Iwasaki Kanaha, Suzuki Hatsune, Fukuhara Yuta "Look into the water"
shimokitazawaartsAt the end of summer, thinking of the waterfront.
August 16 - September 1, 2024
1-7 pm
closed on Mon., Tue. and Wed.
Shimokitazawa Arts is pleased to announce to have an exhibition "Look into the water" by Iwasaki Kanaha, Suzuki Hatsune and Fukuhara Yuta.
Iwasaki Kanaha draws inspiration from myths, novels, movies, etc. and creates the fantastical pictorial worlds in which creatures such as divine beasts live. Suzuki Hatsune uses materials collected from the fields she cultivates to create transparent and mysterious paintings using handmade Japanese paper, mortar, and other materials. Fukuhara Yuta paints the scenery he sees in his daily life with colors and brushstrokes that evoke nostalgia.
This exhibition features waterfront-themed works by three emerging artists who are steadily refining their own expressions.
Please come and visit our space, which is like a breath of freshener that will bring you cool at the end of summer. We sincerely look forward to your visit.
Iwasaki Kanaha
Born in Okinawa、 Japan, 1996.
2020 BFA of oil painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo
2022 MFA of painting, Tama Art University Graduate School, Tokyo
Selected exhibition
2023
solo exhibition "Surrounding things" OIL by Bijutsutecho, Tokyo
solo exhibition "motion・decoration" THE LOOP GALLERY, Tokyo
solo exhibition "Thinking of the Far Away" MATTER, Tokyo
solo exhibition "The moon is in the next room" KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo
2022
solo exhibition "Dream on 7legs" Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo
Artist Statement
With the themes of memory and stories, I create works while exploring what it means to draw and share it with others, as well as what the space of painting makes possible.
Suzuki Hatsune
Born in Kanagawa, 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
2024 current DFA in Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Mural Painting, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition
2024
Art fair "paper positions Berlin" Deutsche Telekom Berlin head office, Germany
2023
duo exhibition "A Breeze of Fresh Air" micheko galerie, Germany
Art fair "Positions Berlin" Tempelhof airport hangar, Germany
solo exhibition "Scooping a blink" Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo
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
solo exhibition " I can see it when I breathe." Gallery Binosha, Tokyo
TOKYO mizumachi Mural WISE OWL HOSTELS River tokyo, Tokyo
Artist statement
When I find a place with water, I often want to take a look.
This is because there are leaves hanging around it, and insects are wriggling at the bottom.
It feels like a different world is flowing under the water and on this side.
I use water in my creations.
I use the changes caused by the presence or absence of water to create materials or to draw pictures.
Water itself feels like a boundary.
You also notice that there are things moving around.
I have grass sprouts that have been soaked in water and have rotted roots.
There is a frog on the road that has dried up and has stopped moving.
When I think of the waterfront,
Remember how it feels when the soles of your feet are submerged.
That feeling of snapping.
Have we forgotten that this side of our skin also stores a lot of water?
Fukuhara Yuta
1997 Born in Tokyo
2020 BFA in Oil Painting, Musashino University of the Arts
Exhibition
solo exhibition
2024
"INPUT50000" BEAK585 GALLERY, Osaka, Japan
2022
“Third Time’s the Charm－Last garden The Movie－” GINZA SIX Art Wall Gallery, Tokyo
“The Garden Once More” MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo
“The garden” Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo
group exhibition etc.
2024
"This love hasn't even begun" NEWoMan YOKOHAMA, Kanagawa, Japan
"Hello, Art" DAFT about DRAFT FLAGSHIP STORE, Tokyo
"grid3" biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2023
"True colors" ARTDYNE, Tokyo
"biscuit gallery Christmas exhibition" biscuit gallery・biscuit gallery Karuizawa, Tokyo, Nagano, Japam
"GENE, Genes that transcend generations" gallery HANA, Tokyo
“Nine Colors”, Hankyu Umeda, Osaka, Japan
"grid2" biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2022
“Love&Peace Exhibition 2022”, SOGO Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
“Nine Colors”, Hankyu Umeda, Osaka, Japan
“ART IS…”, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo
2019
Duo Show “introduction”, S.Y.P Art Space, Tokyo
Award
2021 Shell Art Award 2021 Grand Prix
Artist statement
Lately, I've been finding it interesting how a particular place for me changes rapidly in the process of painting. It was supposed to depict the sea of Chiba, but it changed to look like Tennoz, then to the Metropolitan Expressway, and finally to Omotesando, a road with a blue pedestrian bridge.
I love the action of moving the entire painting and the resolution of my own ambiguous memories, and I want to move my brush as hard as I can. Maybe that's why I don't look at photos and draw much these days. It's fun when it's a specific place, a place that is nowhere else, and a place that is special to someone.
