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New state of aesthetics with intercession
In the middle of severely heated August, I have received the e-mail from owner of DOKA Contemporary Arts, Chuichi Mogami. That e-mail said "I want to hold the exhibition titled "in Depth of Crack" with Takehiko Kikuchi and Hikaru Yumura." To tell the truth, it did not come tightly at that time. However, I consented to the title when I saw the pictures of both artist's work which I received later. Because the title leads me not only to external feature of works, but to the inner essence of aesthetics of both artists.

Kikuchi's works were expressed by watercolor, natural mineral pigments, Indian ink or rust, which were poured and drew with brush on washi (Japanese paper). Formerly, his works were composed with wide perpendicular lines accumulated closely which seems like <Stratum of Time>. In recent years, the lines got narrow like drippings and the style of painting has changed to emphasize the blank. The tip of dropping lines rounded like a root stock or spread like a puddle. Therefore, it gives the impression that an organic, natural feeling amplified. For Kikuchi, the line is not only to separate the space, it is the embodiment who inflames the passion of life. At the same time, what should make a special mention is that the lines which dripped by gravity are led by his aesthetics "Mutually exclusive dichotomy of making and coming". Which should be called "Aesthetics that receives intercession of nature".

Also, "Mutually exclusive dichotomy" is the exactly vital element for Yumura's sculpture which made of black granite. His trademark, the combination of the grinding surface like a smooth mirror and the crack with rugged surface, is that. If the grinding surface symbolizes the voluntary forming, the rugged crack should symbolize the forming of intercession which includes irrationality and chaos. It might be the aesthetics "Mutually exclusive dichotomy of making and breaking". His works are filled with a huge tension but also there is a humour that solves the tension through the skillful combination of conflicted elements. That is the unique characteristic of his sculpture.

