While referring to Western paintings, Kawada Ryo reworks them into familiar motifs to make them lose their meaning, extracting the material aspects of the paintings for his own work.
His artwork drawn on rough canvas in recent years has been attracting attention, characterized by the simple processes and rough brushwork with which they are drawn.
Figūra falsa, the title for this exhibition means an “image of falsehood” in Latin. Kawada will present new works focusing on the theme that he has been working on continuously.
On the Artwork Sale
All of the exhibited artworks will be on sale. If interested in purchasing, please inform the staff on site during the period below.
Period: Friday, November 11 - Thursday, November 17, 2022
Hours: 12:00-20:00 * Until 17:00 on the last day
Venue: ROPPONGI HILLS A/D GALLERY (3F, Roppongi Hills West Walk)
* The intent of purchase could be made known only at the venue, and won’t be accepted via phone/e-mail.
* If there are multiple offers for a particular work, a lottery drawing will determine the buyer.
2022
Oil on canvas
41.0 x 31.8 cm
2022
Oil on canvas
170.0 x 130.4 cm
2022
Oil on canvas
146.0 x 96.8 cm
Kawada Ryo
Kawada Ryo
1988 Born in Niigata
2015 Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, BFA
2018 Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, MFA
Currently lives and works in Yokohama.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2014
- USUBOROSU, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
- 2016
- Guise, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
- 2018
- figment, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
- 2019
- Classic, THE SECRET MUSEUM, Tokyo
- 2020
- Self-portrait, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
- 2021
- Artificial light, Bambinart Gallery, Tokyo
In terms of their Western values, which are a distant removal from my own roots, paintings remain entrenched in art history. By taking a page from symbolic persona, motifs, compositions and some of their individual parts, I rework them into familiar people and things in my own paintings and cause their motifs and backgrounds to lose their meaning, thereby continuing to simplify my own paintings in a way that’s closer to the surface. Through this exhibition, I would like to re-examine what the essence of painting is by putting it into the arena of a simpler context.
Kawada Ryo