Hiroto Tomonaga "Lightning"
Kosaku Kanechika (Kyobashi)
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KOSAKU KANECHIKA is pleased to present Hiroto Tomonaga’s solo exhibition “Lightning” from March 22nd to May 2nd, 2025 at Kyobashi.
Hiroto Tomonaga captures transitory moments in which things he is looking at appear to him ever so briefly as something else, and strives to render this in painting. In his practice, this change that occurs before his eyes gradually translates into paint on the canvas, becoming fixed on the surface. While the resulting paintings are fixed, they feel as if they might resume moving once again, and express the sense of helplessness the artist himself feels regarding the world he sees before him.
Tomonagaʼs paintings have a distinctive surface texture. He creates a surface that, while not physically thick, possesses depth, by building the paint up with the brush, kneading it, or layering it. There seems to be an intensity to the canvas, almost as if it were pulsating or breathing, but also somehow heading towards oblivion, and yet in a way that is by no means subtle. Seeing his paintings in the flesh produces a much more powerful impression than seeing them on a screen.
Tomonaga carries a notebook, briefly sketching memorable landscapes and noting down words that he comes across in his daily life, then ruminating on them. When this act extends to his painting practice, the images and ideas in his mind come into being, using the method described above, hovering and wavering, but without taking clear form.
The indeterminate nature of Tomonagaʼs art defies language and earthly logic, unsettling the world in which we live comfortable, albeit constrained, lives. In recent works, he has been building a sense of fullness that seems to jump off the painting surface, achieved by fixing onto a single canvas the numerous reactions that result from making different elements collide. This show, “Lightning,” will present about ten new paintings.
Hiroto Tomonaga captures transitory moments in which things he is looking at appear to him ever so briefly as something else, and strives to render this in painting. In his practice, this change that occurs before his eyes gradually translates into paint on the canvas, becoming fixed on the surface. While the resulting paintings are fixed, they feel as if they might resume moving once again, and express the sense of helplessness the artist himself feels regarding the world he sees before him.
Tomonagaʼs paintings have a distinctive surface texture. He creates a surface that, while not physically thick, possesses depth, by building the paint up with the brush, kneading it, or layering it. There seems to be an intensity to the canvas, almost as if it were pulsating or breathing, but also somehow heading towards oblivion, and yet in a way that is by no means subtle. Seeing his paintings in the flesh produces a much more powerful impression than seeing them on a screen.
Tomonaga carries a notebook, briefly sketching memorable landscapes and noting down words that he comes across in his daily life, then ruminating on them. When this act extends to his painting practice, the images and ideas in his mind come into being, using the method described above, hovering and wavering, but without taking clear form.
The indeterminate nature of Tomonagaʼs art defies language and earthly logic, unsettling the world in which we live comfortable, albeit constrained, lives. In recent works, he has been building a sense of fullness that seems to jump off the painting surface, achieved by fixing onto a single canvas the numerous reactions that result from making different elements collide. This show, “Lightning,” will present about ten new paintings.
Schedule Now in session | Mar 22 (Sat) 2025-May 2 (Fri) 2025 6 days left Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Mar 22 (Sat) 2025 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://kosakukanechika.com/en/exhibition/lightning/ | ||||
| Venue | Kosaku Kanechika (Kyobashi) https://kosakukanechika.com/en/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Toda Building, 1-7-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8388 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 6 at Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line, 5 minute walk from exit B1 at Nihombashi Station on the Ginza and Tozai lines, 5 minute walk from exit A7 at Takaracho Station on the Toei Asakusa line, 7 minute walk from the Yaesu Central exit of JR Tokyo Station. | ||||
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