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[Kyoto Tsutaya Bookstore] An intersection of expression by 14 artists active in Japan and abroad, including Yuten Shimomura, Yutaka Hashimoto, and Hime. Group exhibition “Junction” will be held from December 22nd (Friday)
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Kyoto Tsutaya Bookstore (Kyoto Takashimaya S.C. [T8] 5F/6F,
Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City) will be holding a group exhibition ” Junction” will be held.
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From the left:
Hime《I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.》Acrylic on canvas, 162 x 130.3cm (2023)
Yuten Shimomura《Re-touch #7》cotton cloth, acrylic, transfer sheet on panel, 60 x 81cm (2023)
Yutaka Hashimoto《Study for Nothing (Portrait of Someone #138)》Acrylic on canvas, 145.5 x 112cm (2023)
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Kyoto Tsutaya Shoten will be holding “Junction,” a group exhibition featuring 14 artists active both domestically and internationally. In this group exhibition, Hime, who graduated from Kyoto Seika University and started working as an illustrator in 2019, is gaining popularity by drawing modern women in a sophisticated style while being influenced by 80’s culture. Yutaka Hashimoto, who graduated from Saga Art College and Osaka College of Design and presents works using unique characters, is currently studying at Kyoto City Graduate School of Arts, and is currently studying images and relationships with characters through digital devices and networks. 14 artists with different nationalities, bases of activity, production methods, and materials will present mainly new works, including up-and-coming artists with ties to Kyoto, such as Yuten Shimomura, who thinks about sexuality. Please take a look at the intersection of expression by up-and-coming artists.
Participating artists | Junko Iwaoka, Bofu Oda, Samehoshi, Yuten Shimomura, Geoffrey Bouillot, Ryosuke Hod, DELUXESTO, Tomohiro Todoroki, Bell Nakai, Yutaka Hashimoto, Hime, Shunyo Higashi, Arata Higuchi, Haruka Makita (14 people)
*During the exhibition period, exhibits may be changed depending on the contract status.
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From left: Ryosuke Hodge, “Love and Rock”, acrylic on canvas, 116.7 x 91 cm (2023), Geoffrey Bouillot, “Karuyou”, acrylic on canvas, 72.7 x 60.6 cm (2022)
Participating artist profile
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Hime
■Hime
Born in Osaka in 1986. From 2004 to 2007, enrolled in the Story Manga Course, Department of Manga, Kyoto Seika University. In 2008, he started working as a photographer while working in the fashion industry. After moving to the United States in 2013, he took photos for overseas brands, and after returning to Japan, he moved to Tokyo and worked as a photographer in the fashion industry, taking photos for various fashion brands both domestically and internationally. Started working as a freelance digital illustrator in 2019. He handles various designs such as apparel prints, song jackets, and posters for concerts and pop-ups. At the end of 2020, he created a canvas work using acrylic and presented it for the first time at artKYOTO 2020. Started full-scale activities as a contemporary art artist in 2021. Currently active in works focusing on “modern girls with 80’s taste”. [Image 4
Yutaka Hashimoto
■Yutaka Hashimoto
Born in Osaka in 1979. Graduated from Saga Art College, Department of Fine Arts. Graduated from Osaka Sogo Design College, Department of Visual Design. “The characters that serve as motifs in my work are common images that I created.They are given a stroke order and symbolized, and through repeated writing, the process of preservation and change occurs as many afterimages in the work, similar to time-lapse photography.” Each time the viewer sees a character that is not in his or her memory, a process occurs in which the viewer evokes and refers to the character in their memory to identify the difference between their own memory and the work, and this process makes the work a strong painting. In addition, it can be used not only as a work of art, but also as a recording medium, and as a device to strengthen the bond between the viewer and the viewer, who have feelings of “I don’t understand” and “What is this?” towards the character. It serves as a record of a living person, as a portrait with a unique aspect.
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Yuten Shimomura
■Yutaka Shimomura
Born in Shiga Prefecture in 1999. Currently enrolled in the master’s program at Kyoto City Graduate School of Arts, majoring in painting. I am thinking about the images and relationships with characters that I interact with through digital devices and networks. Solo exhibition “# ¥ Re-touch”/KUNST ARZT/Kyoto, group exhibition “grid 2″/biscuit gallery/Tokyo, “ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO”/Kyoto Cultural Museum/Kyoto, “Osaka Kansai International Art Festival”/Osaka Fuchunoshima Library, Grand Front Osaka/Osaka, “Exhibition of Works”/Kyoto City University of Arts/Kyoto (all in 2023), and many others
■Sumiko Iwaoka
Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1982. Completed the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. Currently based in Tokyo. He creates works by focusing on the problems of images that we casually accept from illustrations and catalogs. This time, we will exhibit a series of works that compare the scaled-down illustrations with the actual size, as well as a series of drawings in which daily necessities are doodled on auction catalogs to give a sense of life. ■Mifuu Oda
Born in Wakayama Prefecture in 1997. Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Art Planning in 2020. The symbolic image of a “girl” is combined with the shading of acrylic paint, the touch of a painting knife, and an abstract expression of color mixing to express the fluctuations of a girl’s fluid mind and color world.
