The second three-year anniversary exhibition ‘Garbage, IT and Me’ featuring Yodogawa-Technique, Taihei SHII and Kazuharu ISHIKAWA.

Last October marked our three-year anniversary, and we would like to thank you all for supporting us since our opening.

In August 2006, the year before the gallery opened, an exhibition ‘SCOUTED!’ was held by the same three artists who will join this exhibition. ‘SCOUTED!’ was extremely well received and it became one of the motivations for the gallery director Yukari Mitsuma to establish YUKARI ART CONTEMPORARY.

4 years have passed since ‘SCOUTED!’ and each of the 3 artists is making high-flying progress:
Yodogawa-Technique is an art unit run by Hideaki Shibata and Kazuya Matsunaga, based out of the river terraces of Yodogawa in Osaka, creating artworks using flotsam, driftwood and other waste materials. As well as exhibiting extensively in Japan, they have been invited to show their work in many locations abroad such as Indonesia, Germany and so on. They have received several awards including a prestigious award ‘Sakuya Konohana Award’ in 2009.

Taihei Shii has been working with his unique theme ‘Art in the Internet Era’. His latest web-projects including ‘TENKA TAIHEI Project ver.2′, which fuses a free-style of Haiku and the newest internet system at the present time, are waiting to be launched soon. He is now also exhibiting his works at a gallery in Stockholm, Sweden.

Kazuharu Ishikawa bases his works on simple drawings that he does in sketchbooks. He then re-creates selected images with thread that he glues onto canvases, plexiglass and outside walls and so on. His activities are getting wider and wider: he made work for the company PR of TOYOTA, provided work for the concert flyer of Shuntaro Tanikawa (very famous Japanese poet), made work on the inside walls at Hostel in Kotobuki-cho, Yokohama for the art project ‘KOTOBUKI CREATIVE ACTION’. He won ‘jury’s special award’ at ‘GENBI DOKODEMO KIKAKU KOUBO’, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009.

The 3 artists, full of individuality and originality, are going to exhibit ‘what they want to show now!’ for this exhibition. Please come to see how the 3 artists have been growing since 4 years ago.

* The text provided by YUKARI ART CONTEMPORARY.

Opened dates: January 8 - February 5, 2011