Triumph Art Space and Noda Contemporary(Beijing) which is affiliated to Noda Contemporary(Nagoya) will jointly launch A Narrow Strip of Water - Japan-Chinese Young Artists Group Exhibition. 

In this exhibition, Japanese woman artist Ando Yoko learns from traditional Chinese painting techniques to record momentary states people who live in her country. The paradise where animals and human beings live in harmony is a fairyland which is build for us by Matsuyama Ken. With lively strokes and minimal shapes, Kawano Ayako expresses her unbending heart. Imazu Kei describes his changeable personal values with skills of realistic painting while Ohkawara Ai employs a more direct method - dissecting human body to show inner humanity.   

Their expressions are so natural that their works reveal a contemplation to heart. Similarly, Chinese young artists are looking for their interpretation to the contemplation to heart.

Zhang Kai applys techniques of classical western painting to express his inner feeling through borrowing images from original works. It seems everything happens in Sun Yi's magical world is from his personal experiences, but beyond real life. For Guo Jian, toy is a symbol of wonderful childhood memory. Every time he thinks of this, such a sensitive man as he always feel depressed. This momentary beauty turns into teardrops as a soundless cry to give vent to modern people's loneliness and sadness, happiness and depression.

Hope this exhibition will go down in history of the communication betweenTriumph and foreign art institutions and offer Chinese art fans a chance to know the similarities and differences in the artistic creations of Chinese and Japanese artists who are separated by only a narrow strip of water and have the once-similar cultural background.