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

» Introduction:

Satoshi Hirose makes an installation that appeals to all our senses; to touch, to taste, to smell as well as to see, using materials that are in our daily life. Perhaps it was only natural that his concept, that a work should be a place where multiple cultures, old and new, rhythmically cross sprung up because he had lived in Milan for over 15 years. In order to feel the eternal universe within our daily lives, Hirose endeavors to making many trials. In the "Casa" series, he made portable housing for aroma using bees wax, spice, and orange that appeal to our sense of smell. In his series of "Journey", a theme that's shared also by all his works, there is "Viaggio", a series of photographs of the sky that he took as a traveler himself as he visited and passed on the globe by airplane. We the spectators are made aware that we ourselves live day to day as our body's functions detect the complex signals.

» Concept:

The exhibition title "il giardino dei sensi" derives from the novel of Italian novelist Mario Praz. A comprehensive installation will be shown, including "Untitled (Cosmology of the Beans)" a tableau using beans and wax, a sculptural work made of marble filled with water in which cineraria flowers float, and the same series of work that was also shown at The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum "Casa del albero di Arancia(House of Orange Tre)", and drawings.

» Artist Biography:

Satoshi Hirose was born in Tokyo in 1963. He graduated from Tama Art University in 1989. In 1991 he moved to Italy on fellowship of Italian government, and graduated from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1997. He lives and works in Milan and in Tokyo.
His selected exhibitions are "Lemon Project 03" at The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo in 1997. "Paradiso" at Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi in 1998. "2001" at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima in 2000. "Super Future" at Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato. "Neo Tokyo" at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. "Traveller" at nicolafornello gallery, Turin. "Officina Asia" at Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna and others in 2004. "The Distance for Touching the Sky" at the Sculpture Garden Museum VANGI MUSEO, Mishima in 2006. "Microcosmas" at Umberto di Marino Arte Contemporanea, Napoli in 2008. This will be his second solo show at Tomio Koyama Gallery since the 2001 solo show "Day, day, day", and the solo show "Blue Box" in 2006.