In this exhibition, we might be able to appreciate the condensed new state of unique aesthetics of Kikuchi and Yumura. I would like to pay attention to Kikuchi's work, which stands upright with layered washi like a folding screen or a book that is opened and put up. There are short perpendicular lines which were accumulated only on the upside of the white screen. Though, the blank starts to move a esoteric time-space by the invisible colors, which appears from behind. And also Yumura's sculpture, which made of granite seems like separated by unknowable power, invites dazzle. I cannot help having expectations for this new exhibition "in Depth of Crack", which is composed of a layered washi and a space of shifted black granite which were piled up.
Haruo.Sanda
Takehiko Kikuchi
Hikaru Yumura
1960
Born in Ashikaga, Tochigi-Pref
1979 -
Exhibition of Kodo Bijutsu Japan(Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
1984
Completed the graduate school of Tama University of Arts.
1984
Exhibition at the Gallery Yamaguchi(Ginza), Tokyo.
1985
Modern art selection exhibition of Agency for Cultural Affairs.
1987
Exhibition at the Nisshin Gallery(Ginza), Tokyo.
1989
Received new excellent work prize of encouragement of "Yasuda Kasai Fine Art Foundation".
Modern art selection exhibition of Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Exhibition at the Nisshin Gallery(Ginza), Tokyo.
1991
Contemporary Japan Art Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum)
1992
Contemporary Japan Art Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum)
1993
Contemporary Japan Art Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum)
Karuizawa Drawing Biennale (Wakita Museum of Art)
Exhibition at the Nisshin Gallery(Ginza), Tokyo.
Exhibition at the Gallery In The Blue, Utsunomiya.
1994
Contemporary Japan Art Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum)
Exhibition of VOCA -The Vision Of Contemporary Art- (Ueno Royal Museum)
Exhibition at the Gallery Iseyoshi(Ginza), Tokyo.
1995
Contemporary Japan Art Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum)
The 13th Prize Exhibition of Yamatane Museum of Art -Contemporary Japanese-style Painting- (Yamatane Museum of Art)
Exhibition "About Line - Modernism of Absence, Invisibility Realism -" at Itabashi Art Museum.
Exhibition at the Gallery Renaissance(Shinjuku), Tokyo.
1996
Exhibition at the Shiseido Gallery(Ginza), Tokyo.
Exhibition at the Gallery You, Kyoto.
1997
Exhibition at the Futaba Gallery(Ginza), Tokyo.
Exhibition at the Gallery In The Blue, Utsunomiya.
Exhibition at the Art Gallery Kankankyo(Shimbashi), Tokyo.
1998
Exhibition "Pure and Border Transgression of "Japanese Style Painting" - From the aspect of 90's " at Nerima Art Museum.
Exhibition at the Gallery You, Kyoto.
1999
Exhibition at the Futaba Gallery(Ginza), Tokyo.
Exhibition at the Gallery Ginza Kyubi(Ginza), Tokyo.
2001
Exhibition at the Art Gallery Kankankyo(Shimbashi), Tokyo.
Exhibition "Japanese Style Painting - Present Day and Innovation" at Akino Fuku Art Museum in Tendo City.
Exhibition at the Toho Art(Ginza), Tokyo.
2002
Exhibition "Are There 5 Colors in Sumi(Indian-ink)?" at Nerima Art Museum.
2003
Exhibition of "Tracks of a Certain Businessman Collection" at Shunan City Museum of Art and History(Yamaguchi), Mitaka City Gallery of Art(Tokyo) and Fukui Fine Arts Museum(Fukui).
2004
Exhibition at the Toho Art(Ginza), Tokyo.
Exhibition at the Art Gallery Kankankyo(Shimbashi), Tokyo.
2006
Exhibition of "The Place" where the painter belongs to -Memory, scenery, and body in modern paintings-.(Kosugi Hoan Museum of Art, Nikko)
Exhibition "Takehiko Kikuchi X Jun Ogata" at Doka Contemporary Arts(Aoyama), Tokyo.
2007
Solo exhibition "5 Wind 10 Rain - 50 Narrow Path Drawings" at Toho Art(Ginza), Tokyo.
Solo exhibition at Matsuzakaya, Naoya.
2008
Solo exhibition at Gallery Heki, Ashikaga.
2009
Exhibition "Eyes of Two Oceans" at Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi.
Solo exhibition "Flatland Woods" at Gallery in the Blue, Utsunomiya.
Solo exhibition "Musashino is" at Court Gallery Kunitachi, Kunitachi.
2010
Exhibition "Suguru Hatanaka X Takehiko Kikuchi" at Gallery Kaze, Ginza.
Solo exhibition "Rain, Soil and Light - Scenery of Circulation" at Gallery Fantasia, Sano.
Exhibition "Takehiko Kikuchi X Hikaru Yumura - in depths of crack" at Doka Contemporary Arts, Aoyama.
Present
Professor of Tama University of Arts
Member of Japan Artists' Association
Member of Kodo Bijutsu Japan
1948
Born in Tottori Prefecture Japan.
1971
Graduated Tokyo National College of Fine Art, Division of Sculpture.
Studied at "Ecole des beaux-arts Paris".(-'72)
1970
Solo Exhibition at Athenes Français.
1971
Solo Exhibition at Tottori.
1973
Solo Exhibition at Athenes Français.
1974
Solo Exhibition at Sato Gallery, Tokyo.
1975
The 30th Kodo Exhibition. (Every year submission since this year)
1976
The 12th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan.
Solo Exhibition at Sato Gallery.
1977
The 13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan.
1978
Solo Exhibition at Sato Gallery.
1983
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo.
The 10th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded Kobe Suma Detached Palace Garden Prize.
1984
The 15th International Art Exhibition of Japan.
1985
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Yamaguchi.
The 4th Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Awarded the Superior Prize.
The 11th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture.
The 2nd Goverment Managed Showa Memorial Park Open-Air Exhibition. (continued submission in '86, '87)
1986
The 5th Yasudakasai Art Fundation Encouragement Award Exhibition, Awarded Excellent Artist Prize.
The 16th International Art Exhibition of Japan.
'86 Grand Sculpture Exhibition, 10th Asian Games Art Festival in Seoul.
The 10th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Suma Detached Palace Garden, Awarded Teiichi Hijikata Memorial Prize.
1987
The 5th Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Awarded the Superior Prize.
The 12th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Prize.
Awarded the 15th Nagano Open-Air Sculpture Prize.
1988
The 11th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Suma Detached Palace Garden, Awarded the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Prize.
1989
"Imagine '89" in Los Angels.
The 13th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded Ube Kosan Company Prize.
1990
The 12th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Suma Detached Palace Garden.
Solo Exhibition at Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo.
1991
The 10th Yasuda Kasai Art Foundation Encouragement Award Exhibition, Awarded Silver Prize. Participated at the 2nd International Stone Sculpture Symposium.
The 14th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded the Narional Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Prize, Awarded the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Prize.
1993
Awarded the 24th Nakahara Teijiro Excellence Prize.
1994
The Exhibition of Sculpture's Drawing at Asahikawa City Museum.
1999
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho, Tokyo.
2000
Awarded the 5th Kurayoshi City Green Sculpture Prize.
The 5th Exhibition of Green Sculpture Prize.
2002
Sculpture Exhibition at Galerie Vromans, Amesterdam, Holland.
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho.
2003
Solo Presentation at RAI Art Fair Amsterdam with Galerie Vromans.
2004
Participation RAI Art Fair Amsterdam with Galerie Vromans.
Solo Exhibition at Galerie Vromans, Amesterdam, Holland.
Chinese-Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duoloun Museum of Modern Art.
2005
Participation RAI Art Fair Amsterdam.
Exhibition "Meeting Point Japan" in Leenwarden, Holland.
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho.
2007
Exposition Galerie Moulin de l'eau, Bram, France.
Convergence International Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery, India.
2008
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho.
2009
Exhibition "Harmony of Plane and Solid - Tadaaki Okada & Hikaru Yumura" at DOKA Contemporary Arts.
"in Depth of Crack
- Takehiko Kikuchi & Hikaru Yumura"
Subway : Ginza-Line,Hanzomon-Line,Chiyoda-Line
10 minutes on foot from B1 exit of Omotesando Sta.
Takehiko Kikuchi + Hikaru Yumura
October 22 (Fri) - 30 (Sat), 2010
12:00pm - 6:00pm (Closed on Sunday)
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