03-21 Tue —04-02 Sun, 2023
PAGIC Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Shoichi Tsurukawa.
Tsurukawa uses a dyeing technique called “tsutsugaki,” in which he paints his works as if projecting his inner, mixed world.
Tsurukawa creates a unique matiere by sewing the dyed fabric and creating a three-dimensional effect, which makes the most of the characteristics of the support medium, cotton cloth.
The composition of his paintings, which are based on “precision” and “delicacy,” can be said to be the very act of gouging out the artist’s sensitive feelings.
The stubborn core of the artist’s desire to depict the essence of human nature – something common to all human beings with the surface scraped off – never fades away, and the artist’s “ideals” and “life” pile up like debris shattered by reality.
The world of Shoichi Tsurukawa, drowning in colorful joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, exists here.
Shoichi Tsurukawa 鶴川勝一
Born in Tokyo, 1984.
Instagram @shoichi_tsurukawa
http://kinoshokikaku.jp/home/artists/tsurukawa/