Hatsune Suzuki solo exhibition "Scooping a blink"
shimokitazawaartsApril 14 - 30, 2023
1-7pm
Closed on Mon, Tue and Wed.
*Opening reception：April 14, 6-8pm
Anyone can participate in the opening reception.
Shimokitazawa Arts is pleased to announce to have Hatsune Suzuki solo exhibition "Scooping a blink".
She was born in Kanagawa pref. Japan and is currently in DFA of Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Mural Painting, Japan.
She grow Jerusalem artichoke and makes raw materials for paper from it and collect raw materials such as mortar and lime from riverbed sand in the process of rice cultivation and oyster shell herself. Such as sparkling minerals on the riverbed, plant stems in paper and an image that changes with the power and the heat of the soldering iron, her eyes never miss a momentary sparkle of nature. As she put herself in nature and creates artworks over years while responding to the reaction of nature, the moment that leads to eternity is enclosed in Hatsune Suzuki's artwork.
Suzuki's paintings, which incorporate techniques from the field of mural, have mysterious charms that combine a tension and generosity like prehistoric cave paintings and Japanese tumulus murals drawn freely with awe of nature and invisible forces.
Artist Statement
I try to observe and touch nature.
When I see what passes by and the flow bathes me,
everything that keep moving
shows something like a fluttering hem.
Blinking continues gently and slowly.
...............................................................
From the series of actions surrounding the cultivation of plants,
I obtain the materials, process them and use them in my artworks.
Jerusalem artichokes planted in a small field become paper and seashells from the sea become lime.
Lime, due to its basicity, is used for boiling in making paper and soil pH adjustment.
I draw on paper by lime, sand, soil and water kneaded.
As the paper burns, the image appears.
The lime reacts with carbon dioxide and hardens to enclose the painting.
Invisible movements between various actions support the painting on the surface.
When I move hands to see the painting that appears and
it takes shape at the end of the metamorphosis of plants and shells,
I feel that the action in between passes through me also.
From time to time I appear and disappear and think I am in the surroundings.
Hatsune Suzuki
Her current target as an artist is " to create in a way that accompanies the actual building as I corporate techniques learned from the field of mural paintings into my work".
Born in Kanagawa pref. Japan.
2018 BFA of Oil painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2020 MFA in Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Mural Painting, Tokyo, Japan
2023 current DFA in Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Mural Painting, Tokyo, Japan
Exhitibition
2022
"ao" AKIBATAMABI21, Tokyo
"Scholarship Student Exhibition" The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo
2021
" Tsukuba Award of Art" Studio'S, Ibaraki pref. & Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store, Tokyo
2020
TOKYO mizumachi Mural WISE OWL HOSTELS River tokyo, Tokyo
Solo exhibition " I can see it when I breathe." Gallery Binosha, Tokyo
2017
Atami Art Week 2017 , Atami City, Shizuoka pref. Japan
Award
2022
The Sato Museum of Art, Purchase Award, Tokyo
2021
Tsukuba Award of Art, Award of Excellence, Ibaraki pref. & Tokyo
Scholarship
2022
Japan Arts Foundation
2021
The 31th. Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation
