KH GALLERY

KHギャラリー銀座では、このたび、日々進化を続けるコシノヒロコの最新抽象絵画展を開催いたします。

コシノはすべての創作において、色と質感を重要視しています。とりわけ抽象絵画は、決まった型や具体的なモチーフがない分、洗練された色とそれに調和する質感がよりダイレクトに表されています。アクリル絵具や墨を中心に抽象絵画を制作してきましたが、2015年の春からは本格的に油絵具を使い始めました。コシノは自身の感覚と発見をもとに、実に軽やかに絵具と戯れます。特に色の深みがゆっくりと変化していく油絵具は、まるでそれ自体がいのちを持っているかのように、予想もつかない表情を見せてくれます。コシノは絵具の変化を楽しむように、描いては眺め、また明くる日に新たなアイデアを絵に吹き込みます。

思いもよらない現象から生まれるのは、まるで大きな自然の一部分のような魅力的なテクスチャー。コシノは自身の抽象絵画に、水のゆらめきや樹々のざわめき、星のまたたきを感じ取っています。自然を愛し、自然の中に身を置いて絵画を制作するコシノにとって、抽象絵画はその美しさを最も的確に表すことの出来る手法でもあります。

自ら描く絵画の中に、思いがけない美しさを発見すること。それは見知らぬ世界への旅のようなものなのかもしれません。

新作抽象絵画で魅せるコシノヒロコのいまを、ぜひご高覧ください。

Since its opening in 2012, KH Gallery Ginza has continued to introduce fashion designer Hiroko Koshino’s creations which range from paintings and three-dimensional works to lifestyle design. The gallery has also been a space for organizing collaborative exhibitions with artists from various genres.

For this exhibition, Hiroko Koshino welcomes ceramic artist Toshio Ohi for a two-man exhibition. Next in line to inherit the tradition of Ohi ware which has continued for 350 years in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Toshio Ohi will present a collection of ceramic work that was produced exclusively for this exhibition, while Hiroko Koshino will exhibit oil paintings that have never been on display before, as well as earthenware created during her visit to The Tenth Ohi Chozaemon Ware this August.

Toshio Ohi’s ceramic works are characterized by the elegant luster and exquisite hue formed by the layering of kiln-transformed natural ash glaze. The unique forms produced by the traditional hand-forming technique also give off a sense of ambiguity, where “rigidity and flexibility” as well as “dynamic and static” coexist. In comparison, Hiro Koshino’s abstract oil paintings, of which thick surfaces deeply dimensioned with multiple layers of oil paint and solvent are sure to intrigue their audience with a dignified presence that completely differs from that of her conventional acrylic paintings. Hiroko Koshino’s profession as a fashion designer comes to life in her earth ware, where dimension is formed by “cutting” clay.

The exhibition brings together Toshio Ohi and Hiroko Koshino’s insatiable pursuit for “beauty” in the form of a new type of beauty, which explores the integration of tradition and modernity to expand beyond the physical spaces created by the two artists and evolve into the realm of the grand universe.

Each season, KH Gallery Ginza showcases the world of Hiroko Koshino, whose artwork explores a wide range of medium including fashion, painting, and lifestyle.

Traditional Japanese culture such as kimonos, Bunraku puppet theaters, kabuki, and the three-stringed Shamisen lute had been a part of Hiroko Koshino’s life since the days of her youth. The significant influence of this childhood experience can be seen in Hiroko Koshino’s fashion pieces and artwork, which express a unique worldview where Japanese and Western cultures intermix.

At this exhibition, the traditional beauty of Kyoto-style folding and paper fans will be introduced in three components.

First, 48 types of Kyoto-style folding fans, round fans, and paper fans featuring Hiroko Koshino’s artwork will be exhibited and sold. Against a screen surpassing the formal sector forms, the array of art pieces brings to life dynamic choreography of brush strokes dipped in Chinese ink, and indulge visitors in a fresh coolness that reminds them of great nature. The second part of this exhibition consists of a traveling exhibition from Kyoto, where the four-hundredth anniversary of the Rimpa School is being celebrated. The exhibition titled “RIMPA – The Rimpa School of Tomorrow Created by Eight Designers: Exhibition of Folding and Paper Fans” was held at the Tokiwa-Shinden of Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, this March. Last but not the least, representative works of the three companies, which had given us great support in producing the exhibition pieces will be displayed: Itostune Corporation, Komaruya Sumii, and Kyo-Uchiwa Aiba.

