9s Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition "Jun Suzuki - Flowers For You" from June 16, 2023 (Friday) to June 25, 2023 (Sunday).
Who is Jun Suzuki?
💡Themes expressed
Thependulum of life and death, and art that connects with the heart.
💡Points for viewing the works
Pop, colorful, simple colors
∙ Precise line drawings
Loveliness and solid technical skill.
💡What kind of artist is he?
A painter who creates pop art works expressing life and death, love, positive messages, etc.
About the solo exhibition "Flower For You
The title of this solo exhibition, "Flower For You," represents free and beautiful love.
When we wanted to give something to our mothers as children, we did not always give them things that we bought with money. For example, we would have painted her a picture or picked her flowers as a gift.
When we grow up and are able to afford expensive things, they do not have the same value as a handmade painting or a single flower. Sometimes a single flower expresses a person's own feelings more than anything else.
Jun Suzuki's work reminds us of this simple way of expressing feelings.
We invite you to come and see Suzuki's work, which gently unravels our values and the perspectives we have acquired while growing up.
The following stickers by Jun Suzuki will be given tovisitors only (first-come, first-served). (First-come-first-served basis)
Artist Statement
The theme of "Dokuro-kun" is "free love, gratitude, and a sense of life and death." Dokuro-kun expresses positive and kind thoughts to viewers and future generations.
About the "Dokuro-kun" series:
I have loved drawing pictures since I was a child,
Among them, the cool skeleton designs on record jackets had a great influence on me at that time.
Later, I started drawing in earnest, but I sometimes felt anxious about death, something I had not felt in my childhood, and the skeleton motifs I had been drawing before gradually came to be perceived in my mind as anxious and dark images.
I wanted to change something, so I decided to try to express the feeling of life and death in a different and prettier way than before.
With a skeletal face, I drew a pop expression of a living body, a pendulum of life and death mixed together (Mr. Skull).
As I drew, I realized that "to think about death is to think about life.
I have a strong "desire" to live, and as I drew this character, I naturally became less anxious about death.
I hope to bring people living in the present and the future a moment of relief through Dokuro-kun, who was born from positive emotions.
Artist Profile
Jun Suzuki
Born in Miyagi Prefecture in 1991, Jun Suzuki moved to Tokyo at the age of 23 and enrolled in the Kuwasawa Design School. After dropping out of school, he entered the "PONTOON 'Binding' Competition vol.13" and was runner-up, and started painting with ballpoint pens, which had been his hobby, in earnest. Currently based in Tokyo.
Jun Suzuki is a contemporary artist whose work is characterized by pop line drawings.
Influenced by his father, a ceramic artist, he was exposed to various art forms at an early age and began drawing as a hobby. 2018 marks the start of his full-fledged activities with ballpoint pen drawings, and he has begun to attract attention, winning the ARTRUM SELECTION 2.0 Grand Prize in 2022.
She expresses positive messages about life, death, and love, and hopes to connect with viewers and people living in the future.
Solo Exhibition Overview
Jun Suzuki - Flower For You
Dates: Friday, June 16, 2023 - Sunday, June 25, 2023
Opening hours: Open daily during the exhibition period
Opening hours: 14:00 - on the first day, until 17:00 on the last day
Venue:9s Gallery by TRiCERA
The Wall 3F, 4-2-4 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031
Access: Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Roppongi station 10 min. walk, Hiroo station 10 min. walk
10 minutes walk from Nogizaka station on Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line
Contact: 03-5422-8370
