What is CONARTE?
The name means "with art" in Spanish, and 410Gallery has selected artists who are active in the art market. This exhibition aims to bring the world of art closer to art fans, artists, and 410Gallery.
The joy of encountering and purchasing the artworks. The excitement of viewing them up close.
CONARTE #1
This is the first time that we have held an exhibition featuring five contemporary artists from Japan and abroad who are active in art museums.
The exhibition will feature works by award-winning artists selected by 410 Gallery. Approximately 30 pieces of artwork that are easy to display will be on display.
Artist
・Kenji Moroi
・ Yasuhiro Tsutsumi
・Takashi Ito
・Takechakoff
・Mitsutoshi Sunahara
・Kenji Moroi (casting)
【profile】
Born in Saga on March 29, 1988
2006 Graduated from Saga Kita High School General Arts Course
2010 Graduated from the Sculpture Course of the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts, Sojo University
2012 Graduated from the Master's Program in Fine Arts at the Graduate School of Art and Design at Sojo University
2012: Joined Katsuno Laboratory as a research student at Sojo University for one year
In 2013, as a sculptor, he installed the outdoor bronze sculpture "Wave Temptation" at the Okada Museum of Art.
In 2021, he installed and donated the outdoor bronze sculpture "The Heart is on a Journey" to the Saga Prefectural Library.
Since then, up until the present day in 2023, he has been active as a sculptor, primarily drawing inspiration from nature, creating works that explore the intersection of ideals and reality in his work.
[Major awards received]
Selected for the 40th, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th Nitten Exhibitions, and selected as a special winner in the 10th Nitten Exhibition
Nitten Association Members
・Yasuhiro Tsutsumi (oil painting)
[Concept of the work]
Layer and scrape the colors.
Each time you repeat this simple action, a new view emerges.
It is a unique trace that exists on the flowing axis of time.
These traces are the nature of things, where the events occurring before our eyes will one day disappear.
Its inherent transience takes on a beautiful mass and lands on the canvas.
[Recent solo exhibitions]
2021-2024 "salvage" Sky Color (Fukuoka)
"Hushed Voices" Hanao Coffee (Fukuoka) "The Road Not Taken" Gallery Ansei (Fukuoka)
"Talk" ZUKI solo exhibition (Hyogo) "Corner Of Memories" Color of the Sky (Fukuoka)
"It's a habit. It's always been like this, and it always will be." Hanao Coffee (Fukuoka)
・Lee Kooha (Calligrapher)
The flow of time and the path of running
-Lee Kuha-
- Verdigris -
Can I express myself through a painting? It is a question of whether I can paint an internal self-portrait, not an external one. I believe that mutual understanding and integration of people from various fields is an urgent issue these days. It is true that the best way to solve the problem is harmony and conversation. But the most important thing is to confirm "who I am". Before expressing our position in relation to the nation, we must ask "where I am now". To achieve mutual understanding and integration in this country, we must communicate with our inner selves. It is because we enter into deep and wide relationships only after we have regained our tranquility. This artist is trying to give form to his paintings in the most human way. It is an attempt to fill the void of the "self" that he did not know or wanted to know. What does this painting mean, which uses the working tool of "time" as a means to find "self"? In what form can his essence and his "self" as a painting confront each other? As a way to find "self", he tries to find the answer in his name "Turtle (龟) and Water (河)". It appeared vividly in his artistic world. While finding a motif from his own name, he tries to get closer to "himself" by grafting painting techniques and worldviews onto it. In other words, for him, the act of painting is a process of "self-discovery," and the finishing process is to reveal the self. That is why we need to continue to follow the "dots" and "lines" of the brush with childlike innocence. He believes that all the shapes created in the process of painting from the motifs of "turtle" and "water" are the source of "self." Why does he believe that the shapes made of "dots" and "lines" are another "self"? He believes that it is not just the stroke of the brush, but the flow of time, the traces of running, so it doesn't matter if it's a turtle or a painter... and those traces. It is the time he has lived and will continue to live. Therefore, an artist cannot exist unless time passes. I think he must owe this work time. There is no doubt that this work, which he continued to run through and endure the flow of time, is a process toward another door of communication beyond "himself."
・Takechakoff (illustration)
[Thoughts on the work]
It's a strange scene, but it makes me feel nostalgic.
Even though it's your first time, you get the illusion that you've had the same experience before.
My memories are very vague and uncertain.
The things that we were impressed with and found beautiful may fade away.
Things that you avoided because they were boring may shine,
The scenes in my memory change shape.
I create my works by letting my thoughts swim among such memories.
I would be happy if the film serves as an opportunity to open a "window into memory" for those who watch it.
・Takashi Ito (wood carving)
[Thoughts on the work]
Ever since I was a child, I've had trouble expressing my feelings in words.
I feel like unless I said it out loud, other people would just see me as someone who doesn't think about anything.
Still, I feel like making things has helped me connect with other people and with society.
I create with the idea in mind that we all have words in our hearts, even if we don't put them into words.
[Major awards received]
1996-1998 Japan Craft Exhibition Selected
1998 Selected for the Asahi Contemporary Craft Exhibition
2023-2024 ART DECORATION 2023 410Galllery Award, BrainBrunn Art Award 2023 Grand Prize, 11th Dynamic Contemporary Artists Exhibition Grand Prize, Kankaku Exhibition #1 Kankaku Award, Independent Tokyo 2023 Kamiya Takahisa Award, 12th Dynamic Contemporary Artists Exhibition Special Award, 100 People 10 Selections
・Mitsutoshi Sunahara (acrylic)
[Thoughts on the work]
In my work, I have always considered the "poetic things" that emerge in the process of turning words into poetry to be the most important thing. Hoping to embed these "poetic things" in my work, I continue to paint landscapes of the "other side" where cities are layered together. The towns depicted in my work are towns "somewhere other than here," landscapes that are not on this side, but on the other side. And from these towns that can never be reached, a dim "light" rises. This is probably our dreams and hopes for the future. I want to paint such unreachable things on the "other side" through painting the city as a landscape.
