonian Academy of Arts

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Fukumi Nakazawa solo exhibition

“The Complementary Other Body”

Venue:biscuit gallery 2F
Dates:September 28 (Sat) 〜 October 20 (Sun)
Time:13:00〜19:00 ※Mon, Tue, Wed closed
Admission Free
Produced by biscuit gallery

Opening party:September 28 (Sat) 16:00-19:00

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Hiroyuki Mori Solo Exhibition “Golden Cloud Pro Wrestling”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street, is pleased to announce Hiroyuki Mori’s solo exhibition “Golden Cloud Pro Wrestling”. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, September 28 to Sunday, October 20.

Opening party:September 28th, 2024 (Sat) 16:00-19:00

Hiroyuki Mori solo exhibition “Golden Cloud Pro Wrestling” main visual

This will be Mori’s first solo exhibition at biscuit gallery, held on the 1st floor.

Please enjoy it alongside Fukumi Nakazawa’s solo exhibition on the 2nd floor and ‘PairSpective 001’ on the 3rd floor, which will be held concurrently.

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Hiroyuki Mori

1982 Born in Fukuoka
2009 MFA in Art department at Hiroshima City University Graduate School

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Hiroyuki Mori’s solo exhibition

“Golden Cloud Pro Wrestling”.

Venue:biscuit gallery 1F
Dates:September 28 (Sat) 〜 October 20 (Sun)
Time:13:00〜19:00 ※Mon, Tue, Wed closed
Admission Free
Produced by biscuit gallery

Opening party:September 28 (Sat) 16:00-19:00

 

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Group Exhibition “International Dialogue”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce the group exhibition, “International Dialogue.”
With the cooperation of curator Jens Petersen, we will introduce a “dialogue” between Japanese and foreign artists through exhibitions.
The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, May 18 to Sunday, June 9, 2024.
This exhibition will be held simultaneously at biscuit gallery karuizawa.

A reception will be held on the May 18 (Sat) from 16:00 to 19:00.

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We live in times when humanity rejects science and humanism. People in power fail at taking appropriate measures against man made climate change, and lack understanding that oppression and violence only breeds more violence. Polarization between groups of different values widens, and intellectually based arguments are ignored.

In such a state, it’s imperative to nurture settings where persons of different backgrounds can communicate and get acquainted. The art world should welcome all voices, explore new ideas, and challenge the status quo.

International Dialogue pairs four Japanese artists with four foreign artists. Each pair works in a similar realm, sharing the form of expression, media, style, motif or motivation. The goal is to create a dialogue between their artworks. How do artists of different cultural backgrounds approach comparable questions? What can we see and learn when diversities meet? biscuit gallery’s three floors in Shibuya, plus the space in Karuizawa, provide four distinct venues for dialogue between the pairs’ creations.

We invite you to experience a conversation between Korean and Japanese threads on the ground floor in Shibuya, expressive figurative paintings from Tokyo welcoming their Mexican peers on the second floor, and on the top floor a philosophical discussion by abstract paintings hailing from Sweden and the southern island of Kyushu. In the Karuizawa gallery, memories are shared between landscape paintings of Yamagata and Taiwan.

Watch how brushstrokes and colours resonate with each other. Listen for light whispers from obscure figures. Feel the warmth shared by connecting textiles. And imagine a world where all humans urge for that same level of mutual understanding.

Jens Petersen

 

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Jens Petersen

Jens Petersen is a Swedish art lover and collector living in Tokyo for the past 15 years. During the pandemic he wanted to do something more with his art interest and started studying curation, including a course at Node Center in Berlin. International Dialogue is his first exhibition.

“Through my curation I want to increase opportunities for foreign artists to show their art in Japan, and help Japanese artists to exhibit abroad. International Dialogue is a natural first exhibition as it pairs four foreign artists who have never before exhibited in Japan, with four domestic artists who have had limited, if any, exposure to the overseas art world.”

“The pairs are categorized into textile, figurative, abstract and landscape art, and shown in one distinct space each. It may seem like four separate exhibitions, but I hope visitors can see a red thread. First through the exhibition title, with the dialogues going on between the artworks. Secondly, I’m attracted to art that questions what is visible to the human eye. It can be a layered painting which changes character due to the available light, an artwork which makes you travel outside of the canvas (literally in the physical space or mentally in your mind), or a work that doesn’t immediately show what it is or what it wants to tell you. I think all eight artists possess this quality.”