■Samehoshi
Born in Kyoto in 1997. 2020 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting. “I use acrylic paint to depict something “girl-like” that repeatedly collapses and forms, in order to capture the moment when I myself am forgotten or forgotten, and undergo irreversible changes.”
■Geoffrey Bouillot
Born in Burgundy, France in 1994. Influenced by two styles, pop art and cubism, he creates his work in a unique style consisting of metallic stacked cylindrical and spherical forms.
■Ryosuke Tei
Born in Japan in 1968, raised in Kobe. A third-generation Chinese artist whose grandparents immigrated to Japan from Shanghai. Graduated from Tama Art University in 1993, majoring in oil painting. From 2022: Concentrate on artist activities. He has been active as a designer both domestically and internationally for the past 25 years, and has been involved in projects related to characters for NIKE, Nintendo, Bandai, SEGA, SANRIO, etc. He has distinguished himself in fields such as character design and illustration. Using the original character D.O.A.T., he fuses character culture and street culture, flexibly uses character construction techniques, and creates many attractive works. ■DELUXESTO (Deluxe)
Born in Miyazaki Prefecture. Lives in Tokyo. Since his teens, he has been interested in fashion and street culture. “Are the images of men wearing caps or men with bowed heads, which are often used as motifs, the longings, ideals, and illusions of when they were immersed in fashion and street culture, or are they a deeper impression or feeling? I’m not sure, but I feel like I’m designing the image of an attractive person within myself.My current creative stance is to face myself, believe in myself, not set limits on myself, be free, and contribute to something. etc. I continue to have fun while creating, with an emphasis on pursuing myself.”
■Tomohiro Todoroki
Born in Tokyo in 1974. He is the first Asian artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Mille Miglia museum in Italy, the pinnacle of classic car racing, and his work is also included in the collection of the Italian National Automobile Museum. In the 2020 new Shofuku series, we lovingly present local toys that were born from the climate and lifestyles of various parts of Japan, and that have been loved for many years while being associated with local legends and beliefs, with wishes for warding off evil spirits and prosperity for descendants. I’m drawing.
■Bell Nakai
Graduated from Silpakorn University, Thailand, in 2008, majoring in Japanese, Faculty of Letters (studyed abroad for one year at Osaka University of Foreign Studies), and in 2012, graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University, majoring in Japanese (master’s course). In 2014, he stayed in Brussels, Belgium for three years, and in 2019 he began his creative career as a self-taught contemporary artist. Exhibited at a group exhibition in Tokyo for the first time upon recommendation from an art collector. After that, he worked both domestically and internationally. Based on the expressions of Japan’s unique “shojo manga” and “pop culture,” she conveys a worldview where cuteness and suffocation coexist. I aim to be “free, fun, and sometimes a little aggressive,” and my themes are based on what I feel in everyday life.
■Haruyo Higashi
Born in 1995. Graduated from Kyoto Zokei University, Department of Information Design, Illustration Course. “After graduating from Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2018, I began my career as an artist.I present and protect each frame or page of a manga as an independent moment in itself, rather than as a part to be collected into a story. At the moment when they resist being captured by a story even though they exist in a series, they are trying to express that each person exists for their own sake.”
■Arata Higuchi
Born in Mie in 1988. Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Arts and Crafts in 2011. In 2013, completed the master’s program in artistic expression at Kyoto University of Art and Design. Higuchi uses his solid Japanese painting skills to create colorful pointillisms of chameleons. The chameleon, whose body is covered in dots from top to bottom, is overflowing with vitality, as if it could jump out of the screen at any moment. The unique sense of the world created by Higuchi’s excellent Japanese painting techniques and finely honed sense of color has earned him great popularity not only in Japan but also overseas.
■Haruka Makita
Born in Kyoto in 1988. Lives in Osaka. In 2011, graduated from the Illustration Course, Department of Visual Design, Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University. While being influenced by past works such as ukiyo-e, he incorporates modern sensibilities to create works that create a sense of the connection between past and present time. About sales
The works on display at the venue will be available for viewing from 11:00 on Monday, December 22nd.
Entries will be accepted for all works until the 24th, after which they will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
The online art marketplace “OIL by Bijutsu Techo” will sell some works from 11:00 on Monday, December 25th to 23:59 on Tuesday, January 9th. https://oil.bijutsutecho.com/gallery/1131
*Sales may end before the start of the exhibition period depending on the pre-sales situation.
Exhibition details
Junction
Date: December 22, 2023 (Friday) – January 9, 2024 (Tuesday) Time｜11:00-20:00
Venue | Kyoto Tsutaya Bookstore 5F Exhibition Space
Sponsored by Kyoto Tsutaya Bookstore
Cooperation｜YOD Gallery & YOD Editions
Admission｜Free
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