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Yuriko Wada "Chotto Hot Hyotto"

March 23 - April 15, 2012
12:00-19:00
closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Yuriko Wada

Bambinart Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Yuriko Wada from March 23 to April 15, 2012.

Wada won the Turner Award in 2010 as a student at Tokyo Art University, and is scheduled to continue her studies in Germany once she finishes her master’s program under the tutelage of artist O-Jun at the same school. This exhibition consists of her recent works and also includes large-scale paintings on size-100 canvases.

Wada is interested in the mysteries of the universe, deconstructing its components and reconfiguring them like LEGO blocks, providing a different way to relate to reality. This process keeps Wada playful in her style: even in this exhibition, she experiments by shoving her work inside a PVC pipe, drawing on a wooden panel, and after experimentations, goes back to her usual painting style. Playfully quizzical, the title may or may not provide the key into Wada’s universe. We hope you will enjoy Wada’s wonder world exhibited at our gallery.


A painting shouldn’t be something that could be explained. Even the best movies are considered the best not only because of their stories but also because of non-verbal components, more felt and less “said”. The universe we exist in is also filled with unexplainable mysteries. Bearing that in mind, I decided to express images, shapes, and colors as they came to me, instead of beginning with concepts like I was use to doing before. So, I didn’t draw these works in a silent room. I traveled, experienced various things at work, talked with house wives in my neighborhood, and interacted with lots of people. I picked up all sorts of stimuli varying from pop music to news to variety TV programs, mixing them together in a chaotic pot of color and reimagining them as images. And now I strongly believe that we most enjoy thinking about things that could not be explained. ―Yuriko Wada

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Yuriko Wada "Chotto Hot Hyotto"

March 23 - April 15, 2012
12:00-19:00
closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
Venue:Bambinart Gallery
B107 3331 Arts Chiyoda