Jens Petersen

 

Participating Artists 

biscuit gallery (Shibuya):

Seongeun Lee
Rentaro Kawamoto
Elizabeth Ibarra
Sawako Nasu
Hanna Zelleke Collin
Emumoto

biscuit gallery karuizawa (Karuizawa):

Fu Ning
Takuro Goto

 

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Group Exhibition “International Dialogue”

【biscuit gallery (Shibuya)】
Location: biscuit gallery 1-3F
Dates: Saturday, May 18 – Sunday, June 9, 2024
Time: 13:00 – 19:00 *Closed Monday – Wednesday
Free Admission
Sponsored by biscuit gallery

【biscuit gallery karuizawa (Karuizawa)】
Dates: Saturday, May 18 – Sunday, June 23, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 18:00 *Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Free Admission
Sponsored by biscuit gallery karuizawa

Curator: Jens Petersen

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Group show “grid next : Emerging Artists Showcase”

grid next
Emerging Artists Showcase

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce the launch of its first open call project exhibition, “grid next: Emerging Artists Showcase.”

biscuit gallery has been actively showcasing promising young contemporary artists from Japan. In 2024, under the slogan “Global Action,” we will expand our presence overseas. We are committed to promoting collaborations with contemporary artists who can thrive not only domestically but also on a global scale.

The exhibition “grid next” is a project aimed at artists who have not previously exhibited at biscuit gallery, inviting a wide range of applications from art school students and artists. Following the format of the annual exhibition “grid,” multiple works by each artist will be displayed on each wall of the gallery space. We plan to feature approximately 25 artists across our gallery’s three floors.

【grid next  selected artists】

Last Update:2024/7/1

Furthermore, as part of this exhibition, we are offering the opportunity for “3 artists” to hold solo exhibitions at our gallery space.

【Exhibition information】

Title:grid next : Emerging Artists Showcase
Venue:biscuit gallery(Shibuya)
Dates:August 10th (Sat) 〜 August 25th (Sun), 2024
Organized by biscuit gallery

【Application Details】
Please review the details of the application below.

https://biscuitgallery.com/en/grid-next-news/

Application deadline: May 31st, 2024     ※Closed

【Inquiry】
info@biscuitgallery.com

 

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Yutaka Shimomura×Yennie Ebihara×Kodai Mishiro “SOLO SOLO SOLO vol.7”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street, is pleased to announce three solo exhibitions featuring the artists Yutaka Shimomura, Yennie Ebihara, and Kodai Mishiro. The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, April 25 to Sunday, May 12.

Launched in April 2022, this will be Vol. 7 of SOLO SOLO SOLO.
The featured artists are introduced below.

Yutaka Shimomura  (1F) solo exhibition ” XXX”

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1999 Born in Shiga, Japan
2022 BFA in Oil Painting from Kyoto City University of the Arts
2023    Enrolled in Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department

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Yennie Ebihara (2F) solo exhibition “Before the Current’s”


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2003 Born in Japan, raised in Hong Kong
2021 – Current BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
2022 Recipient of the Keiichiro Kume Scholarship Fund

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Kodai Mishiro  (3F) solo exhibition

” W A  V   E  W   A  V E W A  V    “

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1989 Born in Oita, Japan
2020 MFA, Musashino Art University

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This project will have further iterations in the future.

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Yutaka Shimomura×Yennie Ebihara×Kodai Mishiro
“SOLO SOLO SOLO vol.7”

1F:Yutaka Shimomura solo exhibition “XXX”
2F:Yennie Ebihara solo exhibition “Before the Current’s”
3F:Kodai Mishiro solo exhibition ” W A  V   E    W   A  V E   W A  V   E “

Venue:biscuit gallery 1F – 3F
Dates:April 25 (Thu) 〜 May 12 (Sun), 2024
Hours:13:00〜19:00 ※Closed on Mon, Tue, and Wed
Admission:Free
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biscuit gallery 3rd anniversary exhibition “grid3”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce a group show commemorating the third year of the gallery’s opening, biscuit gallery 3rd anniversary exhibition “grid3.” It will be on view from Saturday, February 24 , 2024.

biscuit gallery 3rd anniversary exhibition “grid3”

Opening its doors in March 2021, biscuit gallery (Shoto, Shibuya-ku) will celebrate its third anniversary this coming March 2024.

