EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS

EXHIBITION

タイラクルカ Solo Exhibition

Ruca Tairaku Solo Exhibition 。Ten（Period） Claude Debussy, the composer renowned for Clair de Lune, and Claude Monet, celebrated for his Water Lilies, influenced one another and created several works inspired by their artistic exchange. Music and painting, two forms that resemble each other yet are fundamentally different, have long fascinated me in the way they interact. This time, inspired by that dialogue, I chose to work within fiction and painting, these two fields I am relatively comfortable with, creating both myself and bringing them together as a single body of work. Writing and painting are entirely different mediums, yet while composing a short story, I was once again struck by how much they share in common. For this exhibition, I plan to present the largest work I have ever created in Japan. I would be very happy if you could come and see it. Though the writing may be modest, the short story will...
EXHIBITION

Kohei Arano x Takuya Otsuki　Duo Exhibition

Kohei Arano x Takuya Otsuki Duo Exhibition「　in the white　」 As viewers, we stand face to face with the works.Where do the thoughts that arise, and that awareness, begin to lead us? Kano Tan’yū, a painter of the Kano school active in the early Edo period,established the concept of “the beauty of negative space” as a vital mode of expression in Japanese painting. “Subtraction.” The compositional elegance achieved through not depicting reveals, in a striking way, the aesthetic sensibility of the Japanese people. In this exhibition, two artists—Kohei Niino and Takuya Otsuki—who base their practices on Japanese painting,approach and respond to traditional aesthetic values through their respective works. Tan’yū’s depiction of “Waves.”To be conscious of oneself as part of that lineage. Two artists living in the present express this awareness in their own ways. “Presence” and “absence.” The beauty that drifts between the two. The white left upon the picture plane. What emerges there is...