The gallery invites you to come spend a cool and peaceful Japanese moment while feeling the transition from the summer breeze to the autumn wind.

KH Gallery Ginza presents a variety of artworks of Hiroko Koshino that match up with each season. Koshino is an artist who is active in a wide range of fields such as fashion, painting, and lifestyle products.

The gallery also collaborates with creators from different fields who are close to Koshino.

Hiroko Koshino and Aquirax Uno are leading figures of respective fields: Koshino is a fashion designer; Uno, an illustrator. While their genre-straddling activities are gathering attention than ever, this exhibition consists of approximately 60 works featuring the two’s competitive collaboration under the theme of portrait. Hiroko Koshino mainly exhibits portraits of people in their traditional garments. Uno’s portraits include a series of portraits of globally renowned musicians along with original drawings of KABUKI actors’ posters. This is where the worlds of the two artists confront each other, wherein the people depicted in the portraits interact multidimensional. Come feel the excitement of the gallery space with its fresh representation.

I wonder how many years have passed since I encountered Uno’s works.

His works pass through me like a pantomime. We’ve been attentive to each other’s activities for a long time. Now, having established our own stages, it’s time to examine quietly what we’ve built up through portraits. Having said this, I’m so excited to collaborate with Uno, who is such a great master. (Hiroko Koshino)

Although a fashion designer, Hiroko Koshino has the drawing skills of a real painter. The media and expressions of her art are varied, from ink painting to oil painting, or from abstract art to figurative art. This time, portrait has been chosen as a theme for our collaborative exhibition. At this exhibition, a series of my large portrait paintings are exhibited thanks to Mr. Teruo Iwata, a collector of my works. With this, I feel like I am finally ready to vie with Hiroko’s energetic works. (Aquirax Uno)

Hiroko Koshino, active in a wide range of fields, from fashion, to painting, to lifestyle. While active as a fashion designer on the front lines of the industry, her presence as an artist always vigorously immersed in creativity has fascinated a great many people. At KH Gallery Ginza, we will present the diverse styles presented by Hiroko Koshino’s world of art for each season.

Koshino’s style is to construct her artwork as she sketches them out. In this pieces, the vertical and horizontal, and the lower and upper stratum intersect, and accumulate in layers as they materialize, fortifying their visual multi-layered nature. To an artist who continues to create artwork at her studio in Rokko mountains, the changing of seasons in Japan are perpetually a source of inspiration, and have come to be a theme in her work.

For this exhibition, we will display approximately 10 paintings, including some new pieces, themed on the variety of contrasts in the natural world, such as the moon and sun, light and shadow, and warmth and cold. This masterpiece, shown at the Mus-e des Arts D-coratifs in Paris in 2010, makes its Japanese premiere. At this venue, you are sure to come into contact with the philosophy of Koshino’s perpetual pursuit of new forms of beauty.

KH Gallery Ginza will mark the third anniversary of its founding in September 2015. The gallery’s tenth exhibition in this, a milestone year, will feature works by Akio Hirata, hat designer for Empress Michiko as well as for many leading catwalk brands, and by fashion designer Hiroko Koshino.

It is one year since the death of Akio Hirata, who played the leading role in the field of haute couture hat called “Haute Mode” in Japan for many years. He thought outside the box, creating strikingly original designs which all the while valued Japanese tradition. Meanwhile, Hiroko Koshino has given expression to Japanese aesthetics and traditional culture in the area of clothing, playing a major role in boosting the Japanese fashion world in its infancy.

In her past collections, created in collaboration with Hirata, the elegant, fashionable, and unique styles of the pair harmonized astonishingly, causing many people to marvel. Each one of these works, infused with their creators’ spirits down to the last detail and backed up by their passion, surpass any concept of fashion, projecting a distinctive presence even today.

Please enjoy observing the brilliant design philosophy of these two designers, who loved the culture and art in which they were raised, and who continually experimented in various ways in order to create a new beauty.

KH Gallery Ginza in Namiki Street, Ginza, presents variety of artworks of an artist Hiroko Koshino that match up with each season.

