Where the birds return, the horizon that sticks to the eyes

Takeshi Masada

18 Dec 2020 - 16 Jan 2021

AISHONANZUKA is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Japanese artist Takeshi Masada "Where the birds return, the horizon that sticks to the eyes", which will be Masada's first exhibition in Hong Kong.

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1977, Takeshi Masada has been highly acclaimed for his dynamic images and compositions, which are mainly paintings that reconstruct scenes from movies, TV shows and everyday life with bold brushstrokes and vibrant colors. In recent years, he has participated in a number of exhibitions, including "The Way of Painting" (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2014), "The Adventure of Alter Japan Phase 01: Zen and Psychedelic" (Sprout Curation, Tokyo, 2011), and "Portrait Session" (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007).

For Masada's first exhibition in three years, focuses on works created from the experience of spending an unprecedentedly long period of time in the house with the artist himself and his family during the declaration of a state of emergency by Covid-19 and restrictions on going out from March 2020.

Masada says that while he was forced to live under a self-restraint, he was fascinated by the unchanging and free birds outside his window in contrast to the strange, uninhabited scenery of the city, and that he began to see things that he had not seen before in a world with less noise, perhaps due to the decrease in human activity. The highly evocative title of this exhibition, "Where the birds return, the horizon that sticks to the eyes," expresses the hope for a return to the everyday life under such special circumstances, and the importance of "imagining" in closed situations. The view from Masada's window will surely take viewers to the horizon of their imagination.