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Yuko Someya "I See You in the Wild Flowers"
Tomio Koyama Gallery Tennoz
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Yuko Someya
This exhibition marks Yuko Someya's first solo exhibition in seven years and will focus on new works. Someya intertwines familiar landscapes with memories from her childhood, experiences of life changes, and fundamental aspects of life such as death, birth, and nature. She explores these themes to develop her unique expressions. Someya's fantastical artworks, where various animals and plants coexist, could be considered contemporary versions of traditional Japanese bird-and-flower paintings.
In her creative process, Someya meticulously sketches with a pencil to create outlines. She then traces these outlines onto washi paper, applies color, and cuts out the shapes, layering them multiple times on canvas to construct the composition. Finally, she completes the artwork by drawing with sharpened pencils or ink, creating a world within the piece. Someya incorporates whitespace as if erasing time, aiming to express sounds like the opening of flowers or the falling of petals, crafting her works as if writing poetry.
In the 2010s, Someya focused on the technique of "Sujimaki," a method used in the ink paintings of Jakuchu Ito. By primarily using Sujimaki, Someya's artworks expanded further.
Her new work, "Not With Knowledge but With Intent," depicts mountains with clouds, rain, and lightning, expressing the sensation of experiencing overwhelming nature, a feeling of surprise in the body. Born and raised in the reclaimed land of the Kanto Plain, Someya reflects on the strong beauty and fear of nature and ponders what nature means to people.
"The Troubled Ones" is one of the still-life paintings from the "Tulpa Series." "Tulpa" in Tibetan means "emanation," representing an entity created by spiritual or mental power. After giving birth, Someya felt a strong gaze while walking the usual route home, only to find nothing but the same tree. Similarly, she felt the gaze elsewhere, only to find wildflowers. This artwork symbolizes her mysterious sense of perceiving plant-like energies similar to humans.
For Someya, flowers are distant from "death." She finds the expression "withering" more beautiful than "dying" when describing flowers and plants.
Inheriting the tradition of historical Japanese expression, intertwining with her own life, Someya vividly depicts the cycle of life and death in nature through her keen sensibility and the hazy, gradient colors on her canvases, capturing the blink of nature's cycle.
In her creative process, Someya meticulously sketches with a pencil to create outlines. She then traces these outlines onto washi paper, applies color, and cuts out the shapes, layering them multiple times on canvas to construct the composition. Finally, she completes the artwork by drawing with sharpened pencils or ink, creating a world within the piece. Someya incorporates whitespace as if erasing time, aiming to express sounds like the opening of flowers or the falling of petals, crafting her works as if writing poetry.
In the 2010s, Someya focused on the technique of "Sujimaki," a method used in the ink paintings of Jakuchu Ito. By primarily using Sujimaki, Someya's artworks expanded further.
Her new work, "Not With Knowledge but With Intent," depicts mountains with clouds, rain, and lightning, expressing the sensation of experiencing overwhelming nature, a feeling of surprise in the body. Born and raised in the reclaimed land of the Kanto Plain, Someya reflects on the strong beauty and fear of nature and ponders what nature means to people.
"The Troubled Ones" is one of the still-life paintings from the "Tulpa Series." "Tulpa" in Tibetan means "emanation," representing an entity created by spiritual or mental power. After giving birth, Someya felt a strong gaze while walking the usual route home, only to find nothing but the same tree. Similarly, she felt the gaze elsewhere, only to find wildflowers. This artwork symbolizes her mysterious sense of perceiving plant-like energies similar to humans.
For Someya, flowers are distant from "death." She finds the expression "withering" more beautiful than "dying" when describing flowers and plants.
Inheriting the tradition of historical Japanese expression, intertwining with her own life, Someya vividly depicts the cycle of life and death in nature through her keen sensibility and the hazy, gradient colors on her canvases, capturing the blink of nature's cycle.
Schedule | Mar 1 (Fri) 2024-Mar 23 (Sat) 2024 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Mar 1 (Fri) 2024 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://tomiokoyamagallery.com/exhibitions/someya2024/ | ||||
| Venue | Tomio Koyama Gallery Tennoz http://tomiokoyamagallery.com/en/ | ||||
| Location | 4F Terrada Art Complex Ⅰ, 1-33-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B at Tennozu Isle Station on the Rinkai line, 10 minute walk from the South exit of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail line, 9 minute walk from the North exit of Shimbamba Station on the Keikyu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6459-4030 | ||||
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