Current Art Gallery Exhibition

"Flowers and Japan"

Hiroko Nakakita

Feb. 3, 2021  - Mar. 7, 2021

Mizuma & Kips is pleased to announce the opening of “Flowers and Japan” a solo exhibition by Japanese artist NAKAKITA Hiroko. 

 

In nature, flowers that bloom in "random" are something that we humans long for, as we are bound by reason and think and live in a "deliberate" way. She states that the real beauty emerges when both "random" and "deliberate" elements are perfectly balanced in the mind and on a single canvas.

The theme of this exhibition is "Flowers and Japan,” and it is a collection of works that depict the color of the soul of Japanese people who are mindful to the transience of life, and correlates the cycle of a person's life to the life of flowers until their withering moments. 

 

“In our daily lives, we constantly try to seek answers and attempt to find the right actions that best conform with other people.

I have adored chandeliers that remain to overlook over such human nature, or flowers that are short-lived but full of life and bloom to their last fleeting moments. These are things I have continued to paint.

Human beings cannot live freely like flowers, as we have emotions. However, when emotions heighten, we sigh deeply or emit tears and sweat. For me, the dripping of paint is something that comes deep from my body. I believe that relinquishing myself to the unexpected things, like a drip and accepting each unexpected encounter with color, is the only way to produce a work with a soul.

As I sway back and forth between overflowing emotions and praying silently, I replace them with colors. I believe that finding harmony between "deliberate" and "random" born from the colors and sublimating it into the world of imagining, is when a true beauty arises, and I try to paint that every day.”—NAKAKITA Hiroko

 

NAKAKITA Hiroko, who completed her master's degree at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2006, has been actively holding exhibitions in Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo. Additionally, freeing herself to not only be in Japan, she has also held exhibitions in New York and built her career by producing and presenting works in earnest fashion. She has consistently worked on the contradictory theme of "deliberate" and "random."