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28th November-19th December, 2009
Dessin Dessin
Ayako David Kawauchi
(Born in 1963, Ehime)
It will be twenty-three years by this year and she already spent the half her life overseas. After Kawauchi moved to France, as a textile designer, she worked for famous fashion maker's such as Lidewig Edelkoort, Anne Clert, and Marie Claire Idées. But her dessin worked on her private time came to attract the public notice gradually, and since 2006 she has devoted her life to drawing completely.Her dessin suddenly brought into the limelight at a solo exhibition and the art fairs, "salondedesin contemporain", and "Slick Dessin09" in recent years in Paris. The The background is completely eliminated from the scene, Kawauchi reveals the dark side, somewhat to be too early from their innocent expressions, which is hid in the body of fresh adolescence. She easily grabs down the physical feature of the model and will also foresee the hidden desire as well. When seeing them who are drawn bold and fresh with the powerful charcoal line, we can't help but feel puzzled. In addition to this sole exhibition with Gallery Strenger, we exposed new work of Kawauchi at Emerging Director's Art Fair "ULTRA002" (October 29 - November 3) and the Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2009 (November 21 - 23) continuously this autumn. She is planning to show her work not only in Europe but Japan.
works: "Untitled", 2009
24 Oct-14 Nov,2009
1978
■Natsuko Uno
(Born in 1978, Tokyo)
■Kaori Tamura
(Born in 1978, Yokohama)
Entitled 1987 which refers to the artist's birth year, the exhibit showcases this next generation of Japanese artists, soon to graduate from Tama Art University. Person to person, man and woman, the past and the future - everything is made of relationships. Whether or not we are conscious of these relationships, or whether these relationship go well, I do not know said Natsuko Uno. On the other hands, Kaori Tamura creates fantastic worlds where transparent feelings overflow the layers within her work. Painted in tempera, Tamura applies colors onto panels, then scratches through the surface, giving the work its poignant imperfection. Tamura describes this process as the act of tearing up a surface to express the inside world demonstratively. They met at the Tama Art University and have shared the same atelier for last four years. But next year, they will make their own road. we hope to see both of them at the gallery again someday.
works: "R:Recollection by Uno L:Colony by Tamura", 2009
26th September‐17th October, 2009
White Space
Silke Schoener
(Born in 1968, Germany)
Schoener depicts landscape, people, and the buildings on a big white canvas delicately and beautifully by superior description technique. All visible things are not drawn on the canvas but what remains in her heart, and the thing which does not remain are sorted out. If this white space is her spiritual sanctuary, it is also the space which is not visible unless we open up our inner eyes.In the last exhibition, "Sleeping Beauty", was represented with a mysterious outlook on the world which drifted between the reality and non-reality by the pursuit thorough realism expression. However, as her own work approached surrealism gradually, she started to sence incompatibility and this was not the way she hoped it would be. Then the description part of the reality arranged in an orderly manner had been arranged more in full scale ever. She believes that she is able to show her spiritualism with this original painting method and began to show new development.
works: "Freedom", 2009
29th August-12th September, 2009
A Silent Touch of Aphrodite
Karin Patricia Jensaen
(Born in 1957, Denmark)
After Karin Patricia Jensen studied the design of pottery and glass at the Denmark design school, she grew seriously involved with artwork when she settled in Elsinore, 1997. Her attitude toward creating ceramics is very relaxing and she is usually inspired from the connections with nature.She wished to make a bowl which would be filled with kind and love when she agreed on the first solo exhibition in Japan. The idea became stronger every day, and the bowls of "Aphrodite" were completed by something other than her idea alone. The work process surprisingly advanced well. It was just Listening to my heartEwhile making "Seed" and "The Listener." When the work of Aphrodite was placed at the exact angle of 45 degrees from the sun the shadow of Yin-Yang symbol appeared. It was the moment that she was assured all must had been not coincidence but planned.
