TAB Event - Kiyoshi Kawashima "The Depths 2”

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At Galerie Tokyo Humanité
Media: Drawing

Kiyoshi Kawashima was born in 1951. Dropping out of the art research department at the graduate school of the University of Tokyo in 1983, he left to live in America from 1986-88 with the support of the Asian Cultural Council, participating in the P.S.1 Project in New York City. After holding a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art in Iwaki City in 1993 and participating in the "Japan in the 90s - Proposals by 13 Artists" exhibition, Kawashima has in recent years exhibited works of sculpture, including a group exhibition with Takeshi Tsuchiya and Isamu Wakabayashi at the Museum of Art in Iwaki City, as well as the "Attitude 2007" exhibition at the Museum of Art in Kumamoto.
Kawashima uses iron, lead, wood, copper, wax, glass, plaster and other materials in his work, accumulating and composing these materials into works that reflect a complex layering of time and memory. Since 2000, he has explored the notion of a condensed body in his "Water Volume" series, continuing to question the possibilities of sculpture, conducting an interrogation of materials, their contrasts and relationships to each other.
This exhibition features new drawings of pencil and gouache on paper. In addition, Kawashima has recently begun to tackle copperplate printing, attempting to grasp the essence of drawings through their relationship to prints. Although drawings are usually seen as a kind of rough sketch or draft for other works, Kawashima shows that drawings can been understood as parallel works to the prints they help to create. These new drawings show a profound awareness of the sculptural depth and the sculptural processes inherent to these drawings, the paper showing the traces and results of his artistic process. About 6 to 8 works measuring 270 x 210 and 220ｘ174cm are on display.

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