MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo, Japan) and ROH (Jakarta, Indonesia) are pleased to announce our jointly produced exhibition, Let’s See レッツ・シー , to be presented at ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, Singapore. Offering a cross-section of contemporary Japanese painting, Let’s See レッツ・シー simultaneously proposes a model of collaboration between galleries within Asia, with an example of the potential for commercial gallery spaces to utilize, cooperatively, their resources and flexibility towards the presentation of exhibitions of cultural significance.
Let’s See レッツ・シー features the work of 18 individual painters and one collective of 2 artists (Twin Boat Songs; Yu Nishimura + Kazuyuki Takezaki). The exhibition takes as foundational the work of Tokyo-based Hiroshi Sugito (b. 1970) and spans multiple generations with the youngest artists, Emi Mizukami (b. 1992) and Nanami Hori (b. 1995), both being born in the 1990s. Let’s See レッツ・シー follows by one decade the groundbreaking exhibition The Way of Painting organized by curator Motoaki Hori for Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2014.
The exhibition will include a site-specific work by artist Shimon Minamikawa, a series of artist talks, and a catalogue with essays by both independent curator Motoaki Hori as well as Gabriel Ritter, Director of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Art, Design & Architecture Museum and Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture.
Let’s See レッツ・シー reflects upon the enduring legacy and memory of Kazuyuki Takezaki (b. 1976-2024).
Let’s See レッツ・シー
Kei Imazu 今津景
Nanami Hori 掘ななみ
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Shimon Minamikawa 南川史門
Ulala Imai 今井麗
Hiroshi Sugito 杉戸洋
Masanori Tomita 富田 正宣
Yu Nishimura 西村有
Yui Yaegashi 八重樫ゆい
Emi Mizukami 水上恵美
Daisuke Fukunaga 福永大輔
Reina Sugihara 杉原玲那
Kazuyuki Takezaki 竹﨑和征
Shunsuke Imai 今井俊介
Teppei Soutome 五月女哲平
Maki Katayama 片山真妃
Ken Sasaki 佐々木健
Toshiyuki Konishi 小西紀行
Twin Boat Songs 並行小舟唄
Curated by Jeffrey Rosen, Misako Rosen & Jun Tirtadji
Essays by Motoaki Hori & Gabriel Ritter
28 September - 27 October 2024
ArtSpace @ HeluTrans
39 Keppel Road, #01-05 Distripark
Singapore 089065
Program
Artist Talk
with Hiroshi Sugito, Nanami Hori & Emi Mizukami, moderated by Misako Rosen
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 15:00 – 16:00
ArtSpace @ Helutrans, Singapore
Public Opening
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 17:00 – 19:00
ArtSpace @ Helutrans, Singapore
Exhibition Tour
with Artists and Gallerists
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 15:00 – 16:00
ArtSpace @ Helutrans, Singapore
With special thanks to cooperating colleagues: Tomio Koyama Gallery, ANOMALY, KAYOKOYUKI, 4649, XYZ Collective, ShugoArts, Hagiwara Projects, Nonaka-Hill & Crèvecœur.
ARTISTS
Born 1981, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Formerly focused on a painted anthropomorphism – using a suggested inner-life of objects as a motif through which to explore a hazy form of representation, Daisuke Fukunaga has in recent years turned his gaze towards people – often in a form of repose; sleeping or dreaming as a metaphor for the act of painting.
Fukunaga received his Bachelor of Arts from the Department of Oil Painting at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan in 2004. A number of selected solo exhibitions are Self Meditation at High Art, Paris, France (2024); Fertile Break at Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2022); Beautiful Work at Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (2022); Labor at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2020); and Documenting Senses — From Cats’ Eyes, Not Dogs — at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2015). Fukunaga has been a part of various group exhibitions in Japan and abroad, among them are Blue Wind at High Art, Arles, France (2023); Natsuyasumi: In the Beginning Was Love at Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (2021); Fifteen Painters at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A. (2021); island at Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Kanagawa, Japan (2019); Cool Invitations 4 at XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan (2017); and The Way of Painting at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2014).