AISHONANZUKA is pleased to announce a group show “HELLO KONNICHIWA “ by three Japanese artists., This exhibition will be last show at our current space.
"Hello My name is Shuhei Yamada"
Shuhei Yamada was born in 1974 and lives in Kyoto. He has exhibited in Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and New York. Thanks to a referral by The Andy Warhol Museum’s director, Yamada was in 2013 the only Japanese person chosen for the Armory Show Focus, and his artwork inspired by World War II was very well received.
In his early works, which include photography and video footage, Yamada focuses on eliminating from the images the key objects that enable the viewer easily to understand them. Yamada suggests that viewers should think about and read various meanings into his art. He is convinced it’s a problem that people don’t question images enough; they only uncritically take in what’s in front of their eyes.
After the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, he no longer limited his research to issues around imagery, but gained interest in the surrounding society too. The same society that has developed the media to extremes: reality becomes an image, cravings and insecurities are driven by capitalism, nations and political power present absurdity and never-ending violence, with Japan looking like a theme park… His art explores the absurdities of this society that surrounds us.
"Hello My name is Kazuma Koike"
Kazuma Koike was born in 1980 and lives in Osaka. He spent his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and attended a high school in Barcelona, Spain. Graduated from Department of Sculpture, College of Art at Nihon University. He has produced ceramic sculptures, drawings, and paintings with motifs of ancient gods, pots, big cats, plants and pineapples. With the theme of “fictional ancient artifacts”, artworks created by mixing images from different places/periods have a unique floating feeling as if they do not belong to anywhere. Koike says his interests are “the state where different elements coexist in harmony” or “the processing that changes the purpose and meaning of things”.
His selected exhibitions include: solo exhibitions at AISHONANZUKA (Hong Kong, 2019, 16, 13), TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY (Osaka, 2020, 17, 14), VOLTA 12 (Basel, 2016), VOLTA NY (New York, 2016) and AISHO MIURA ARTS (Tokyo, 2013, 12, 11, 10, 09)
"Hello My name is Yoshihiro Kikuchi"
Yoshihiro Kikuchi was born in 1980 in Miyagi and currently works in Miyagi and Tokyo. Recent exhibitions includes "VACCINE",ARTS ISOZAKI(Ibaraki,2021) “Super Processor” AISHONANZUKA (Hong Kong, 2019) “VOCA”, Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, 2016) “process” CMAE (Asturias, 2015) “Solo exhibition” AUTOCENTER (Berlin, 2015) “GoldenEyes” AISHONANZUKA (Hong Kong, 2015)
Kikuchi’s works focuses on ‘deconstructing specific human characteristics’. Making drawings converted from authorless erotic novels without any subjective judgement of the artist, his work explores our limited perception using shocking photos of corps or porn. In contrast to those works, Kikuchi also examines his subjective beliefs and sensory perceptions with collages using found objects and paintings. Kikuchi has been presenting works that coherently verify his theme from every aspect, from material and the creating process, to its image.
