Takagi Toshihiro Exhibition
Sept 5 - Sept 22, 2013
10:00am-6:30pm
Closed: Tuesdays (by appointment), Wednesdays
Exhibits: paintings, pencil drawings ... about 25 works
Gallery Talk : "Influenced Artists and Their Own Expressions"
■ Date & Time: September 8 (Sun.) 2:00 p.m. -
■ Venue: Artland Gallery
■ Fee: 500 yen (with drink)
The artist will talk about his influences from the early days of his career to the present, as well as his own artistic expression.
Takagi Toshihiro Biography
Born in Kurashiki City Lives in Kawaguchi City
Solo exhibition (1984-)
Kobayashi Gallery, Natsuka, kobo, Art Point, GALERIE SOL (Ginza) Sao (Nihonbashi)
Yanagisawa Gallery (Urawa), Oka Art Gallery (Okayama), Artland Gallery (Marugame), etc.
Group exhibition (excerpts from 1995)
Tokyo International Mini Print Triennale, Okayama Prints Collection (Tetrahedron) Kobe Art Marche (Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel) Two-person exhibition (Uncle Iwane Gallery) Draw your emotion to the next scene in Shintomi (SOL) etc.
Words for the Solo Exhibition Toshihiro Takagi
For me, artistic expression is a projection of a small reality through the filter of myself. I express myself by reexamining the elements of expression, such as color and form, in order to convey the fascinating and interesting metaphors of the natural elements that speak to us in our ordinary lives.
For my paintings, I uses acrylics and mineral pigments. In the last few years, I have been particularly interested in pencil drawings. I hope to convey the richness of the subject's expression in a more straightforward manner using the most familiar and simple of materials.
In art history, I am particularly interested in Nanga. In particular, I feel that the simplicity of expression and symbolism found in the works of Ike no Taiga is an ideal method of mastication of painting. In this exhibition, I have a series of paintings composed mainly of circles and dots, and I have been enlightened by the expression of Nanga in many aspects.
