Let’s See レッツ・シー ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, Singapore28 September - 27 October 2024
ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー

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.

ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー
ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー

 

 

 

 

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.

ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー
ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー
ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー

 

 

 

 

The exhibition includes 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
Nanami Hori
Masaya Chiba
Shimon Minamikawa
Ulala Imai
Hiroshi Sugito
Masanori Tomita
Yu Nishimura
Yui Yaegashi
Emi Mizukami
Daisuke Fukunaga
Reina Sugihara
Kazuyuki Takezaki
Shunsuke Imai 
Teppei Soutome
Maki Katayama
Ken Sasaki
Toshiyuki Konishi
Twin Boat Songs
 
Curated by Jeffrey Rosen, Misako Rosen & Jun Tirtadji 
Essays by Motoaki Hori & Gabriel Ritter

ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー
ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー
ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー
ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー

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 – 20:00  
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.

ROH Let’s See レッツ・シー

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).

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Texts by Motoaki Hori and Gabriel Ritter

Courtesy of The Artists, MISAKO & ROSEN, and ROH