Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Hiroe Saeki in gallery 1 from September 7 to October 13. Since her early works, Saeki has made elaborate drawings using mechanical pencils on Kent paper. The current exhibit presents Saeki’s latest drawings created with watercolors and pastels, which provide brand new textures and colorful details, in addition to the color pencils and acrylics the artist used in previous works.

Hiroe Saeki has made an elaborate drawing by accumulating innumerable fine lines. The repeated application of minute lines creates a network of folds, which produces planes and different shades of color. The accumulated lines and their fold-like units compose a plant-like object with extensions that resemble tree branches and leaves. Out of such extensions, various parasitic figures grow, with their own developments evocative of flowers and tendrils. The object assumes the look of a composite organism that, integrating heterogeneous elements, cannot be defined under a single identity.
Midori Matsui, “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” (The Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibition), Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha Co.,Ltd, 2009, p.72