MIZUTA Hiroshi
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"Hometown", 2010 ARTCOURT Gallery



"Hide and Seek", 2008 ARTCOURT Gallery
(photograph: Tomas Svab)

Hiroshi Mizuta divulges with deep sensitivity the indefinite, magical sensibilities and phenomena distortions that lie in everyday scenes and in the very acts of their viewing, and then develops these aspects into a world of boldly vivid color. Surfaces are painted to the point of overflowing with accumulations of colors and images that seem to jump out at the viewer. And within these surfaces, coexisting with the rawness of an act of Seeing that is unfettered by words and meanings, and not debilitated by theories of object recognition such as perspective and distancing, there are traces of a surreptitious intimacy between the landscapes and the artist himself through the very act of Seeing. The viewer’ s awareness is incorporated deeply within the beguiling camouflage of a single overlapped layer of interwoven colors and motifs, and one is left wandering after something that vanishes on the edges of one’ s vision even as it comes into focus. Unique relationships of landscapes and the artist’ s viewing of them are crystallized within an image-world that is suspended between the representational and the abstract, between floating and strain.


Biography

1982  Born in Osaka

2006 
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts,
Faculty of Fine Art Graduate School of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts

2008 
M.A., Kyoto City University of Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Ishida Taiseisha Hall, Kyoto

2008
"Hide and Seek", ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2010
"Hometown", ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

Group Exhibitions

2005
Art Court Frontier 2005 #3, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2006 
PICA 2006, Geidai Gallery, Kyoto
LOCA 2006, got “LOCA Prize”,

2007 
“new generation: Playing in Layers”, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
PICA, Geidai Gallery, Kyoto

2008 
On the Work!, Gallery 16, Kyoto ('07)
Zegahi-no Kaiga (Painting, Right or Wrong), DAIWA PRESS VIEWING ROOM, Hiroshima
ART AWARD TOKYO, Gyoko Underground Gallery, Tokyo
PICA 2, Geidai Gallery, Kyoto

2009 
PICA 3, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2010 
MOT Annual 2010 : Neo-Ornnamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

2011 
Kyoto Open Studio Katsura, Katsura Studio, Kyoto
VOCA 2011: The Vision of Contemporary Art 2011, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

Public Collection

The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

Sidewalk, 2010/Oil on canvas/162×130.5(cm)
(photograph: Ichiro Otani)


saint royal apartments 2009/oil on canvas/239×441(cm)
"PICA 3", ARTCOURT Gallery, 2009 (photograph: Nobutada Omote)




Apartment, 2010/Oil on canvas/239.6×622.8(cm)
(photograph: Ichiro Otani)


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