Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo - Kyoto | TKG Editions　Ginza - Kyoto

» Introduction:

　　Daisuke Fukunaga paints the most ragged scenes and the objects left behind. Shabby empty lots, worn-out mops, and wastes… Neither human figure nor even traces are present in Fukunaga's paintings. Instead, the scenes and objects exist themselves, as if they have stripped away the use-values that are usually attached to them, and bizarreness and some kind of attractive madness can be sensed from them.
　　Makiko Kudo's works feature familiar objects in imaginary scenes. Her works, created by her highly original sense of color and touch, possess the composition of multi-layered spaces, taking on fresh contemporaneity as well as sophistication of painting. Motifs such as girls, plants, and small animals are released from personal memories and integrated in canvases with the imagination, always fascinating the viewers.
　　Toru Kuwakubo has started his career as an artist in a theatrical manner, that is to invent in himself a fictitious painter. His painting style to mount thick layer of paint reminds us the Impressionist technique and the revival of paintings. The motifs of his paintings include the objects full of stories, the sea, and the unrealistic stages, which often evoke diverse emotions and imagination of the viewers. Kuwakubo has recently stated that the distance between himself and the fictitious painter had been eliminated.
　　"The painting to feel, rather than just to see". Satoshi Ohno stated that this is what he aimed. He creates sensual installation works and paintings that embrace various elements of installation. Ohno's works deal with the themes such as contact and fusion of nature and artifact and time, and his symbolic motifs include the primeval forest, portraits, transcending the gender, and prism as a source of energy.

» Concept:

Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto is pleased to present paintings by Daisuke Fukunaga, Makiko Kudo, Kuwakubo Toru, and Satoshi Ohno. They all have different approaches, but share the same sincerity toward painting as a method of expression. Their works embrace hopes and possibilities for painting, which has a long tradition.

» Artist Biography:

　　Daisuke Fukunaga was born in Tokyo in 1981. He graduated from Tama Art University majoring in oil painting in 2004. He currently works and lives in Kanagawa. He has held solo exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery in 2006 and 2008. He has also exhibited in group shows such as "AFTER THE REALITY 2 curated by hiromiyoshii" (2008) at Deitch Projects in New York and "VOCA 2009" at The Royal Ueno Museum. He also participated "Hello! MIHOKANNO" (2009) as a member of the artists group "MIHOKANNO" at Tokyo Wondersite Shibuya. He received The 1st Koji Kinutani Prize, The Mainichi Newspapers, this year.

　　Makiko Kudo was born in Aomori prefecture in 1978. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design with a specialization in oil painting in 2002. She is now based in Tokyo. Her work was exhibited in 2002 at the exhibition "Fragile Figures" (Palete Club), curated by Tomio Koyama, as well as the exhibition at Nadiff Tokyo and Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, "Tokyo Girls Bravo", curated by Takashi Murakami. Her other major exhibitions include "Time of My Life" (2004) at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, "MATRIX 213: Some Forgotten Place" (2004) at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and "Pretty Baby" (2007) at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, "neoteny japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection" (2008-2011, circuit exhibitions started at Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima), and "Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art (curated by Midori Matsui, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Japanisches Kulturinstitut、Cologne, Germany, 2009).

　　Toru Kuwakubo was born in 1978 in Zama city, Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department in Tama Art University in 2002. He currently lives and works in Kanagawa. In 2002, he received the award for the Tokyo Wonder Wall (sponsored by Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo). His major solo exhibitions include "The Woman Living on the Beach"（do ART Gallery, Seoul, 2007）"SCENERY OF TOMORROW"（bendixen contemporary art, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007） "Illusion of the Sea Ebbing Away"（Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany, 2006; "From Scratch: BLOOMFIELD"（Two person show with BOTAN YASUYOSHI, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, 2006）. His majoy group exhibitions include "Portrait Session" (Hiroshima Modern Art Museum; Nadiff bookshop, Tokyo, 2007).

　　Satoshi Ohno was born in Gifu prefecture in 1980. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2004, and left the Graduate School of Zokei University in 2006. He currently lives and works in Yamanashi. He has held solo exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery in 2006 ("acid garden") and in 2009 ("PROPHET"). –Ohno's other solo exhibitions include "Prism Violet" (The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007) and "PHYSICAL TREE" (magical ART ROOM, Tokyo, 2008). His group exhibition includes "Koshikijima Art Project" (Koshikijima, Kagoshima, 2004), "PRAHA project"(Sapporo, 2005), "ritual" (Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo, 2007), "THE ECHO"(ZAIM annex, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 2008), "Fukutake House '09" in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (2009), and "neo neo Part 1 [Boys]"(Takahashi Collection Hidiya, Tokyo).