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"fleeting dreams of paintings"
Kota Hirakawa

First installment:June 21 - July 6, 2014
Second installment:July 12 - July 27, 2014
12:00-19:00
closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Kota Hirakawa

Bambinart Gallery is pleased to present "fleeting dreams of paintings", a solo-exhibit by Kota Hirakawa.

After graduating from the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013 and winning the Golden Prize in the Golden Competition (2012), Kota Hirakawa (born in Saitama, 1987) won the Judge's special prize at the Sonpo Japan Art exhibition FACE 2013 and the Mitsubishi Estate Prize at the Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi (2013). As a prominent young artist, he also appeared in the “Why not live for Art? II – 9 collectors reveal their treasures,” at Tokyo Opera City and in the VOCA 2014 exhibition at the Ueno Mori Art Museum.

Hirakawa has exhibited his work widely including an exhibition of illustrations at the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels (Saitama) and his “Art is climbing the mountain” exhibition at the Nichiren-Shu Daihonzan Seichoji and the Syakaji Shrines (in Chiba). In these exhibitions he dealt with the relationship between history and society. In 2014, in addition to his all-in-black “Trinite” series that reproduced the “eternal loan” war paintings by artists such as Léonard Tsugoharu Fujita and Saburo Miyamoto, Hirakawa also produced the “Where is NIRAIKANAI” series during a stay of residence in Okinawa. By taking on and confronting both the history of modern western art, as well as history itself, Hirakawa tries to grasp the essence of war and art history.

This exhibition is split into two installments. In the first installment, we will exhibit mainly works from the “Where is NIRAIKANAI” series that Hirakawa produced during his residency in Okinawa and the “a fleeting dream of paintings” series from his residency in Enoshima. Both these series, through his residencies, express the beauty we feel from memories of places and our everyday environment.

The second installment features the “remembered and recorded memories” series, painted in only black paint, utilising the clock as a medium to express history that cannot be told and history that tries to be forgotten. While the sound of the all-in-black clock, as an installation that fills the room, chisels out time, visitors will be ensconced within a space of remembered and recorded memories.




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"fleeting dreams of paintings"
Kota Hirakawa

First installment:June 21 - July 6, 2014
Second installment:July 12 - July 27, 2014
12:00-19:00
closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
Venue:Bambinart Gallery
B107 3331 Arts Chiyoda