GALLERY MoMo Projects is pleased to present a group show titled “The Way of Drawing” from December 13th through January 24th. The group exhibiting will highlight drawings by three artists: Amy Myers, Hideyuki Nagasawa and Mireya Samper. Beyond the different field and diverse cultural backgrounds, we can find out similarities and differences through their works.
Amy Myers, living and working at New York, has influenced by her farther, a physicist, and been interested in Newtonian Physics and Quantum Mechanical Theory since she was a child. As a result, she continues drawing inspired by these themes. The ethereal and complex lines like digital graphics are drawn freehand and show the quality of her drawing skills. By having dialogues between the work and the paper, she adds a sheet of paper one by one. Like answering the inquiry of the work asking to the artist, she puts another new paper on. The seams between the papers are a system of latitude and longitude to help her deal with issues of symmetrical gentle detailed lines. The motifs drew on the symmetry seem like the traces of the rotation in space or the female wombs.
NAGASAWA Hideyuki who mainly works with oil panting will exhibit watercolor series inspired by Hasushitae Hyakunin Isshu Wakakan, known as a masterpiece of Edo period created by Soutatsu Tawaraya and Kouetsu Honami. In this drawing series, Nagasawa uses the dots in the same way of painting like his Membrance series and Painting on Painting series. The dots with watercolor blur spreading on a paper that oil paintings cannot produce. By employing the dimension sense of the vague and the definite, his drawings express mutual subtle involvement between depth and surface.
Mireya Samper, Icelandic artist, participates in many projects of Artist-in-residence all over the world and creates site-specific works using local and regional produced materials in each country. In Japan, she made art works linked to environmental issues using local nature when she took part in the Abiko International Open-Air Art Exhibition in Chiba and the Art Islands in Tokyo, in Izu Ooshima. Mireya works equally into 2 and 3 dimensional forms. In this group show, she will exhibit drawings by ink and crayon on Japanese paper and stones carving surface in water drop shape. Her intuitional lines on Japanese paper provoke the greatness of mountains and the tempestuous of nature. The work reminds us the natural threats and the stillness that many Japanese felt when they saw the news Mount Ontake erupt on September 27 2014, which killed 57 people. The shapes of water drops on stones express tears, a symbol of infinity and the eternity of nature.
This group show will introduce the uniqueness of the drawings of these three artists from different background expressing in various ways.
