exhibition

“I have continued to focus on how to express in my paintings the experiences I have felt with my five senses, such as the air, temperature, smells, and sounds I have felt on my skin when I went to various places for research.

In recent years, my major theme has been how to pack various sensations into a visual medium such as painting and complete it. It is difficult to turn each different experience I felt at a specific time in a real place into a work of art, but I think that this problem has been solved through repeated trial and error in my daily work.

Although I am still inexperienced, I would like to incorporate the rich experiences I have had on-site into my paintings. Please come and see this work, which could be considered the culmination of my recent works.” (Soichiro Ishikawa)

The artist is from Yamagata Prefecture. He has a strong impression of the “sea” that he has been familiar with since he was a child as a primal landscape, and continues to paint those landscapes. He creates his works by researching actual places, and he says that he often paints the coast of Japan Sea, which he has been familiar with since childhood. In this exhibition, he will expand the areas he has researched and present works centered on his hometown of Yamagata, Hokkaido, and Toyama. Additionally, previously painted scenes of Okinawa and Tokyo Bay will also appear.

Furthermore, “Summer seas are well-maintained, crowded with people and somehow seem artificial and fake, whereas I want to paint the untouched, raw seas of other seasons,” he said　and with a desire to pursue and paint beauty in any landscape situation, he tried to depict not only the difference of locations, but also the seasons and weather, which change appearance from time to time, and painted rainy and snowy landscapes. These are landscapes in situations that come into existence only for that moment. We hope that this exhibition will lead you to an encounter with a fateful landscape. Please take this opportunity to come and see his works.