Group show　Sai HASHIZUME / Masaharu SATO / Takayoshi TSUCHIYA

Imura art gallery tokyo presents "Group show: Sai Hashizume / Masaharu Sato / Takayoshi Tsuchiya". This exhibition will showcase the major works by the aforementioned three artists, who present their recent works mainly at museums. We hope you enjoy both the consistency and the diversity of each artist.
Sai HASHIZUME was born in Tokyo in 1980. After graduating from the graduate school of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Now Tokyo University of the Arts), she moved to Berlin and then to Paris for further study. She developed 'Red Shoes Diary' series out of the daily documentation of her own circumstance living and working in these European cities. After coming back to Japan in 2010, she presented 'After Image' series and 'innocence, ignorance and insanity' series, in which she questioned the Euro-centric way of arts. Her works got highly acclaimed at 'Domani show' (The National Art Center, Tokyo) in 2013 in which her works before her stay in Europe to present
were brought together for display. This year, she participated in 'Nostalgia & fantasy show' (National Museum of Art, Osaka) and 'Takamatsu Contemporary Art ・Manual show '(Takamatsu City Museum of Art), and she also worked on the product design of Red B.A. line by the cosmetic company POLA. She is one of the most up-and-coming young artists. In this group show, her works before 'Red Shoes Diary' series will mainly be displayed, including some of her works made in 2003 while she worked on the book binding of "Utsukushii Tamasii" (Beautiful spirit) by Masahiko Shimada.
Masaharu SATO was born in Oita in 1973. After graduating from the graduate school of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000, he developed a unique artistic style while staying in Germany for ten years. Sato's digital paintings are done by scanning photographs into the computer, tracing the outline and coloring them on the computer like oil paintings. His works have distinctive air ‒ they are not photographs while they look like photographs,
they are paintings but they lack the matière(effect) of paints. Animations are produced by connecting the data of these digital paintings. He had two solo exhibitions in 2013: 'Nine holes' at Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan and 'The Earthy Paradise ‒ New horizons of Arts and everyday life- vol. 5 Masaharu Sato' αM, Tokyo, Japan. This year, he had 'Everyday life/off the record' at KAAT Kanagawa Art theater studio, Kanagawa, Japan.
He also works internationally and this year, he sent some of his works to 'Duality of Existence ‒ Post Fukushima' at Friedman Benda, New York. In this group show, his digital paintings and animations produced since 2010 will be on display.
Takaya TSUCHIYA was born in Tokyo in 1974. He graduated from the graduate school of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Since 1990s he has produced art works which stir up visual perception by edging into the daily environmental system in a quite simple way. His works cover a variety of media and range from visual images to photographs, from flat to three dimensional to installation. His latest attempt is the net art series. In 2013, with the architect Kentaro Ataka, he presented 'Kino wa dokoe itta' (Where has yesterday gone?), an installation project and
an attempt to actualize time and the transformation of a place, using renovation of imura art gallery tokyo as the subject. He has been very active both inside and outside of Japan, and this year, he presented 'Uphill' at the entrance lobby of Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, participated in '1974 ni umarete' (Born in 1974) show at The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, and also participated in International media art show 'File 2014' in Sao Paulo in August. In this group show, his past works in a variety of media including three-dimensional works, photographs, and internet productions will be on display.