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Shigeru Nishikawa "Under Construction or Destruction: Layer and Gap"
Taguchi Fine Art
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Shigeru Nishikawa
Taguchi Fine Art is pleased to announce the first solo show by Japanese painter, Shigeru Nishikawa.
Shigeru Nishikawa was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1977. Withdrew from the Environmental Design Course in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Kinki University in 1997 and completed the Painting Course of the Osaka College of Art in 2002. In 2007 stayed in the U.S. for a year and assisted in the painting course at the Triform Camp Hill Community, a community for the disabled and able-bodied in New York State. He has had solo exhibitions in Nara, Kyoto, and Tokyo, and is currently based in Nara City and Kizugawa, Kyoto.
Nishikawa has been experimenting with abstract expression using buildings and structures under construction, renovation, or destruction, covered with fabric-like sheets that suddenly appear in the city as the subject. These "Shield House" works are painted with bold brushstrokes that depart from realism and reproduction, an appropriate technique to the theme, that is, the fluidity of all things and their creation and disappearance.
In this exhibition, two new series of works will be presented for the first time. The first is the "Layer" series, which is painted on a multi-colored striped background. The layers evoke the accumulation of time and geological strata. The second series, "Gap," is a development of "Layer," in which two canvases painted with different colors are horizontally shifted and joined together to be a support of the painting.
Shigeru Nishikawa was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1977. Withdrew from the Environmental Design Course in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Kinki University in 1997 and completed the Painting Course of the Osaka College of Art in 2002. In 2007 stayed in the U.S. for a year and assisted in the painting course at the Triform Camp Hill Community, a community for the disabled and able-bodied in New York State. He has had solo exhibitions in Nara, Kyoto, and Tokyo, and is currently based in Nara City and Kizugawa, Kyoto.
Nishikawa has been experimenting with abstract expression using buildings and structures under construction, renovation, or destruction, covered with fabric-like sheets that suddenly appear in the city as the subject. These "Shield House" works are painted with bold brushstrokes that depart from realism and reproduction, an appropriate technique to the theme, that is, the fluidity of all things and their creation and disappearance.
In this exhibition, two new series of works will be presented for the first time. The first is the "Layer" series, which is painted on a multi-colored striped background. The layers evoke the accumulation of time and geological strata. The second series, "Gap," is a development of "Layer," in which two canvases painted with different colors are horizontally shifted and joined together to be a support of the painting.
Schedule | Jun 4 (Sat) 2022-Jul 30 (Sat) 2022 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jun 4 (Sat) 2022 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.taguchifineart.com/installations/SNEinst1.html | ||||
| Venue | Taguchi Fine Art http://www.taguchifineart.com/Etop.html | ||||
| Location | B1F Yamasan Bldg., 2-6-13 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 5 at Shin-Nihombashi Station on the JR Sobu and Yokosuka lines, 5 minute walk from exit A4 at Mitsukoshimae Station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines, 8 minute walk from exit A5 at Ningyocho Station on the Hibiya or Toei Asakusa line | ||||
| Phone | 03-5652-3660 | ||||
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