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Frantic Gallery
IID 1F, 2-4-5 Ikejiri
Setagaya, Tokyo
Japan 154-0001   map * 
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Yasuhiko ARAKAWA biography | artworks | events

 



 


Introduction


 


Shadow for Arakawa is not just a dark area on a surface. Shadow is a reflection of existing thing, which reveals its hidden character. Ice for Arakawa is not just frozen water. Ice is a sealed sensuality; affection locked in a crystal-clear plane. Arakawa is not interested in “now”. He challenges depictions of “before” and “after”. The remains from building construction refer to the past, distant silhouettes either express grief or manifest hope, the landscape in general is filled with foreboding: anything except “this moment” in current perception of a painting.


 


Thus, Absence is one of the main themes of Arakawa’s painting. Nevertheless, this absence is not just a lack of things but presence of vanishing, the manifestation of missed time. It is exactly this Absence of The Present that produces particular music, tone or audible silence; extremely infectious for the onlooker silence, that takes away the sense of hearing of the onlooker.


 


1983  


Born in Tokyo.
2006- 


Tokyo University of the Arts, Fine Arts, Oil Painting Course / Tokyo, Japan


 


Solo Exhibitions
2009 


"Some Place in Frozen Time", art project frantic, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions


2008  


"Via art 2008", Shinwa Art Museum, Tokyo
"Via art Osaka 2008", Breeze Tower, Umeda, Tokyo
"Artist Show", art project frantic, Tokyo
"Emerging Buds Debut", Exhibit Live & Moris, Tokyo
2007    


"Via art 2007", Shinwa Art Museum, Tokyo

Events
2007    "Media Opera", Asahi Art Square, Tokyo


 


 


 

 

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