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Two Workings Turn Toward Integration From Confrontation
A lot of guides have been pointing out, "There are two confronted types in arts as organic and geometrical or as concreteness and abstract". These two contrasted types have been repeating the discord through the ages when either of them are more remarkable than the other side. For instance, Renaissance period that organic and concreteness ruled the age, and the 20th century that geometrical and abstraction ruled, oppositely. The base of painter Tadaaki Okada and sculpture Hikaru Yumura is the latter type either, that might be not irrelevant to the middle of 20th century, when they receiving the life. But yet we should note that they never swallow the type of the age, and not leave all of works to it.
The work of both has proven realistically. Moreover, their works seem even to contain the attention of skepticism to geometrical and abstract type which cover the age. It seems like they turn toward "One in the middle area" or "Dual one" between the two types, if I borrow the words from French novelist André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Okada's screen is often divided in the rectangle, which divided into geometrical area in a word. However, it is different from the search for the principle wholly-devoted to start all over making the structure appear by heat because of the light of the intellect. In the first place, paint in screen is not homogeneousness, and there are plural stains of infinite form and segments with different directions. Because his works summon a organic motion into screen, which missed in geometric and abstract type. A similar impression will be able to be received from the sculpture of Yumura made from granite.
It can be said that it will dodge purity which the type impose though it is geometrical and abstract based certainly. As Okada whisks off the gravity which follows around geometrical and abstract type with free interventions of stains and segments, Yumura calls an organic dynamism into works with two composition methods mainly. For one thing, it settled plural parts which cut and shifted subtlety. As another, it confronts a surface which polished like mirror and a cut surface which is baring a rugged and bumpy section. The form contains a witty, humorous and a little thrilling sign, and it exudes the feel of vitality. There is nothing except saying that the strangeness of the skill that knows the material of stone thoroughly is special. Probably, Okada and Yumura are both keep searching the integration of confronted two types without belonging to either of two types of the art, like putting the body on the beach.
Haruo.Sanda
Tadaaki Okada
Hikaru Yumura
1948
Born in Saitama Pref.
1974
"L'espoir" (Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo 1976,1979)
1975
Completed the graduate school of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
Ohashi Prize Award
1982-1985
"ING-82" (Kinokuniya Gallery, Kamakura Gallery, Gallery 21, Tokyo)
1983
Art Exhibition "North Kanto" (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art)
1984
"Tadaaki Okada" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama)
"Tadaaki Okada" (Gallery 21, Tokyo)
1988
"Modern Art 120 Artists" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama)
1989-2007
"Contemporary Art Festival" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama)
1991-1995
"EXIT" (Gallery Center Point, Tokyo)
1991
Makurazaki Biennale "Art of Wind" (Makurazaki,Kyushu)
1994
62nd Dokuritsu Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
Encouragement Prize Award
1995-1999
"Tadaaki Okada" (Gallery Yaesu, Tokyo)
1995
63rd Dokuritsu Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
Dokuritsu Prize Award
1996
64th Dokuritsu Exhibition (Member's recommendation) (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
1998
Exhibition of the Selected Contemporary Works
1999-2008
Saisho'99 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama)
1999
'99 KOREA JAPAN ART FESTIVAL (Seoul, Korea)
2000-2008
"Tadaaki Okada" (Ginza Gallery Sumhole, Tokyo)
2000
"ALL ARTS" (GALLERY UNICORN, Saitama)
2001
"1st Contemporary Artists of JAPAN-BANGLADESH" (DHAKA Zanul Gallery TOKYO Cyuwa Gallery)
2002-2006
"8 Eyes of Brand-new Artists" (Gallery Kaze, Tokyo)
2002
"Viewpoint of 4 Artists" Yutaka Eda, Tadaaki Okada, Fumitoshi Shirono, Hisa Matsunaga (Ginza Gallery Sumhole, Tokyo)
"Collaboration of Noh Play and Modern Art" (Collaboration with Noh player Rokurou Umewaka) (Autun, France)(Autun, France)(Brussel, Belgium)(Alkmaar, Holland)
Stay in France as Overseas artist dispatched by Agency for Cultural Affairs
2008
"Poetic Sentiment of Black & White" (DOKA Contemporary Arts, Tokyo)
2009
Exhibition "Harmony of Plane and Solid - Tadaaki Okada & Hikaru Yumura" at DOKA Contemporary Arts.
Present
Membr of Dokuristu Art Society
Member of Artist federation, Japan
Member of Artist Society, Saitama Pref.
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.
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