INTERVIEW] Through Stuffed Toys, a Mixed Reality of Disgust and Cuteness: Hidehiko Iijima A stuffed rabbit with only its face painted black. The soft stuffed rabbit is surrounded by hard tree branches and straight concrete blocks, creating a fresh and...
INTERVIEW] Depicting communication before it becomes words through "music": Nakamitsuki The guitarist's fingers, rendered in vivid colors, seem ready to move at any moment. Mixed-Gt.-》2024(©MITSUKI NAKA)Positioning music as the starting point of communication, the artist has been creating music...
Exhibition "Urgent Quest: The Breath of the Flower Dragon," a collaboration between Hiroki Takeda and Monster Hunter 20th Anniversary 9s Gallery is pleased to present Hiroki Takeda Hiroki's solo exhibition "Urgent Quest: Breath of Flower Dragon" from Saturday, 3/30/2024 to Sunday, 4/7/2024. Hiroki Takeda fuses animals, plants and flowers...
[Exhibition] Kumagai Haruko Solo Exhibition - Yuukyu no Ko 9s Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition "Yukyu no ko" by Haruko Kumagai from Thursday, 2/22/2024 to Thursday, 2/29/2024. Solo Exhibition 9s Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition "Yukyu no ko" by Haruko Kumagai from Thursday, 2/22/2024 to Thursday, 2/29/2024. Introduction (Who is this artist? What does s/he do? Haruko Kumagai is an artist who has been creating works that confront the trauma of childhood memories and sexual assault. She has been attracting attention from the art scene. Her work continues to evolve, incorporating a wide variety of expressions, from the rich matiere of her own emotions on canvas to the "Akkun" series, in which she depicts her own inner child with her expansive brush strokes. In this work, she also took on the challenge of creating ceramics for the first time. She is an artist of note who continues to expand her range of expression.