YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY is pleased to announce "Summer group show 2013", an introductory groups show for gallery artists in our new grounded space in TOLOT / Heuristic Shinonome, from July 13 to August 10. With its keen attention to concept, context, and quality, this exhibition showcases diverse artworks by gallery artists; from young talents including mamoru, Tetsuro Kano, Maiko Kasai, Yuichiro Tamura, Kwan Sheung Chi, Manika Nagare, Tomoni Nitta, Nobuhiro Shimura, Nobuyuki Osaki, Yu Yasuda, to prominent artists Tim Barber and José Parlá.

［作家プロフィール］
mamoru
Born in 1977 in Osaka. With his act of "listen", he finds beauty in different sounds generated naturally by daily life that we hear everyday, such as hangers as touching each other, and extracts them as a musical experience. By doing so, he produces value in things considered almost valueless. mamoru will show a new work of "wind study" that he has recently been working on.
http://www.afewnotes.com/

Tim Barber
Born in 1979 in Massachusetts, lives in New York City. Barber is known equally for his curatorial practice as he is a photographer. Known for elegantly composed observations that locate complex beauty in the seemingly mundane, from portraits to landscapes to narrative scenes, Barber approaches all of his subject matter with a palpable delicacy.
http://www.tim-barber.com/

Tetsuro Kano
Born in 1980 in Miyagi. Kano has been producing site-specific installations combining natural objects and readymade items, and designed spaces that contained birds and plants. His works evoke in a seemingly offhanded way, the existence and perspective of a "third party" and a world that human beings cannot entirely control.
http://www.tkano.com/

Maiko Kasai
Born in 1983 in Aichi. Using instantaneous brushstrokes, Kasai creates dynamic canvases with bold compositions. With mixture of everyday scene and made-up story, she expresses "need for practice" to live in "controlled society" in the imaginary world.
http://kasaimaiko.com/

Yuichiro Tamura
Born in 1977 in Toyama, currently a Ph.D. candidate of Tokyo University of the Arts. Tamura samples not only images that he has taken himself but also preexisting footage, coaxing unique relationships out of them in order to create new landscapes. The form of these works varies from installations that incorporate elements of bodily presence and experience, as well as performances that draw the spectator in. He is a recipient of Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists at Institut für Raumexperimente (Berlin, 2013). In this exhibition a new piece made in Berlin will be showed.
http://www.damianoyurkiewich.com/

Kwan Sheung Chi
Born in 1980 in Hong Kong. Kwan is one of the remarkable conseptual artists from Hong Kong. He has recently nominated for Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2013. Some video works including one of his major video work "ONE MILLION", that created for gallery's solo show in 2012 which also showed in Hiroshima MOCA, will be displayed.
http://kwansheungchi.com/

Manika Nagare
Born in 1975 in Osaka. Inspired by "an interest in other people", consists of abstract paintings that depict people who brush past and pass by each other in the midst of modern everyday life using a distinctive palette of colors and line work. A new oil painting will be displayed on the show.
http://www.manikanagare.com/

Tomomi Nitta
Born in 1978 in Nara. Nitta studied oil painting in Japan and US after studied law in Kyoto University. The anonymous human figure floating in empty space represent the existence of human being as an unstable cluster. This figure, titled "Infinite Set", questions viewer the uncertainty of existence, recognition, and memory. The 24th piece of this series, "Infinite 24", will be on display.
www.tomomi-nitta.com

José Parlá
Born in 1973 in Miami, lives and works in Brooklyn. His painting is known for unique expressive style that incorporates elements of both language and writing. For Parlá, city walls are sites where the energy, history, and culture of urban society are located, and where human memory and psychology are inscribed. His works are segments of cities interpreted and rebuilt by him. A new drawing will be displayed in this exhibition (participating from the 2nd week).
http://www.joseparla.com/

Nobuhiro Shimura
Born in 1982 in Tokyo. He has consistently produced installations by projecting moving images with the theme of "Casting light". His expression that overlays live images on everyday landscapes invite viewers new perspective to familiar things. Such works have been displayed in various venue from back-alley to museum. In this exhibition, bucket garden and Goldfish will be shown in both gallery and public space.
nshimu.blogspot.com

Nobuyuki Osaki
Born in 1975 in Osaka. Osaki's practice relies on a variety of different methods and materials including painting, sculpture and video to produce works with varied forms simultaneously and in parallel with each other. By employing original working process, Osaki attempts to highlight the uncertain and unreliable nature of reality in this world. He will show a new painting from "Dimension Wall".
http://www.nobuyuki-osaki.com/

Yu Yasuda
Born in 1982 in Kagawa. Yu Yasuda depicts dream-like landscapes and a fluid, painterly world liberated from existing notions of space and time. These landscapes seem to be premonitions that offer us a glimpse at a future to come, materializing at the other end of the horizon.
http://www.yu-yasuda.com/