Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is pleased to present a group exhibition with works by Kenjiro Okazaki, Chinoko Sakamoto, Harm van den Dorpel, and Goro Murayama opening this Saturday, July 16th.

This group exhibition presents an opportunity to consider the natural process of artistic production in which there are no distinctions between the virtual and the real. The abstract is conceptualized not merely as an expressive form but rather primarily as an omnipresent element of nature that exists irregardless of human perception. We hope that visitors will experience this notion of abstraction as a guiding force in the evocation of history and the present in these works by Okazaki, van den Dorpel, Sakamoto, and Murayama.

Kenjiro Okazaki, Harm van den Dorpel, Goro Murayama, Chinoko Sakamoto

Cooperation:  Upstream Gallery

Exhibition Period: Saturday, July 16, 2022 – Saturday, September 10, 2022

Open: Tue – Sat 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Closed: Sun, Mon and National Holidays

*Summer Holiday: August 9-16

Takuro Someya Contemporary Art

TSCA 3F TERRADA Art Complex 1-33-10 Higashi-Shinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 140-0002 Japan

TEL 03-6712-9887 ｜FAX 03-4578-0318 ｜E-MAIL: gallery@tsca.jp

 Artist Profile

Kenjiro Okazaki is active in a diverse range of creative practices including painting, sculpture, and landscape architecture, as well as art criticism and education. In this exhibition, we present a selection of two paintings: the first, an early work from his Zero Thumbnail series, and the second, a work from the TOPICA PICTUS series made in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic.

Harm van den Dorpel is an artist based in Berlin known for his work with various media including sculpture, installation, works on paper, and software. His work was exhibited in Japan for the first time last year at a collaborative booth between TSCA and Upstream Gallery (the Netherlands) at Art Collaboration Kyoto. van den Dorpel is a pioneer among artists working with NFTs and runs his own online gallery. This exhibition will feature his first NFT work shown in Japan in addition to his representative print works.

Chinoko Sakamoto’s practice centers on three-dimensional ceramic expressions with experiments in techniques of handbuilding, glazing, and firing. Sakamoto studied in London and is now based in Nagasaki prefecture. This exhibition, her first at TSCA, features her most recent works at the largest scale she has worked in thus far.

Goro Murayama works in various media including drawing, painting, and knitting, using computer simulations as his motif. His works are produced within a set of recursive rules based on biological processes and patterns such as evolution, learning, and self-organization. In this exhibition, we present a series of drawings titled Disruptor and Regenerative Drawing.