KH Gallery Ginza will host, “Hiroko Koshino, The Sources of Creative Inspiration” from Monday, August 29.
This exhibition introduce a multispectral view of the creations, life, and “Sumi Ink” of Koshino, who draws on the beauty of Japan as the source of her creative inspiration.
KH Gallery Ashiya, reconstructed from Koshino’s former residence designed by Tadao Ando. Longing to obtain a “physical experience and understanding of the four seasons of Japan”, Koshino spent some 30 years of her life in the natural setting.
For Koshino, life in Ashiya serves as the source of not only her creative inspiration, but also the aesthetic senses of the Japanese people which she seeks to pursue through her works.
Signature works including Sumi ink based art works and calligraphies will be on display in this exhibition under the concept of Koshino’s interpretation of “Japanese sensibilities.” KH Gallery Ginza will also explore a new form of presentation through its first-ever exhibition of slides showing Koshino’s lively production process, as well as Tadao Ando’s sketches and architectural scale models of Koshino’s residence in Ashiya. We invite you to come experience Koshino’s beloved atmosphere of Ashiya, the source of creative inspiration seeping through every corner of the gallery as if to transport visitors to the artist’s actual production environment.
KH Gallery Ginza
Hiroko Koshino, The Source of Creative Inspiration
Monday, August 29 – Sunday, September 25, 2016
Gallery closed on the Sundays of September 4, 11, and 18.
The theme for KH Gallery Ashiya’s second period exhibition of the year 2016 is “The Dreams of Mother Earth”.
This exhibition showcases dynamic, expressive artworks drawn with warm and neutral colors. Works including an oil painting inspired from the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, depicting a pair of praying hands, as well as a masterpiece resembling the colors and undulations of earth, embellish the otherwise monotonous gallery. What is noteworthy of this exhibition, is that KH Gallery Ashiya will, for the first time ever, exhibit fashion sketches and allow visitors to imagine the journey in which Koshino freely travels back and forth between the realms of painting and fashion. With the advent of a fruitful autumn approaching with winter just behind, we invite you to a cozy, warm atmosphere against the backdrop colored with the hues of the transitioning nature.
– Reservation required
To make a reservation, submit the online application form linked to this page with all the necessary fields completed.
Hiroko Koshino 《Work #1478》oil / canvas on boad 2015
Hiroko Koshino 《Work #386》ink / japanese paper 2007
KH Gallery Ginza and KH Gallery Ashiya will be closed from 6th to 14th August for summer holiday.
We will not be able to reply confirmation of reservations for Ashiya gallery until after 14th of August.
Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences and thank you in advance for your understanding.
The exhibition, Hiroko Koshino, the Echoes of Summer will be held at KH Gallery Ginza from Monday, July 25.
This exhibition showcases a myriad of creations including a lotus-motif Sumi ink masterpiece from about a decade ago and Koshino’s latest work a serene oil painting exploring the image of trees and water surfaces. The nature themed masterpieces bring about an elegant charm that is reminiscent of the purifying echoes of water.
Serenity sets the background for the whispers of water and rustles of the woods. Take a moment to surround yourself with the cooling echoes which makes the heat of the outside world feel distant.
KH Gellery Ginza will be closed on July 8th, from 2 to 5PM for a Hiroko Koshino’s spacial
invitation event. We aoplogize for any incovenience which may be caused by this.
Last year's
Last year's
Saturday, May 21, – Sunday, June 12, 2016
Open every day throughout the exhibition period.
KH Gallery Ginza presents the Kazumi Kurigami x Hiroko Koshino collaboration exhibit.
The all his new pieces displayed in this exhibition apply solarization, a technique that inverts photos’ color scales and gives one a glimpse of an alternate, surreal world. For this exhibition, Koshino experiments with her new technique of inversing the tone of black oil strokes drawn on a blank canvas while allowing intentional moments of imbalance.
Kurigami’s photos and Koshino’s paintings will be housed inside a large room with high ceilings and no extra decorations to allow viewers to sharpen their senses and explore the true nature of the two-dimensional stoically designed pieces. Let the pieces capturing the gaze of the two artists take over your senses as your imagination wisps you away to a world spreading endlessly with beauty.
Kazumi Kurigami ”Love Story Beginning From Solitude” Series ?Man, Woman, and TV-
Photograph: solarization, inkjet print
144 × 180 cm
Hiroko Koshino 《Work #1578》Oil / canvas 120 × 120 cm
KH Gallery Ginza presents a special collaboration between Keizo Matsui and Hiroko Koshino in the exhibition “Dreams Folded Inside – Transition into ART”. Koshino and Matsui first met in the 1980s, when the HIROKO KOSHINO brand began its expansion overseas. For the next several years until 2001, Matsui designed an array of press materials for the brand. The only instructions Koshino had ever given to Matsui was to “make something interesting”; everything else, she had left up to him. The mutual trust, passion for creation and the “dream” to bring joy to their audience were the ingredients of creative works such as the Paris Fashion Week invitation featuring a captivating pop-up design that went from flat to 3D. Design was never a sufficient field for the two artists, who always aspired to challenge the limits of “ART”. Matsui’s artwork combining “pottery and glass” which finally made shape after 30 years of thought, trial and error represents his aptitude for challenging physical obstacles through craftsmanship. In the same way, Koshino’s paintings also go against the grain with canvases of plaster, cardboard and other unique textures that stir imagination. Bringing the two artists together for the first time in almost 15 years, this exhibit displays works including Matsui’s past designs for the HIROKO KOSHINO brand, his all-new 3D pieces and Koshino’s masterpiece paintings. The exhibit surveys the changing pieces to discover the fundamental spirit of “ART” at their root.
Two artists inspiring “dreams” through design. This time, the perspective is shifted to the “dreams” that lie within the artists themselves to give birth to a fresh sense of creativity.
