Tezukayama Gallery is delighted to present "What a cool!", a solo exhibition by Kotatsu Iwata who was born in Osaka and now lives and works in NY.

In this exhibition will be showed about 20 acrylic paintings and 3 wood-cut printed works. Kotatsu will be back to Japan for this exhibition.

We look forward to seeing you at Tezukayama Gallery!

It has been 8 years since Kotatsu moved to New York where he creates works based on everyday life. Using milk cartons, beer cans, companies’ log and cartoon characters, Kotatsu Iwata's works might resemble American pop art such as Warhol and Lichtenstein works from 1960s - 80s which were novel and cutting edge at the time. Kotatsu‘s work expresses not just a novelty, but also a slight nostalgic feeling. With his own style and technique, he uses varied colours to give weight to the screen then scratched. He picks not just vivid colors but mix of colours he finds on the palette every time that has not just impression, it may also novel but deep as well.

In this exhibition, we would like to focus on a "flower", which might be a oommon theme. Kotatsu has been using this motif for a long time, his flowers blooms superb colors, a simple painting allows the imagination to travel. They are without any precise definition, the artist felt inspired in N.Y with the title "What a cool !", since then he has pursued the idea of creating "cool works".