Gallery Strenger is pleased to announce a group exhibition of Myriam Eykens and Youhei Sugita. We introduced both of them as Belgian female sculptor and a young Japanese painter last year. Those two artists with quite different age, sex, and back ground make up the new collaboration this year. Myriem Eykens keeps being taken an active part long around Europe in the 1970's after studying sculpture in the Fine Arts Academy of Ghent in Belgium. She has been based in Flanders since then. The delicate curve line, the expression filled with tenderness and the color which wraps terra cotta softly, that are the features of her work and ease an atmosphere and also give comfort on that occasion. We feel even the necessity of the material of terra cotta and a woman who focuses on female grace and small simple "Pleasures" received from daily life. This will be her third exhibition in Japan, and we introduce eight terra cotta sculptures including the heads. On the other hand, Youhei Sugita is capturing the spotlight after graduating from Musashino Art University last year. Sugita has been thoroughly remarkable: the work acquisition by Mitsubishi Art Gate Program and Tokyo Wonder Seed Prize, also a first solo exhibition in Tokyo followed by our group exhibition last summer. His original style is the thick and pre-dried layer of acrylic paint which he calls the "paint-skin" collage on the canvas. We introduce six paintings on "death of the living thing" this time. Having got to know the fact of the beetle of an external skeleton leaving only the dead helmet, and contents having melted away after its death, he wonders what it is really proofing from. How the memory of my appearance in people whom I have met should be. These themes ‒ "the time of death" from a young artist and "living joy" from acknowledged artist seem so contrastive but exist so closely together. We are wishing you would like to take a moment between these extreme thoughts. * The text was provided by Gallery Strenger.