works: "Seed", 2009
18th July - 8th August, 2009
Myriam Eykens/Youhei Sugita
Myriam Eykens
(Born in Belgium)
Youhei Sugita
(Born in 1986, Mie)
Eykens has been based in Flanders. The delicate curve line, the expression filled with tenderness and the color which wraps terra cotta softly, that are the features of her work and ease an atmosphere and also give comfort on that occasion. We feel even the necessity of the material of terra cotta and a woman who focuses on female grace and small simple "Pleasures" received from daily life. On the other hand, Youhei Sugita is capturing the spotlight after graduating from Musashino Art University last year. Sugita has been thoroughly remarkable: the work acquisition by Mitsubishi Art Gate Program and Tokyo Wonder Seed Prize, also a first solo exhibition in Tokyo followed by our group exhibition last summer. His original style is the thick and pre-dried layer of acrylic paint which he calls the "paint-skin" collage on the canvas. We introduce the paintings on "death of the living thing" this time. Having got to know the fact of the beetle of an external skeleton leaving only the dead helmet, and contents having melted away after its death, he wonders what it is really proofing from. How the memory of my appearance in people whom I have met should be.
works: "La jour", 2008/A Butterfly on the mouth, 2009
Sat,20th June - 4th July, 2009
Hymn to Life
Inge Horup
(Born in Denmark, 1958)
Birds-which are givin a whole new life by Tomita who just graduated from Tama Art university this spring....
"Inge Horup's paintings are a world full of love and poetry. Expressive - with woman as a vital focal point in a space filled with glowing colours." This is how Knud Grothe describes Inge Hørup's art when she exhibits her works at his gallery in Charlottenlund, Denmark: "A Hymn to life" Inge Hørup is without doubt a painter of joy and zest for life. Looking back in time, it's obvious to talk about A Hymn to Life. It has for years been shining out through her choice of motifs,@but just as much from her love of and skilled ability to manipulate colours.
works: "Blue Hour", 2009
Sat,16th May - 6th June, 2009
Yoridorimidori
Natsumi Tomita
(Born in Tokyo, 1986)
Birds-which are givin a whole new life by Tomita who just graduated from Tama Art university this spring....
A bicycle which someone was riding, a drink cans that finished being drunk,
and a broken umbrella E
Ones that finished playing their first role E
Collected, connected, and given a whole new life...
This exhibition is all about Birds.E
There is no such animal as those appearances, lifestyles, and colors are diverse.
And each is considerably so unique.
There must be various discoveries in the shape and the color when you approach birds
in the gallery.
I am just glad to see people relate to the work closely and enjoy it. (Natsumi Tomita)
works: "Yoridorimidori", 2009
Sat,4th - Fri,24th April, 2009
A Piece of the Earth
Etiye Dimma Poulsen
(Born in Ethiopia, 1968)
Etiye Dimma Poulsen, a Danish sculptor with Ethiopian birth. She now lives in Belgium . Poulsen spent her childhood in east Africa in Tanzania and Kenya until settled in Denmark, 1982. After she studied art in school, she moved to France in 1991, and then, met clay... started working on sculptures. The statue is structured with an iron mesh, covered with clay, and the color is added before burning. After the exhibition in January 2008 in Tokyo, Poulsenf s had a show in Denmark and Paris consistently. This year, we will be showing her well known peculiar crack clay sculptures, and brand new bronze sculptures and water color paintings to add new taste to the show.
works: "Moon Watchers", 2009
Sat.7th - Fri.28th March, 2009
STRENGER PROJECT Part2
Son Bong Chae Joo Dae Hee
artistsEbr />Son Bong Chae
Joo Dae Hee
Gallery Strenger has been introducing European contemporary art since its opening in 2007 and the theme of " Strenger Project " is a series of exhibitions which focuses on the next-generation of young Japanese artists and now also Asian artists. This is Gallery Strenger's second trial to be a bridge between Asian andEuropean art scenes. We will be exposing twoNew Faces from South Korea, Son Bong-Chae and Joo Dae-Hee.
