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Yasutake Iwana, "Pilgrimage"May 20th - June 24th, 2017 taguchi fine art, tokyo |
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Yasutake Iwana was born in 1987 in Mie prefecture. After his graduation from the painting course of Seian University of Art and Design in Kyoto in 2010, he stayed in Germany, studying at Art Academy in Duesseldorf as a guest student until 2012. Currently living and working in his hometown, Shimagahara village in Mie. Recently he held solo shows at MA2 Gallery in Tokyo and Gallery Hosokawa in Osaka. He joined the group show "New-wave Artists in Mie" at Mie Prefectural Art Museum in 2015. He is a founding representative of the art group, "Mitsunoki (tree with sap)" in Shimagahara village organized in 2013 and is leading various activities deeply rooted in its local history, climate and culture. His paintings are created in this activity, of which motifs are the nature and the religion in the village. In many case he starts the work from concrete objects around him, they are, however, highly abstract and really sophisticated. "It might be only a part in my painting but what is most important for me is to keep cultivating the earth (local ground). And the wish to reflect many stars in the sky on the surface of the water springing our from the deep hole of the ground." Yasutake Iwana On this occasion, aroung fifteen new paintings will be installed. Please come to take a look. From 17:00 through 19:00 on the opening day, Saturday, May 20th, we will have a reception for the artist. *This show is realized by the cooperation with the co-representing gallery of the artist, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo. checklist of the installation 1. Pilgrimage, 2017, oil on canvas, 65.2 x 53 cm 2. Light of Festival, 2017, oil on canvas, 45.5 x 38 cm 3. Bright Forest, 2016, oil on canvas, 130.3 x 97 cm 4. Seven Flowers, 2017, oil on canvas, 65.2 x 53 cm 5. Kannon-yama (17-01), 2017, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.7 cm 6. Village, 2016, oil on canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm 7. Matsukaze (17-01), 2017, oil on canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm 8. Starry Night, 2017, oil on canvas, 60.6 x 45.5 cm 9. Kannon-yama (17-02), 2017, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.7 cm 10. A Path in a Field, 2017, oil on canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm 11. Association of a Village, 2017, oil on canvas, 65.2 x 53 cm |