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Katsumi Hayakawa Exhibition
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Katsumi Hayakawa
Katsumi Hayakawa was born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1970. After graduating from Nihon University College of Art in 1992, he moved to the U.S. and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts New York in 1998. Since then, he has exhibited his works on a global scale in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, and other countries. His work is in the collections of the Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Málaga, the US retail giant Target, and the Louis Vuitton collection.
In his early works, Hayakawa used an electric drill to remove layers of paint from his paintings. Based on the modernist viewpoint of the composition of color, surface, and line in painting, he has been exploring the overlap and similarity between the bird's eye view of a city and the image of an electronic circuit and has been exploring the dynamic interplay of micro and macro expression.
In 2010, Hayakawa began creating semi-3-dimensional works on paper. In this series, he has further developed the theme he has been working on in his paintings, and the double image has become clearer, blending a bird's eye view and a micro perspective. In addition, he has expanded the range of his themes to include the relationship between the work and the viewer, physicality, and memory.
This exhibition is composed mainly of two-dimensional works that capture images that come and go daily. In his new paintings, Hayakawa focuses on fixing the image on the canvas using a minuscule artifice. Hayakawa says that capturing and fixing phenomena that occur unintentionally on the canvas, such as color bleeding, water flow, and pigment sedimentation, is not so much a form of internal figuration as it is an external contact and communication with the outside world.
On the other hand, several small-scale works on paper are also exhibited in this exhibition. By mixing urban, systematic, and linear works with ambient, serene paintings, Hayakawa seems to be trying to express the state of the world itself.
In his early works, Hayakawa used an electric drill to remove layers of paint from his paintings. Based on the modernist viewpoint of the composition of color, surface, and line in painting, he has been exploring the overlap and similarity between the bird's eye view of a city and the image of an electronic circuit and has been exploring the dynamic interplay of micro and macro expression.
In 2010, Hayakawa began creating semi-3-dimensional works on paper. In this series, he has further developed the theme he has been working on in his paintings, and the double image has become clearer, blending a bird's eye view and a micro perspective. In addition, he has expanded the range of his themes to include the relationship between the work and the viewer, physicality, and memory.
This exhibition is composed mainly of two-dimensional works that capture images that come and go daily. In his new paintings, Hayakawa focuses on fixing the image on the canvas using a minuscule artifice. Hayakawa says that capturing and fixing phenomena that occur unintentionally on the canvas, such as color bleeding, water flow, and pigment sedimentation, is not so much a form of internal figuration as it is an external contact and communication with the outside world.
On the other hand, several small-scale works on paper are also exhibited in this exhibition. By mixing urban, systematic, and linear works with ambient, serene paintings, Hayakawa seems to be trying to express the state of the world itself.
Schedule | Sep 2 (Sat) 2023-Oct 7 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Gallery Momo Ryogoku https://en.gallery-momo.com/  | ||||
| Location | 1-7-15 Kamezawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0014 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit A3 at Ryogoku Station on the Toei Oedo line, 5 minute walk from the East exit of Ryogoku Station on the JR Sobu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3621-6813 | ||||
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