“grid3,” will be held as a group exhibition to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of biscuit gallery, featuring over 50 artists who have exhibited at the gallery in the past, those who will exhibit in 2024, and other noteworthy artists. The exhibition will be divided into two periods: the first will be held from 2/24 (Sat) to 3/17 (Sun), and the second from 3/23 (Sat) to 4/14 (Sun). The exhibition will be widely spread over three venues; held simultaneously at biscuit gallery karuizawa in Karuizawa and Tsutaya in Kyoto.

As in the past, each artist will exhibit their work on one wall section and/or one display stand. We hope you will enjoy the works of each of the featured artists.

“grid3” designed by Takatsugu Saito

【How to acquire artworks】

Please a request for purchase for “grid3 first-half” from the link below by 19:00 on Feb. 25th, 2024

grid3 second-half price list

【grid3 Information】

grid3
biscuit gallery 3rd anniversary exhibition

Location: biscuit gallery(Shibuya)
Dates: Feb 24 (Sat) – Apr 14, 2024 (Sun)
*First period: Feb 24 – Mar 17・Second period: Mar 23 – Apr 14
*Works may be changed during the respective exhibition periods.

First Half Preview: 
February 23, 2024 (Fri) 15:00 – 19:00
*Open to people who have purchased from biscuit gallery in the past.

Second Half Preview: 
March 22, 2024 (Fri) 15:00 – 19:00
*Open to people who have purchased from biscuit gallery in the past.

3rd Anniversary Party
February 23, 2024 (Fri) 17:00 – 20:00
Location: Establishment near the gallery

  Participating Artists:
【First half: 2/24 – 3/17】

Kosuke Ajiro, Yuri Ando, Yennie Ebihara, Yurina Okada, Occidensuke, KAYA, Mariko Kitajima, Tokio Kudo, Nanami Saito, Yutaka Shimomura, Machi Sugita, Ittetsu Tsuji, Erika Naka, Saori Nagata, Yumi Nagata, Sawako Nasu, Karin Hayashi, Takahiro Matsumoto, Kodai Mishiro, Akina Mihara, Hiroyuki Mori, Yulala Mori, Saku Morikawa, Miyu Yamada, Yu Anthony Yamada, Yosuke Yamanouchi, Rhee Donghoon, Liao Yuan-Yi, Ryota Watanabe​

【Second half: 3/23 – 4/14】

AD, Rikako Inoue, Hal Osawa, Bishwobikramgurung Okamoto, Keisuke Kagetsu, Maiko Kasai, Yumeno Goto, Honami Konishi, Chotei, Emika Tsunoda, Fukumi Nakazawa, Sawako Nasu, Ai Natori, Yuta Nishiura, Eri Fukami, Yuta Fukuhara, Nono Fujita, pop_osushi, Hinako Matsuoka, Hal Matsuda, Yasuyo Maruyama, Koga Miura, minori, Keita Motooka, Yulala Mori, Ryotaro Yamaguchi

biscuit gallery karuizawa
Dates: Mar 14 (Thu) – Apr 8, 2024 (Mon)
*First period: Mar 14 – Mar 25・Second period: Mar 28 – Apr 8

  Participating Artists:
【First period: 3/14 – 3/25】

Occidensuke, Honami Konishi, Saori Nagata, Yumi Nagata, Kodai Mishiro, Hiroyuki Mori, Yulala Mori

【Second period: 3/28 – 4/8】

AD, Keisuke Kagetsu, KAYA, Sawako Nasu, Karin Hayashi, Hinako Matsuoka, Akina Mihara

Kyoto TSUTAYA BOOKS (6F Gallery)
Dates: Mar 16 (Sat) – Apr 7, 2024 (Sun)
*First period: Mar 16 – Mar 26・Second period: Mar 28 – Apr 7

  Participating Artists:
【First period: 3/16 – 3/26】

Occidensuke, Mariko Kitajima, Honami Konishi, Nanami Saito, Fukumi Nakazawa, Saori Nagata, Hinako Matsuoka, Yasuyo Maruyama, Kodai Mishiro, Hiroyuki Mori, Yulala Mori

【Second period: 3/28 – 4/7】

AD, Hal Osawa, Bishwobikramgurung Okamoto, KAYA, Sawako Nasu, Karin Hayashi, Eri Fukami, Hal Matsuda, Koga Miura, minori, Akina Mihara, Ryotaro Yamaguchi

Main Visual Design: Takatsugu Saito
Art Handling: Yuta Fukuhara

Collaboration with;Gallery SP、SH GALLERY and Kyoto Tsutaya
Sponsored by biscuit gallery

 

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Yulala Mori “TRUE ROMANCE”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce Yulala Mori’s solo exhibition, “TRUE ROMANCE.” The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, January 11 to Sunday, January 28, 2024.

