EXHIBITIONS
MAKOTO HONDA
Gary Give Me
LURF GALLERY (LURF GALLERY) is pleased to present "Gary Give me," a solo exhibition by Makoto Honda on the 2nd floor. In Honda's works, fragments of sudden emotional swings and memories quietly appear as motifs and signs. It is tempting to find some kind of narrative in them, but there is no clear plot. Viewers will receive the works in their own context, overlapping the images that emerge from Honda's memories and senses with their own memories and senses.
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AIKA NAGANO
(a house) two doors away in summer
LURF GALLERY 1F is pleased to present "Summer Next Door," a solo exhibition of Aika Nagano. Aika Nagano has been pursuing an expression in which she depicts the space that has been regarded as "blank space" in Japanese painting as the "ground" of the picture plane by capturing it as light. In her paintings, she depicts not only the subject of the painting, but also the air and flickering light that surrounds it, as a delicate layer of light, as a sign that has no form.
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shimpei arima / oscar oiwa / isshin tanisaki / iori nagashima / shimpei yoshida
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 imaginary story of social and environmental issues from their 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 carved in the annual rings of trees to the viewer's imagination through the texture of the materials. The exhibition also includes works that juxtapose the experiences of others and oneself through the medium of photographic memory, and paintings that explore the temporality and position of existence between things and people through everyday memories. In each work, memory is not reproduced as the past, but is reconstructed through imagination and emerges as a new image. In this exhibition, the different distances and transformations at the intersection of memory and imagination coexist in the same space as five different expressions.
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