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

» Concept:

Ochiai's first exhibition with Tomio Koyama Gallery since 1999, will include new paintings, drawings, and video. In the summer of 2003,Ochiai visited and filmed the summer-only amusement park, Tivoli, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ochiai's theme may be understood according to the following key words and phrases:'mathematician', Taking a walk, Everday, Inspiration and Calender. The exhibition includes series of drawings entitled Floccinaucinihilipilification, 29 letters long, the word is one of the longest found in the world. Floccinaucinihilipilification means literally no meaning or no value. The drawings present a mathematician meditating in a simple landscape. Like the random flow of numbers running in the mind of a mathematician, the letters of Floccinaucinihilipilification communicate the pattern Ochiai's inspiration. The exhibition will also include an artist?ﾕs book that Ochiai has been attempting to publish for some time. Entitled Tail Tale, the book concerned with fantasy and the tale of tails. For Ochiai, drawing becomes language.

» Artist Biography:

Tam Ochiai was born in 1967. Originally from Yokohama, Ochiai studied economics at Wako University and completed graduate studies in Fine art at New York University in 1993. The artist presently lives and works in New York City. Ochiai's work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions inside Japan, these include a solo exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery (1990) the group exhibitions Fiction, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo(2002).The artist has exhibited internationally at Team Gallery in New York(2002) as well as participating in the group exhibitions Dark Mirrors from Japan at De Appel, Amsterdam(2000), and Japan:Rising, Palm Beach ICA, Miami(2003). In January 2004, Ochiai's work was featured in a solo exhibition at Galleria Francesca Kauffmann, Milan.