A reception will be held on the January 13 (Sat) from 16:00 to 19:00, with the artist in attendance.

Yulala Mori solo exhibition “TRUE ROMANCE” main visual

All three floors of the gallery will be used for Yulala Mori’s very first solo exhibition. 

Please look forward to the exhibition space created by up-and-coming artist Yura Mori.

 

TRUE ROMANCE

Romantic movies and music, beautiful light and colors, a cinema of paintings for all romantics who love them, a love letter from YULALA
(Yulala Mori)

《Uma》 Oil on canvas, 727×606mm, 2023

《Girl with big thumbs》 Oil on canvas, 1620×1303mm, 2023

 

Artist Profile

Yulala Mori

1996 Born in Tokyo
2020 BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
2022 MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts (Scholarship Program)

Working mainly in oil and watercolor, Mori also creates three-dimensional works, large-scale neon tube art, and other free forms of expression.

Inspired by romantic movies, music, art, books, people, nature, and the universe, she imagines romantic stories with a spirit of respect and pure love, and expresses them as art with a unique sense of color. She aims to create the best works of art every day.

She also presides over the “World Peace Project,” which believes that the world would be a more enjoyable place if it were filled with romantic art and people, and is responsible for the graphics for WACKO MARIA and the artwork inside the flagship store PARADISE TOKYO, playing an important role in reflecting the brand’s worldview in a more romantic way.

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2023 “Intersection”, Ginza Tsutaya ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan (Group)

Art Fairs

2023 ART FAIR TOKYO (biscuit gallery booth), Tokyo

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Yulala Mori Solo Exhibition
“TRUE ROMANCE”

Location:biscuit gallery 1F – 3F
Dates:Jan 11 (Thu) – Jan 28, 2024 (Sun)
Time:11:00 – 19:00 *Closed Monday – Wednesday
Free Admission
Sponsored by biscuit gallery

Reception: January 13 (Sat), 16:00 to 19:00
※Open admission

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グループ展「biscuit gallery Christmas exhibition」/ Group show “biscuit gallery Christmas Exhibition”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce the group show, “biscuit gallery Christmas Exhibition.”
It will be on view from December 14 (Thu) to 24 (Sun), 2023.

biscuit gallery (Shibuya) Participating Artists:

Yurina Okada
Hotaru Tachi
Shinji Nakakaze
Sawako Nasu 
Yuta Nishiura
Yuta Fukuhara
Kodai Mishiro 

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This exhibition will also be held during the same period at biscuit gallery karuizawa.
The biscuit gallery karuizawa exhibition period will be from December 9 (Sat) to 17 (Sun), 2023.

biscuit gallery karuizawa (Karuizawa) Participating Artists:

Daichi Igarashi
Rikako Inoue
Shinji Nakakaze
Sawako Nasu
Yuta Fukuhara
Saki Fujikawa
Kodai Mishiro
Saku Morikawa

 

This exhibition will conclude our yearly program.
We look forward to seeing you there.

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Group Show “biscuit gallery Christmas Exhibition”

【biscuit gallery (Shibuya)】

Location: biscuit gallery 1-3F
Dates: Thursday, December 14 – Sunday, December 24, 2023
Time: 13:00 – 19:00 *Closed Monday – Wednesday
Free Admission
Sponsored by biscuit gallery

【biscuit gallery karuizawa (Karuizawa)】

Dates: Saturday, December 9 – Sunday, December 17, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 18:00 *Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Free Admission
Sponsored by biscuit gallery karuizawa

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biscuit gallery group exhibition “re2”

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce “re2,” the second iteration of the group show “re.” The exhibition will be on view from October 10.

An opening party will take place on the October 8 (Sunday) from 16:00 to 19:00, featuring handmade catering by Yuki’s Kitchen. The two featured artists are also expected to be in attendance.

biscuit gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “re vol.2”, featuring Ai Kumehara and Kenta Takahashi, from October 8 to October 28, 2023. Continuing from “re,” this exhibition aims to be a partial sampling of today’s art scene, with the underlying intention of sharing with viewers a place to recapture and rethink our artistic soil today, where Western-compiled contemporary art and Japanese art intersect.

