YUGEN Gallery Opening Exhibition “Add”

April 6th (Sat) - April 21st (Sun), 2024

YUGEN Gallery will be holding a group exhibition called "Add" from Saturday, April 6th to Sunday, April 21st, 2024, to mark the opening of its Minami Aoyama Gallery.

The exhibition was planned and curated by Noma Hirotaka, and brings together five artists who are garnering attention not only in Japan but also overseas.

The exhibition will be themed on "Add," which means to add or supple, and will feature approximately 30 pieces, most of which are new works created by each artist for this exhibition.

The five artists participating in this exhibition are "Wataru Kimura," "SOMETA," "POKO," "KRM," and "DELUXESTO." These five diverse artists, with a variety of backgrounds including street culture, music, and fashion, will come together to create works that feature people and living things, though with different motifs.

This exhibition will be made up of works by each artist that are not just two-dimensionally imagined, but that have been created by “adding” new methods of expression to create works of a different dimension. These will inevitably color the new YUGEN Gallery, as if they were painting on a blank canvas.

Please come and see the new works that have been added to the new gallery.

Exhibition Information

Venue

YUGEN Gallery
KD Minami Aoyama Building 4F, 3-1-31 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Dates

April 6th (Sat) - April 21st (Sun), 2024

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 13:00-19:00
Weekends and holidays: 13:00-20:00
*Ends at 17:00 on the final day only

Closed Days

None

Admission Fee

free

Notes

*Please note that the dates and opening hours may change without notice depending on the situation.

Exhibited works images

Wataru Kimura
Wataru Kimura
SOMETA
SOMETA
247POKO
247POKO
KRM
KRM
DELUXESTO
DELUXESTO

*Please note that some of the exhibited works may be subject to change.

YUGEN Gallery Opening Exhibition “Add" - Reception Party

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About sales of artworks

At the same time as the exhibition, the works will be available to view and purchase on the YUGEN Gallery official online store.

Wataru Kimura
Wataru Kimura
Taking the complex emotions and instability of young people as his theme, he expresses humanity through facial expressions of hesitation and irritation. He believes that emotions that can be perceived as negative can sometimes cause people pain, but at the same time, they also give people a sense of being alive. His representative work, LOST BOYS, depicts just such a moment.
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SOMETA
SOMETA
He started self-taught digital painting in 2020. He mainly posts his works on social media and will start working as an artist in 2022. The concept of his work is the "needy" parts he feels while expressing himself on social media. He expresses the needy portraits that everyone feels in this age of social media through his work.
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247POKO
247POKO
Born in Kagoshima in 1993. He is skilled at making the invisible gaps in everyday life visible through his artworks, along with the objects, people, and environments that we encounter in our daily lives. He currently bases his artistic activities in both Tokyo and Kagoshima. I was born in Kagoshima in 1993. I currently work to make invisible gaps in daily life visible through my artworks, along with everyday objects, people, and the environment.
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KRM
KRM
After 10 years of being in a band, I started to teach myself how to paint. I use the dolls that I always had with me while I was in the band as my motif. I draw directly on the designs and icons of printed matter that I find around me, and then I create canvas paintings based on those.
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