Although Koshino had already used fabrics in collage or other techniques, she paused to focus on fabrics themselves for this exhibition and created a series of artworks mainly including relief-shaped ones, using forms of wrinkles and pleats. Her passion for beautiful forms as a fashion designer seems to go beyond the area of drawing and expand stories in the three-dimensional world of creation. Crystals of fabrics that Koshino had come to life embody a variety of animals and plants and eventually transform into innocent cavorting fairies who alight in the space.

A huge work and installation artworks that set a precedent for this series, which were exhibited at “BIWAKO BIENNALE 2014” held until November will also be exhibited at KH Gallery Ginza during the exhibition.

In this winter, listen to the whisper of fairies for a while and enjoy the new fantastic world of Hiroko Koshino.

このたび、KH ギャラリー銀座では、小篠弘子（コシノヒロコ）の幻想的な絵画世界に、シンガポールで活躍する武田段（Dan Takeda）のフラワーマジックが舞い降り、協奏曲の第二楽章を奏でます。

小篠は本年、3 月～5 月の淡路花博2015 において花にちなんだアート作品の展示、また銀座のギャラリーでは多彩なアーティストとのコラボレーション展示も予定しています。その序章となるような、4 日間のみの特別展示を是非ご高覧ください。

武田段（Dan Takeda）

1981 年、横浜生まれ。日本での研鑽を経て2008 年シンガポールにDAN TAKEDA FLOWER & DESIGN PTE.LTD を設立。ルイヴィトンのシンガポール旗艦店での顧客向けパーティやクリスチャンディオール、シャネルなど多くのハイエンドブランドの店舗ディスプレイが評判を呼び、2013 年には月刊AERA｢アジアで勝つ日本人100 人｣に選出され冒頭記事を飾る。2014 年英国の出版社Thames & Hudson のOliver Dupon 編「Floral Contemporary」で世界を代表するフラワーアーティスト 32 人のうちの1 人として作品が掲載される。ラッフルズプレイスでのフラワーインスタレーションや国立シンガポール美術館でのデモンストレーション等、アーティストとしての活動も精力的に展開している。

公式サイト（英文）http://www.dantakeda.com

KH Gallery Ginza in Namiki Street, Ginza, presents variety of artworks of an artist Hiroko Koshino that match up with each season.

In April, just before setting out to create artworks for this exhibition, Koshino was impressed by the scenery that she saw in Greece where she had been traveling. It was a street art (graffiti) that decorates the run-down wall with its surface poses a melancholy look, decaying over time. The graffiti gave the wall a vibrant colorful look.

Based on her memory of the travel, Koshino’s original graffiti art pieces that are created on art boards, are being exhibited while exercising as many mediums as she can currently employ. Those include graffiti, a primitive medium of creative activity, photo collage, and artworks with repetitive images that present design elements, and so on. Meticulously selected small art pieces among some 100 art pieces shall convey feelings that Koshino must have felt, while capturing each image through the lens of a camera. Things that have been around for ages similarly embrace old and new feel; subtle charm that passage of time can only deliver that are contrasted with vivid strong colors… Koshino’s memory and her free imagination bring you to the vivid graffiti world. Please enjoy.

At Biwako Biennale, takes place around the same time as the exhibition, installation under a theme of “White World” along with some of the artist’s paintings are put on exhibition. Koshino’s another world that differ from visual vivid ones can be enjoyed there.

KH Gallery Ginza in Namiki Street, Ginza, presents variety of artworks of an artist Hiroko Koshino that match up with each season. This exhibition marks the seventh occasion, featuring “Tree Series” that Koshino has been working on for a long time. Among the artist’s 16 pieces of work include “Holy Dichotoma,” along with her latest work of a folding screen that had been exhibited at the 77th anniversary of her birth. “Holy Dichotoma” is a piece that had been exhibited at The Salon Comparaisons held at Grand Palais, Paris in 2011.

“Trees synchronize with spirit,” says Koshino. She planted an evergreen tree of Redwood (Sequoia Sempervirens) in her studio in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, where she mainly draws her art works. She named the studio “Semper,” with her wishes for everlasting prosperity.

This exhibition’s Tree Series captures paths of Hiroko Koshino’s bright and lively creative life, which represents joy. Please enjoy the exhibition.