Tsuyoshi Higashijima「 Iʼ m back again」

2022.10.30(sun) ー 12.25(sun)「He Knows Me」2021

oil on canvas

We will hold Tsuyoshi Higashijimaʼ s solo exhibition “Tsuyoshi Higashijima / Iʼ m back again” here at rin art association.
Higashijima's scale is unmatched by Japanese artists, and he has continued to create large-scale works that overwhelm viewers. By
liberating viewer's senses from the framework of everyday life, he presents and redeﬁnes the origins of bodily sensations andimages. In this exhibition, in addition to the approach to the painting that he has worked on so far, he will present ceramic
sculpture works using clay as a new material.
The concept of ceramic sculptures began three years ago, and he has completed about 120 pieces including prototypes until today.
During this time, he has also completed a new series of paintings based on the theme of "ambiguous virtue," which he has
consistently pursued. They are related to each other and can be freely move within 2D and 3D. However, for Higashijima, thisunique attempt is nothing more than a turning point toward the future, and it is always in the middle of a scrap and build process.
This time, we will have an exhibition that makes use of all three ﬂoors of the gallery. Each ﬂoor is constructed with our desire tocapture the moment of the production site. The present of painting that he came back. We hope you will be able to witness theexhibition and think deeply about each life.

Paintings and ceramic sculptures speak to us as something alive.
I'm back again. I came back to the place I used to know. The place is diﬀerent. I'm diﬀerent.
re-working, re-thinking. I can look again. I can think again.
Spiraling life and compassion sustain through the contradictory ideas of solitude and dialogue.
Tsuyoshi Higashijima
Tsuyoshi Higashijima
Born in Saga, 1960. Currently lives in Okayama city. In 1986, completed graduate study at University of Tsukuba for Master's Program in Art andDesign, Western Style Painting (Major: Fine Art). In 1988-90, studied at Royal College of Art for Faculty of Fine Art, Master's Degree Course in Painting.
His main solo exhibitions are, in 2000 "Recent Works 25 Tsuyoshi Higashijima" at The National Museum of Art (Osaka) , in 2007 "Tsuyoshi Higashijima
Selected Works 1988-2006” at Okayama Prefectural Museum (Okayama), in 2008 "Tsuyoshi Higashijima - E-PICTURE” at Aomori Contemporary Art
Centre (Aomori), in 2018 “guest room 003 Tsuyoshi Higashijima-Dual” at Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art (Fukuoka), and in 2015 "Tsuyoshi
Higashijima - Scar and Stream” at Ohara Museum of Art Yurinsou(Okayama). His main group exhibitions are, in 1995 ” Allegory of Seeing 1995: Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan” at Sezon Museum ofArt (Tokyo), "Mito Annual '95 : Thinking of the picture-Receptacle and Measure" Art Tower Mito, (Ibaraki), in 1996 "The Vision of Contemporary Art(VOCAʼ 96)" at Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo), in 2001, "SENRITSUMIRAI−FUTURO ANTERIORE Arte attuale dal Giappone” at Centro per l'Arte
Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, (Prato, Italy), in 2010 "Primary Field II” at The Museum of Modern Art Hayama (Kanagawa) and "Kazuhiro Nomura /Tsuyoshi Higashijima Miru-koto wo Kanngaeru"at Iwaki City Art Museum (Fukushima).
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