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09 May 2024 [Fukuoka] Nami SHIBATA　Exhibition "Shadows and 凹凸" - May 18 (Sat) – June 2 (Mon) 2024 - see more: 　
《 Untitled 》 Oil on canvas 63.77×51.29in　2024

Nami Shibata Exhibition "Shadows and 凹凸"
May 18 (Sat) – June 2 (Mon) 2024
10:00am-6:00pm (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY FUKUOKA
The artist will be at the gallery on May 18,19, 20, and June 1,2

Since her last solo exhibition "resolution", Shibata has been painting portraits. The figures depicted in her paintings, although certainly in the form of a human, are not quite that of flesh and blood.
This is because, for Shibata, the act of painting is not an attempt to depict the subject itself, but to create "images and textures" from the accumulation of oil paint and brushstrokes.
In Shibata's hands, fictional characters from the world of theater, film, and fairy tales are stripped of any associated imagery and exist only as material paintings, like "dolls" on a small canvas or "shadows" on a large one.
For this exhibition, Shibata attempted portrait paintings of a new and larger scale. Stood before the "shadow" on the large canvas, we invite you to feel the colors, shapes, and unevenness of paint, as well as the artist's breath and brush strokes.
We sincerely look forward to you visiting our gallery.
Mizoe Art Gallery, Kazunobu Abe

Nami SHIBATA
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1985.
Graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Dazaifu High School.
Dropped out of Onomichi City University Graduate School of Fine Arts.
Selected for an award at TOKYO WONDER WALL 2009 (as well as 2010). Exhibited at 2010 Tokyo Wonder Site Emerging "ROOFS".
Selected for the Shell Art Award 2013.
Held Solo and group exhibitions in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kagawa, etc. Exhibited at Art Fair Tokyo in 2014, 2015, 2023, 2024.

Nami Shibata & Chisato Matsumoto Two-person Exhibition in Kyoto Tsutaya, to be held August 27-September 18, 2024.

　
《 Untitled 》 Oil on canvas 63.77×51.29in　2024

09 May 2024 [Fukuoka]Kenpei YUNDE Exhibition “A Happiness to Return to” － May. 11th (Sat) – May. 26th (Sun), 2024- see more: 　
《Apple Forest and Creatures Gathered at Pond on a Happy Morning》
oil on canvas, 145.5×112.0cm, 2024

Kenpei YUNDE Exhibition “A Happiness to Return to”
Date: May. 11th (Sat) – May. 26th (Sun), 2024
Business hours: 10:00am – 6:00pm (Open every day during the event)
Venue: Mizoe Art Gallery Tokyo
▶The artist will be at the gallery on : May. 11, 12, 18, 19 (*After 3:30pm on the 18th.)

-A Happiness to Return to-
People have always lived in pursuit of happiness.
Recently, I have been interested in the minds of people from the Jomon era, who stood on the earth, face to face with nature, living for more than 10,000 years without conflict. I feel we can relate to what they found beautiful. The people of the Jomon era created on the soil, but I paint on a canvas, starting from the soil.
Why do people create? Why do people paint? What makes people happy?
At the foot of it all is soil, which is why I paint from the soil. I believe, upon the continuation of this process, the essence of what is naturally there will sprout.
- Kenpei Yunde

In his paintings, Kenpei Yunde continues to pursue the expression of happiness. Through Yunde's paintings, people are made aware of the essentials that we all possess and are moved by them. This applies no matter the country, and we have been scattering the seeds of happiness little by little all over the world with Yunde's paintings. Through sharing the perspective and work of an artist who lives in the present, we hope as many people as possible can feel a slice of this happiness
- Kazunobu Abe, Mizoe Art Gallery

Gallery Talk Event
▶Date & Time: May 12th (Sun), 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
“The perspective and ideas of Kenpei Yunde”
The artist will talk about his thoughts on the Jomon era people and the roots of an artist’s creativity, introducing scenes in which he appears from the documentary program titled, “The discourse of gods (Kamunagara no Katarahi)” (directed by Shohei Shiozaki).

Yunde-style New Impressionist Live Drawing
▶Date & Time: May 19th (Sun), 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
During the exhibition, Yunde will create live drawings based on impressions of sketches he did in the Kamakura, Hakone, and Izu area. The sketches will be exhibited as well.

《Laughing Mt. Nijo》 oil on canvas, 53.0×45.5cm, 2024

Kenpei YUNDE／ Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1970. Completed Fine Arts Course, Osaka University of Arts in 1996. Received the Minister of Education Award in 2013.
Awarded Sompo Japan Fine Art Prize in the 28th Sompo Japan Outstanding Rising Artist Exhibition in 2009.

02 May 2024 [Fukuoka]Golden Week Thanksgiving - On Sale - April 27th (Sat) – May 12th (Sun), 2024 - see more: Henri MATISSE ≪Study for the Virgin≫『Veiled head』PI.350 Lithograph ed.6/15 A.P. 11.14×9.05in

Golden Week Thanksgiving - On Sale -
April 27th (Sat) – May 12th (Sun), 2024
10:00am-6:00pm (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY FUKUOKA

We have been selling mainly prints and drawings, but also works from a wide range of genres, including contemporary, deceased, and foreign artists, at affordable prices.

Exhibiting Artists
Hanjiro SAKAMOTO / Morikazu KUMAGAI / Ryuzaburo UMEHARA / Takeshi HAYASHI / Zenzaburo KOJIMA / Noriyuki USHIJIMA / Hirosuke TASAKI / Shintaro SUZUKI / Yasuo KAZUKI / Genichiro INOKUMA / Takanori OGISU / Yukio KODAMA / Jin OSAKABE / Kazu WAKITA / Chozaburo INOUE / Ryonosuke FUKUI / Wasaburo ITOZONO / Ryusuke NISHIMURA / Ryo HIRANO / Hiroki ODA / Chimei HAMADA / Kokuta SUDA / Zenzo SAKAMOTO / Kiyoshi HASEGAWA / Kumi SUGAI / Masuo IKEDA/ Ay-O / Kaii HIGASHIYAMA / Yasushi SUGIYAMA / Matazo KAYAMA / Nanpu KATAYAMA / Kayo YAMAGUCHI / Shinsui ITO / Yuki OGURA / Atsushi UEMURA / Chinami NAKAJIMA /Ikuo HIRAYAMA /
Henri MATISSE / Georges ROUAULT / Jean Pierre CASSIGNEUL / Andre BRASILIER / Paul AIZPIRI / Paul GUIRAMAND / Jean CARZOU / Antoni CLAVE / Mark KOSTABI / Ben SHAHN / Leonard FOUJITA , and others.

Ben SHAHN《 Screams of Women in Labor from the Rilke Portfolio 》Lithograph ed.18/200 21.37x16.73in 1968

Joel SHAPIRO《 Work 》Lithograph ed.28　 36.14x24.8in 1989

Ay-O≪Rainbow Passes Slowly: Jan Ken Pon Peace Sign 3 ≫Silk screen ed.20/55 28.93×21.45in 1971

Zenzo SAKAMOTO≪Red space≫Lithograph 23.62x34.64in E.A.-M

Zenzaburo KOJIMA≪Inubosaki≫Watercolour 11.14×10.55in 1953 (With a certificate of authenticity)

Genichiro INOKUMA≪Plum grove in Ouchi≫ Oil on canvas 6.10×9.05in

Kumi SUGAI ≪Signal Series≫
Limited to 150 copies / Year 1976 / Silk screen