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 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
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.
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).
Copyright belongs to the respective Artists
Text by Motoaki Hori and Gabriel Ritter
Courtesy of The Artists, MISAKO & ROSEN, and ROH