The party Kataguchi Minami, Goto Mizuho, Takagi Iloca, Yuzuki
shimokitazawaarts December 25, 2024 - January 12, 2025
1-7 pm
Closed on Dec.30 - Jan. 7
Katakuchi Minami carefully arranges the antiques and miscellaneous goods she has collected to express their divinity.
Goto Mizuho uses everyday gestures, tools, and fruits as motifs to express the relationship between war, discrimination, and the body.
Takagi Iloca creates painted tableware that commemorates familiar landscapes and artifacts, such as Western-style plates.
Yuzuki creates works focusing on those who have been left out of the gears of society.
A party for each of the four artists will be held at this exhibition.
Kataguchi Minami
Born in Tokyo.
2020 Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Ueno High School
2024 Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Western Painting
Exhibition
2024
Group exhibition "Roses and stars" haco -art brewing gallery-, Tokyo
Group exhibition "Immoral boy 2024" SUNABA gallery-, Osaka
2023
Group exhibition "Skew position" Art Space Kimura ASK, Tokyo
11th. Maeda Kanji Award Exhibition, Tokyo and Tottori
Group exhibition "Immoral boy 2023" SUNABA gallery-, Osaka
2022
Group exhibition "Upside down world II" SUNABA gallery-, Osaka
2021
Group exhibition "Hello 2021 summer, Newcomers welcome" SUNABA gallery-, Osaka
Award
2024 Joshibi University of Art and Design Art Museum Encouragement Award, Kato Yoshiyuki Memorial Award
Artist Statement
I carefully arrange the antiques and miscellaneous goods I have collected so far and paint them. These paintings, which contain a sense of personal faith, are more like religious paintings than still life paintings. I create altars for myself - like Shinto altars, Buddhist altars, and amulets - with the idea of finding things to love, cherishing them, and not giving up on beautiful things in everyday life. I do not want still life to remain as a mere allegory or metaphor, so I pursue religious spirituality to make it a unique form of painting.
Goto Mizuho
Born in Tokyo, 2001.
2023 Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Western Painting
Currently enrolled in the Master's Program in Western Paintings, Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Joshibi University of Art and Design (while on a leave of absence)
Favorite artists：
Balthus, Felix Vallotton, Wilhelm Sasnal, Luc Tuymans
Exhibition
2024
Solo exhibition "Picking up avocados, holding books" Shimokitazawaarts, Tokyo
Group exhibition "Prologue XV 2024" GALLERY ART POINT, Tokyo
Group exhibition "Snapshot" ARTDYNE, Tokyo
Group exhibition "Palestine Warm House” NAMNAM SPACE, Kanagawa
Group exhibition "Group Show” MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo
2023
IDEMITSU Art Award 2023, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Group exhibition "Coil” art space kimura ASK?P, Tokyo
Kanagawa Prefecture Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa
Group exhibition "swim to.....” Harmony Hall Zama, Kanagawa
Group exhibition "EPIC PAINTERS VOL.12” THE blank GALLERY, Tokyo
duo exhibition "In a distant memory, I captured a strange profile" AYUMI GALLERY, Tokyo
46th Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities in Tokyo, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2022
Kanagawa Prefecture Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa
Award
2023
IDEMITSU Art Award 2023, Special student award
58th Kanagawa Prefecture Art Exhibition, Kamiyama Foundation Award
2022
57th Kanagawa Prefecture Art Exhibition, Selected work
Artist Statement
I use everyday gestures, tools, and fruits as motifs to depict how the body is strongly affected by large-scale violence such as war and discrimination. British politicians and the Nazi Foreign Minister were invited to an official luncheon held in London on March 12, 1938. When Germany began preparing to invade Austria, they were eating coffee, wine, and cake.
Germany annexed Austria, and in Vienna, Jews were forced to clean the streets with buckets and brushes, amidst cheering crowds, colorful confetti, and girls waving flags.
About the unending massacre in Gaza and the flowers that are falling at our feet.
Takagi Iloca
Born in Tokyo, 1997.
2021 entered Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Major in Oil Painting
Selected group exhibition
2024
"FIRST CONTACT" REIJINSHA GALLERY, Tokyo
"INTRO 1" Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
2023
"Little Ueno" ABAB UENO, Tokyo
Artist Statement
I think any everyday item you have around you is fine as long as you can use it, but I'm drawn to decorative items. When I had the opportunity to make my own tableware, I thought of using a white plate with blue paintings to decorate the plate, and the design reminded me of a European climate, a countryside scene, or a log house. As I have never been overseas, this is an unfamiliar landscape to me, but I think it depicts something familiar to Europeans, so I decided to draw the area near my parents' house where I currently live. I made it. It is interesting that modern motifs are depicted on what at first glance looks like old folk art, and that familiar objects are depicted on familiar objects.
Yuzuki
Born in Japan, 2004.
2023 entered Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Major in Oil Painting
Group exhibition
2024
"intersection 2"（biscuit gallery）, Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore, Tokyo
"Ryota Miyayama + Yuzuki Duo Exhibition " biscuit gallery, Tokyo
"grid next" biscuit gallery, Tokyo
"Hole" GALLERY33, Tokyo
ART EXPO NEW YORK（GALLERY AZUR）, Pier 36, New York
2023
"RGB SKY" M.A.D.S. ART GALLERY, Milan
Media
2024 Syogakukan "steenz" online
Artist Statement
My works focus on those who have been pretending not to hear, pretend not to see, or even exist in the gears of society.