 

The exhibition title, “re,” refers to the prefix meaning “again” or “back”, and for that etymological reason, “re” is accompanied by some original or confronting matter. At the same time, this “thing to confront” is one of the main themes of this exhibition, and the purpose of this exhibition is to reexamine the expression of a part of today’s art scene that exists as a result of the acceptance of contemporary art as an alien species within a country that already had a distinct form of art, and to reconsider the possibilities of “contemporary art” for us without eliminating both of these two factors.

 

However, to avoid misunderstanding, both Kumehara and Takahashi in this exhibition (although they share a broad definition of “contemporary Japan”) are artists with different artistic interests, and the purpose of this project is not to provide an opportunity to analogize their common ground in terms of expression. The gist of this project is twofold: to explore the soil shared by two artists with different orientations, and to introduce the outstanding work of two artists on that soil with intermingling factors. In inviting the two artists, we have introduced the accompanying motif of “surface and depth” in “re” this time. The former is a paraphrase of the expression form of Japanese painting after the 2000s, and the latter is a paraphrase of the expression of the presence or absence of margins in Japanese painting. I hope to build an opportunity to think about our art from two observation points, “what we can see” and “what we cannot see (directly).”

 

Then, what is “depth”? I define “depth” as the area that is not in front of our eyes, but can be sensed by premonition, or the sensibility itself. It is the mind that senses something in the dark and is frightened, the hidden nuance behind the words, or the world in another person’s head. In order to think about this, the exhibition relies on the words “Amari no Kokoro” (a mind of abundance) as described by the mid-Heian poet Fujiwara no Kinto in his “Waka Kuhin” (Nine Grades of Poems), and “Yori-no Kokoro” (Lingering, or emotion that drifts outside of the words) as described by Kamo no Chomei in “Mumyo Sho” (his theory of poetry) in later times. The work is not tangible, but one has the feeling that it is there, just because it does not appear. In this “re” exhibition, we would like to consider this point with paintings by Ai Kumehara, who has intentionally used fixtures to create a blocking effect on her paintings, suggesting an unidentified presence. She creates a duality of “visible and invisible” in her paintings, that is, she presents the viewer with a picture that makes us foresee and imagine existence through absence. This “not in front of you, but you can feel it” is the “inner” touch that I would like to consider in this exhibition, and it seems to me that there are many poetic languages that describe this uncertain sense of touch in the history of art that we carry with us.

 

Kenta Takahashi, on the other hand, is a painter who, in his own words, sees Japanese painting as “something that has remained,” and based on the cultural transformation and alteration of the Meiji and postwar eras, understands and practices the context of Japanese painting today based on his unique historical perspective. His paintings are based on the reality of life in today’s digitized world and the modernity of modern city dwellers, and he incorporates the unique line drawing techniques and particle-like textures of Japanese painting, while mixing them with the sensibilities of the generation born in Japan in the 1990s. Many of his paintings seem to confront the Japanese sense of iconography and painting techniques and attempt to bring them into contemporary painting. “The art history of the place where I happened to be born was not consistent with that of the West at least,” he said. “But I don’t want to despair. I want to think of a positive way to look at it,” he continues, breaking down the complicated intertwined factors of art history into its elements and starting from the soil where they coexisted rather than ignoring each and every one of them, which sometimes seem to contradict each other. It is the part that examines formalism, but only in the way that he adheres to it, and it seems to begin with identifying “what has remained,” to use his words.

Text by: Shinzo Okuoka

Translation by: Elizabeth Jesse

Artist Profile

Ai Kumehara
1989 Born in Saitama
2015 MFA in Japanese Art, Tama Art University

After creating a sketch with highly transparent paints, she applies thin Japanese paper over the entire screen and colors it with rock paints. Once the screen is reset to translucent, the boundaries of colors and shapes are blurred, and the depicted objects are abstracted. The artist depicts animals on the screen as “something suggestive” based on his experience of confronting animals that suddenly appeared in the places where he stayed where people had disappeared due to the lockdown caused by the coronavirus.

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Kenta Takahashi
1997 Born in Aichi
2021 BFA in Japanese Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
2023 MFA in Printmaking, Tokyo University of the Arts

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biscuit gallery group exhibition
“re2”

Location: biscuit gallery Floors 1 – 3
Participating Artists: Ai Kumehara, Kenta Takahashi
Dates: Sunday, October 8 – Sunday, October 28, 2023
Time: 13:00 – 19:00 *Closed Monday – Wednesday
Free Admission
Collaborator: Shinzo Okuoka
Sponsor: biscuit gallery

Opening Party: October 8, 2023 (Sunday), 16:00 – 19:00
The artists are expected to be in attendance.