[Tokyo] Takashi YATOJI Exhibition April 8th (Sat) - April 23rd (Sun), 2023

　
《 Patrick 》35.82x35.82 in Acrylic paint　2023

Takashi YATOUJI “Rumination, Thereafter”
April 8th (Sat) - April 23rd (Sun), 2023
10:00am-6:00pm (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY TOKYO
The artist will be at the gallery on April 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd.

In this exhibition, Yatoji creates a world of his own by duplicating and transforming a motif with intention－meaning that the artist repeatedly depicts the same motifs but transforms each copy to prevent his work from being mundane, and in anticipation of the new possibilities that could be created. In addition, the artworks in this exhibition include unique motifs such as “images that were generated by AI that look like people" and "photos taken several years ago that I had forgotten about". This is the result of the artist feeling that his personal relationships with the motifs he has painted in the past, such as friends and neighborhood scenes, became a distraction. For this series, he began to choose more random and unrelated subjects, and only in the process of painting them would he start to nurture a relationship with them.
We will be exhibiting approximately 30 new works, including several large paintings that are size 100 or larger. Please come and see the new world of Takashi Yatoji.
Kazunobu Abe, Mizoe Art Gallery



Takashi YATOJI / Born in Aichi Prefecture, in 1990. Graduated Saga University Graduate School of Education, Department of Education with a major in Art Education in 2015. Received the Saga Prefecture Governor’s Prize at the 62nd Saga Prefecture Art Exhibition in 2012. Received Grand Prize at the 22nd Eiten for ‘Figures and Customs’, Grand Prize at the 63rd Saga Prefecture Art Exhibition, Saga Chamber of Commerce and Industry Association Prize, Honorable Mention at the 1st YWCA (Yamanashi Wine & Art Auction), Honorable Mention at the 22nd MCAGP (Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program), and became a MCAGP scholarship student in 2013. Held a solo exhibition at Okawa city Seiriki Museum of Art in 2019.