Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo presents a solo exhibition of new work by Toru Kuwakubo.This exhibition features Kuwakubo’s “Calendar Series”, in which he depicts the respective lives of the painters he respects: Picasso, Vermeer, Ensor, Cezanne, Seurat, and Gogh. This exhibition features six paintings and six drawings form the Calendar series. He paints these painters’ studios as imaginary, spectacular spaces of alternate dimension through manner of his own interpretation. Such works serve as an ultimate homage that attempt to re-experience these painters’ practices and ideas.Kuwakubo began working on this series in 2014, commencing with Munch who he considers as his favorite artist. This work, however, did not meet its completion, as he had been unable to fully develop his concepts. Thereafter he attempted to depict Ensor, proceeding to allocate each painter a month: April to Ensor, as he associated the impressions of Ensor’s pink colors to cherry blossoms. Cezanne’s work had seemed to evoke the winds of May, while Gogh conveyed feelings of the sea on the summer nights in August. Kurakubo allocated March to Vermeer as he had started working on the painter in March. Piccaso was selected to become a face of the calendar and hence was given January. Seurat got the early summer month of July.The exhibition is on view through February 17, 2018 at Tomio Koyama Gallery, complex665 2F, 6-5-24, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-0032,Japan.For details, visit: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/tomio-koyama-gallery/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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