Group Exhibition IMAGINATION
LURF GALLERY is pleased to present "IMAGINATION," a group exhibition by Shinpei Arima, Oscar Oiwa, Isshin Tanizaki, Iori Nagashima, and Shinpei Yoshida, who are active both in Japan and abroad.
The five artists participating in this exhibition create works of art with memory as their starting point.
The paintings that construct an imaginative narrative of social and environmental issues from one's own memories, the imagination that opens from the memories of nature and landscape to the starting point of life, and the expression that connects the memories of time and nature engraved in the annual rings of trees to the viewer's imagination through the texture of the materials.
The exhibition will also include works that juxtapose the experiences of others and oneself through the medium of photographic memory, as well as paintings that explore the temporality and position of existence between objects and people through everyday memories.
Each work does not reproduce memories as the past, but reconstructs them through imagination and stands as a new image.
In this exhibition, these different distances and transformations, where memory and imagination intersect, coexist in the same space as five different expressions.
LURF GALLERY will exhibit at ART FAIR TOKYO 2026, which will be held from March 13 (Fri.) to 15 (Sun.), 2026, and will display works by the artists participating in this exhibition.
EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
Group Exhibition "IMAGINATION
| Meeting Period | Friday, March 13 - Sunday, April 5, 2026 |
| Venue | LURF GALLERY 1F & 2F |
| Hours | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Address | Roob1, 28-13 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033, Japan |
| cooperation | ART FRONT GALLERY, mona art office |
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ART WORKS
Shimpei ARIMA
sugicodama, 2019, Japanese cedar (approx. 160 years old), H49 x W130 x L77 cm
*Reference works
Oscar OIWA
Pine River, 2015, oil on canvas, H138×W178cm
Photo : Hiroshi Noguchi
Isshin TANISAKI
Calm, 2026, oil on canvas, H145.5 x W145.5cm
Iori NAGASHIMA
Books and Orange, 2026, oil on canvas, H45.5×53cm
Simpei YOSHIDA
My Wife, 2026, oil on canvas, H41 x W31.8cm
ARTISTS
Shimpei ARIMA
Shinpei Arima
1979 Born in Saga Prefecture, currently lives in Oita City, Oita Prefecture
2004 Completed Master's program in Art Education, Graduate School of Education, Oita University
He has been active in art since he was a graduate student. He has created sculptures using Japanese cedar, a tree found throughout Japan.
His representative work, named "Sugikodama," is created by carving out cedar trees and confronting the presence of a human heart within them. He has exhibited his works in Japan and abroad, and installed his works in cultural facilities.
Oscar OIWA
Oiwa Oscar
1965 Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil
1989 Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo
1991 Moved to Tokyo
2002 Moved to New York
Currently based in New York City
I am an artist living in the "world in between". Born in Sao Paulo to Japanese parents, I now work internationally. My practice emerges from the experience of moving between cultures, landscapes, and psychological states. I treat the landscape as a living and unstable space, where the city, nature...
Isshin TANISAKI
Isshin Tanizaki
1974 Born in Fukuoka, Japan
Isshin Tanizaki's theme is "the energy and circulation of life," and he depicts vortexes that combine colors and textures to symbolize the movement of energy, expressing the energy of life.
Since the beginning of 2000, Tanizaki has been presenting natural landscapes created by the accumulation of fine dots, which is also the origin of the vortex. By positioning the vortex as the root of all things in the universe, and by expressing the world of the vortex in a minimalist manner, Tanizaki examines our lives caused by the movement of energy, and the origins of the everyday world and the universe.
Iori NAGASHIMA
Iori Nagashima
1997 Born in Osaka
2020 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting
Iori Nagashima paints everyday. Her main subjects are people, still life, and landscapes, and she captures on canvas the quiet moments that flow through her mind. While following the shapes and light of her subjects, she reveals the psychological distance from her subjects, the temporal distance from her memories, and the relationship with the viewer through the accumulation of brushstrokes that emerge from her body and the decision to paint or not to paint.
Simpei YOSHIDA
Shinpei Yoshida
1992 Born in Nara
2014 Graduated from Kyoto University of Arts (former Kyoto University of Art and Design), Western painting course
He currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan, and his main medium is painting. She began her portrait series after an experience related to the death of her grandmother, and participated in an artist-in-residence program at FRISE, an artist-run space in Hamburg, Germany, in 2018. Touching on the subjects of ”presence and absence” and "memory and forgetting," she questions the danger and meaning of the incomprehensible, the forgotten, and the invisible in this age when it seems as if all that is "visible" can be shared with others. The film questions the danger and meaning of things that are difficult to understand, things that have been forgotten, and things that are invisible.