8 June - 19 June

Kouichi KITAMURA
one-person exhibition

Bindweed-2, 10 x 10 cm


"A beautiful 'flower' does exist, but the beauty of a 'flower' does not exist".
Hideo Kobayashi

 I think that seeing is choosing or discovering. When we see something, we realize the ezistence of figure, air and feeling. Since old times people have seen flowers and expressed their feeling with th skilfull usage of words. They do not intend to express special meanings of words, ideas and ideologies, but they try to refine words that they could impress the images of words.
I suppose, that the skill of drawing, carving and printing is the same as that the use of words. Those skills will be mature. The process of the aging does not always mean the progress of the world. History is not merely memorizing historic events but rather recalling them. I wish my body and soul could be enriched.

Maple -S, 10 x 10 cm

 


Residence: Chiba
Education: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (1981)
Affiliations:  Printsaurus

1956    born in Chiba

Selected exhibitions:

1992,93 Kwangju-Chiba Exchange Print Exhibition (Kwangju, Korea / Chiba, Japan)
1993    Belgium-Japan Exchange Print Exhibition (Tokyo, Hamamatsu)
1993    Print message from Japan '93 (Bankok. Thailand
1993    Belgium-Japan Exchange Print Exhibition (Meguro Museum of Art, Japan)
1993    Napa Art Center International Mini Print Exhibition (California, U.S.A.)
1995, 96  Canada-Japan Exchange Print Exhibition (Japan / Canada)
1995    Thailand-Japan Exchange Print Exhibition (Chiba, Japan)
1998    Japanese Graphics "40+1 living faces" (Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, Russia)
1998    International Folding Fan Exhibition; Travelling show (Japan, Russia, Belgium, U.S.A.)
1999    ROC-Japan Print Exchange Exhibition -2000   (Japan / ROC)

Solo Exhibitions
1992      Gallery Saoh, Nihonbasi
1994      Voseido Reflection Gallery, Ginza
1994      Gallery Gyinreishya, Chiba
1996-     Tokyo, Sapporo, Kanazawa, Gunma, 2000      Antwerpen
2000      LeVall Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia

Theme : A figure of flower and Japanese Traditional forma

Sazanka -S, 10 x 10 cm


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