EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS

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...