works:
Son Bong Chae "nostalgia", 2009
Joo Dae Hee "Crying Baby", 2009
Fri 6th - Sat,28th February, 2009
I Want to Be Loved
- Culture-bound syndrome IV -
Yamazaki Ryoichi
(Born in Tokyo, Japan)
A young Japanese sculptor, Ryoichi Yamazaki has been consistently working on the children having the psychological illnesses called a culture-bound syndrome. They are lost and stop communicating with not only themselves and the others. But they are the children whom we want to be with and love when we feel tired, when we want to rest and when we want to be all by ourselves.
This exhibition includes several new sculptures and many drawings on the wood panels, notebooks and slips of paper.
works: "Mada Netai-no", 2009
Sat, 17th January - Sat, 31st January, 2009
"Tokyo Flirt" Barbara Flatten
Barbara Flatten
(Born in Koeln, Germany/Lives in Tokyo, Japan)
Gallery Strenger introduced a German photographer living in Tokyo, Barbara Flatten.
Barbara Flatten was born in 1970, Cologne, Germany. She graduated from Johannes Gutenberg-University with degrees of fine art and philosophy in Mainz, Germany.Flatten has been given an opportunities to expose her works in widely Europe , and also showing in Tokyo since her family moved to Tokyo in 2006.
works: "Agravic Tokyo", 2007
Sat, November 8 - Sat, December 6, 2008
nostalgia
Wang Gang
Wang Gang
(Born in China/Lives in France)
Gallery Strenger is pleased to announce first solo exhibition of Wang Gang ; Nostalgia after moving to the Minami Azabu area in Tokyo, which is held from November 8th to December 6th, 2008. Wang Gang was born in Shandong, China in 1964. After graduating from Fine Arts University of Xi'an in 1985, he settled in Paris in 1996. Since then he has been active and building up career in Europe, America, China and especially in France. People think about their home, their serene expression wonft change anywhere and forever.
works: "Libre comme l'air", 2008
LITHUANIAN CONTEMPORARY
Agne Jonkute & Vidas Biveinis
Artist
Part1:Agne Jonkute
Friday, August 29 - Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Part2:Vidas Biveinis
Saturday, September 20 - Saturday, October 11, 2008
BIVEINIS' press release
JONKUTE's press release
Gallery Strenger, specializing in European art, is happy to announce our 8th exhibition, "LITHUANIANCONTEMPORARY".It is a series of second-consecutive exhibitions to bring in the works by two young promising artists from Lithuania.
Dovile Trumpyte (head of Contemporary Art Information Center, Lithuanian Art Museum) and Lolita Jablonskiene (curator of Lithuanian National Gallery) nominated Agne JONKUTE for part 1 and Vidas BIVEINIS for part 2 of the exhibitions. They are expected to show us the current Lithuanian art.
works:
Agne Jonkute "Facts of Inexistence", 2005
Vidas Biveinis "Fears", 2006
Friday, July 11 - Saturday, August 09, 2008
STRENGER PROJECT Part1 Youhei SUGITA & Natsuko UNO
ArtistF
Yohei Sugita
Natsuko Uno
Gallery Strenger starts "Strenger Project", a series of exhibitions which focuses on the next-generation of young Japanese artists to be a bridge between Japanese and European art scenes. The memorable first exhibition of the series is by Youhei SUGITA and Natsuko UNO, recommended by the so-called art-sommelier, Fuyuhiko Yamamoto.
SUGITA's energetic canvas is the collage of the "paint-skin", thick and pre-dried layers of acrylic paint. His Tokyo Wonder Wall Award winning painting is on the show. UNO, still a junior, tries to capture and depict her daily happenings, focusing on the relationship and balance of the things in our daily life.
works:
Yohei Sugita "Blooming at the Sorrow House", 2008
Natsuko Uno "RelationshiP", 2008
June 3rd - July 4th, 2008
"VISAGES" Jacqueline Devreux
ArtistFJacqueline Devreux
(Born in Belgium)
works: "Kathy", 2008
The face.
