[Tokyo] Shin KAMIKAWA Exhibition "MOSS GARDEN" a Garden on a Wall Feb.4th(Sat)- Feb.19th(Sun) ,2023

“MOSS GARDEN: Stream” 2022　Wooden panel, Washi, Acrylic, Leaf　around 8.9 x 6.2 in

Shin KAMIKAWA Exhibition "MOSS GARDEN" a Garden on a Wall
Feb.4th(Sat)- Feb.19th(Sun) ,2023
10am-6pm (Open every day during the event)
MIZOE ART GALLERY TOKYO

The artist will be at the gallery on February 4th, 5th, and the 6th.

On deep green-colored support, square objects covered with gold leaf are rhythmically installed. When he visited Zen temples in Kyoto inspired by "MOSS GARDEN", a song by a rock musician, he was strongly impressed by Hojo North Garden in Tofukuji Temple, a moss garden of checkered pattern. While the garden designer Mirei Shigemori tried painterly expression in the garden by moss and cut stones, Kamikawa expressed the atmosphere on the flat artworks as a garden on a wall.
Although Kamikawa has painted soil colored "THE WALL Series" on the theme of the Chikuho region for a long time,
he pursues the possibility of flat artworks by painting Japanese aesthetic sensibility in MOSS GARDEN.
Enjoy the new world of Shin Kamikawa.

　
“Twill” 2022　Wooden panel, Washi, Acrylic, Leaf / “leaves” 2022　Wooden panel, Washi, Acrylic, Leaf　around 8.9 x 6.2 in

Shin KAMIKAWA
1958 Born in Nogata-shi, Fukuoka/83 Graduated from Oil Painting course at Musashino Art University/84 Grand Prize at Young Art Award Exhibition Kyushu/95 Grand Prize at Tanio Museum Award Exhibition/96 Merit Award at Aoki Shigeru Memorial Award Exhibition/97 Honorable Mention at Yasui Award Exhibiton/11 Solo exhibition at Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art/18 Solo exhibition at Nogata Tanio Art Museum.