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YUJI AKATSUKA |
photo：Mitsuru Goto |
When one looks at Yuji Akatsuka's paintings, one has the feeling that the colors and shapes which have sunk deeply into one's consciousness have become visible again, as we glance back and feel them come into the corner of one's eye. Sometimes that feeling holds a very concrete form or sometimes it has the feeling of an atmosphere of a whirlpool with its changing temperature. We first collaborated with Akatsuka in 1995, although he had been making prints himself before that. Through etching and aquatint he made the series of intaglio prints entitled "hana", and also made the large scale "Canary 1,2" which used a combination of intaglio and water-based woodblock printing. We then also continued to collaborate with him in 1996, 1998 and 2001. Akatsuka freely uses the special characteristics of blur and shade of intaglio, and so in his work faint images in the darkness come and go. His work has the feeling of speed to be felt as if scribbling on paper and so too the image on the plate furiously comes and goes. In 1998 the book of pictures and poems entitled "Kotori " was published. This was made with a combination of Akatsuka's prints and his wife, the poet Naoko Nishimoto's poems. The prints are folded into two and and presented as an unbound book. The surface of the paper is covered with monochrome intaglio prints and alternated with the poems. As one's hands turn over the pages, beneath them flecks of color appear here and there. |
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| Biography | |
| 1955 1981 |
Born in Kagoshima Pref. Completed the Master Program of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 1981 1983 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1999 2001 |
Galerie 412,Tokyo Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo（'84〜'88,'92,'93,'95,'96,'98,'01,'03,'04） Galerie Ando,Tokyo（'92,'94,'96,'98,'02） Galleria Finarte,Nagoya（'94,'99,'02） Gallery Yonetsu,Tokyo Ota Fine Arts,Tokyo Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu,Tokyo（'96,'98,'01,'04) Gallery Murayama,Tokyo ('97,'98,'99,'00,'01) Gallery Kamakura,Tokyo Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano HANASAKAN, Kagoshima |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 1989 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2001 2003 2004 |
"Japanese Contemporary Art in the 80's" Heineken Village Gallery,Tokyo "PRESENT TO THE FUTURE" Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo "Contemporary Prints in Sapporo 1990" INAX Space, Sapporo "Tokyo Art Expo・JAPAN ART SCENE '90" Tokyo International Trade Fair, Tokyo A Perspective on Contemporary Art・Among the Figures” The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo Also traveled to The International Museum of Art, Osaka (-'03) "Art Today '92" Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa "TAMA VIVANT '92" Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo "VOCA '94・The Vision of Contemporary Art" The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo "Light & shadow・the sense of ephemerality" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (-'95) "A Breeze from Yokohama・Yokohama Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Celebrarion of the 20th Anniversary of the Friend-City Affiliation Between Yokohama and Shanghai" Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai "Allegory of Seeing 1995 : Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan" Sezon Museum , Tokyo "Kyobashi-Kaiwai '95" Gallery Ikedabijutsu,Tokyo "ART TODAY 1997 OPERA APERTA” Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa "Art 29 '98 " Messe Basel, Basel "Print of Prints" Bunpodo Gallery,Tokyo "The 7th International Contemporary Art Exhibition [POLAND-JAPAN]" The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama "Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery : Selected Works from the Permanent Collection Part 1" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo "NICAF 2001 TOKYO" Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo ('03) "Chiba Art Now '01" Sakura City Museum of Art, Sakura "In Search of FORM-11 Japanese Artists" Pusan Metropolitan Art museum, Korea "The Power of Painting -Japanese Painting Since 1980" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo "Modern Art in Japan -from the Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo "50 Years of Contemporary Art" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo |
| Selected Public Collections | |
| The National Museum of Modern Art Sezon Museum of Modern Art Yokohama Museum of Art Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery |
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| Main Galleries | |
| Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu,Tokyo Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo Gallery Kamakura,Kamakura Galerie Ando,Tokyo Galleria Finarte, Nagoya |
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 Walk about 120103 2001 215X300cm oil on canvas photo：Mareo Suemasa Courtesy of Gallery Kobayashi |
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 Untitled 199903 1999 270X250cm oil on canvas photo：Mareo Suemasa |
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 Canary 29211 1992 227X180cm oil on canvas photo：Nomadic Courtesy of Gallery Yonetsu |
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