Whether in painting, photography or even cinema has always exercised on her a strong fascination. Devreux's works consists of portraits and self-portraits.
Hazy background creates an aura of silence and timeless moments and The fuzzy faceline vanishes into the dark background but the landscape of the shadowy skin is very recognizable as if she/he is breathing right before our eyes.
This is the first solo exhibition in Japan of a female Belgian artist, Jacqueline Devreux follows the first show in America in 2007. @Since her professional debut in 1999, she has devoted to depict portraits exhibiting in Europe, especially in her mother country Belgium.
April 17th - May 24th 2008
"MOMENTS" Myriam Eykens
Artist: Myriam Eykens
(Born in Belgium)
+works: "Le Silence", 2005
EYKENS' women figures wear a fully peaceful and somehow extraordinary expression and show mellow curvaceous bodies. The airy texture of terra cotta and smooth surface of bronze give them timeless and peaceable atmosphere.
It was EYKENS' first solo exhibition in Japan and featured her recent representative series of works - women figures made of terra cotta delicately colored with natural pigments and bronze with fair skin texture – including new sculptures.
February 29th - April 11th 2008
Silke SCHOENER "WHITE"
■ Under the patronage of Deutsche Botschaft Tokyo
Artist: Silke SCHOENER
(Born in 1968, Germany)
+works: "Sleeping Beauty II", 2008
We may have two kinds of realities: what is going on in real life and what we have in our mind. What does exist in the real world? And then, where the intersection of reality and unreality is? Silke SCHOENER partly erases colors and shapes from her canvas to open our mental eyes. It is us who puts the puzzle together with its missing pieces and reconstructs the surface of her canvas.
Silke SCHOENER is a German artist who made her first exhibition in New York a big success. The new collection of 10 oil paintings, mainly on landscape, will be at Gallery Strenger for the first time in Japan.
Jan 12th - Feb 22nd, 2008
POULSEN of Denmark, the 1st show in Japan
Artist: Etiye Dimma POULSEN, Born in Ethiopia, Live in Denmark
POULSEN spent her childhood in east Africa and settled in Denmark. When she moved to France in 1991, she met clay and started working on sculptures.
Recent years, Poulsen has had solo shows in Europe, Africa and the United States and gained a great attention on a sculpture of the novel style.
■ INTERVIEW on Jan. 1st 2008
■ Etiye Dimma POULSEN
Artist kissing her work.
+works: Etiye Dimma POULSEN, "Man From Japan", 2007
Nov 3rd - Dec 7th, 2007
Laima Eglite of Latvia, First Exhibition at Gallery Strenger
Artist: Lima Eglite, Latvia
Gallery Strenger introduced a Latvian artist, Laima Eglite, at the first time in Japan.
Eglite was really into a dance and a pantomime, also drama in her childhood, yet she was very much influenced by this experience which played a big role on her late career.Then she came to express her feelings by drawing as she used to do it by pantomime. For her, drawing was a just substitute tool for diary. She began to draw a daily event around her on paper.
The reason why she doesn't need a model is that there is still a sense of motion deeply in her. Eglite is a producer of the drama, and the canvas is her own theater.
"Love for the life, inner energy for art." "Love for the life, inner energy for art." Please listen to her words recited through a work.
+works: Laima Eglite, "Nude II", 2007
Sep 1st - Oct 31st, 2007
Gallery Strenger Opening Exhibition
Featured artists:
+ Ornella Baratti Bon, Italy
+ Josiane Grandin, France
+ Juan Li Jia, China
+ Myriam Eykens, Belgium
Gallery Strenger is a showcase for contemporary art from recognized artists, mainly from Europe. To celebrate the first show, four artists from Europe exhibited their works for the first time in Japan in corporation with d'Haudrecy Art Galley in Belgium.
+works: Josiane Grandin, "Il Paretaio", 1998