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BANYAF Seoul 2015
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Untitled, Oil painting, 60x60cm, 2007
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Iba Yasuko (1967~)
Gallery SUN contemporary, which has been presenting several exhibitions introducing Japanese contemporary art, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by prominent Japanese artist, Iba Yasuko. Having completed the postgraduate course at Saga Art College, Iba Yasuko was awarded VOCA [The Vision of Contemporary Art'98] from The Ueno Royal Museum which made her gain wide recognition. Attended three month training in Monflanquin, France by scholarship of Daimler Chrysler Group in Japan Art Scope '99 as well as stayed in New York for one year supported by Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including ‘Tsubaki kai’ held in Shiseido Gallery and ‘The Elegance of Silence’ at Mori Museum. She has taken part in art fairs abroad and been renowned as the best-selling living artist, working mainly in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. Her works were shown at KIAF 2006 for the first time in Korea and she was invited by International Incheon women Artists’ Biennale 2007. For this exhibition, the first solo show in Korea, recent works are presented with silkscreen prints produced in 2004. Iba’s canvas is filled with exquisitely close-cropped cuts of everyday objects. She transmits bed linen, a part of sofa, the edge of the cushion, a pure ceramic, pudding topped with honey that are often photographed by her to the canvas. Filling up the canvas with enlarged part of fruit that turns to something new keeping its freshness and moistness, clothes patterns and the edges of cushion, Iba doesn’t concern with depicting the realistic image, but the phenomenon generated by the light merged into colour of material. She carefully observes the texture on the surface projected by light and explores the pixels and elements that consist of it. Then she draws them in her imagination with photographer’s eyes, making them alive. The use of the mineral pigment which is traditional technique, dabbing paint lightly let the hazy light alive. Iba brings out something purified from the métier of the object which absorbed the refracted light and stimulates the sense of touch creating an independent being renewed from the photographic image. The object on a canvas is not the photographic image anymore, but a new being named ‘untitled’ breathing and creating exquisite atmosphere. Education 2002 Stayed in New York for one year by "Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists" 1999 Stayed in France for three month by scholarship of Daimler Chrysler Group in Japan Art Scope '99 1990 Completed the postgraduate course of Saga Art College Solo Exhibition 2008 Gallery SUN contemporary, Seoul 2006 MA2 Gallery, Tokyo 2005 Art Space Niji, Kyoto 2004 ART FRONT GALLERY,Tokyo Nomart Edition/Project Space, Osaka 2003 INAX gallery, Tokyo 2001 AD&A Gallery, Osaka GALLERIA CHIMERA, Tokyo Art Space Niji, Kyoto 2000 Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto 1999 Nomart Edition/Project Space, Osaka Spiral Garden, Tokyo Musee des beaux-Arts d'Agen, France 1997 Gallery αM, Tokyo 1996 Art Space Niji, Kyoto GALLERIA CHIMERA, Tokyo 1995 Ban Gallery, Osaka 1994 Art Space Niji, Kyoto 1993 Ban Gallery, Osaka 1992 Art Space Niji, Kyoto 1991 Art Space Niji, Kyoto 1990 ON Gallery, Osaka 1989 Art Space Niji, Kyoto Group Exhibitions 2005 "colorful!",The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma "The Elegance of Silence:Contemporary Art from East Asia", MORI ART MUSEUM, Tokyo "RYOYONOME", Matsuzakaya Museum / TANABE CITY MUSEUM of ART / MIHARA rijon plaza / Hachinohe Ｃity Museum of Art / KAWAGUCHIKO MUSEUM of ART 2004 "Print conception", SEIAN UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN,Shiga "VOCA1994-2003", OHARA MUSEUM of ART, Okayama "TAMA VIVANT2004", Tama Art University, Tokyo / Minatomirai Station, Yokohama "Yellow", Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo "RYOYONOME", KAWAGUCHIKO MUSEUM of ART / Matsumoto City Museum of Art / AMAGASAKI CULTURAL CENTER / Tendo City Museum of Art / Matsuzakaya Museum 2003 "A MUSE LAND 2004" Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo "Detruire", Galleria Chimera, Tokyo "Art Scope", Hara Museum, Tokyo "komorebi", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito "RYOYONOME", Matsuzakaya Museum / TANABE CITY MUSEUM of ART / AMAGASAKI CULTURAL CENTER / KAWAGUCHIKO MUSEUM of ART / MIHARA rijon plaza / MITSUKOSHI 2001 NOMART’01, Contemporary Art Space Osaka "RYOYONOME", MITSUKOSHI / TANABE CITY MUSEUM of ART / AMAGASAKI CULTURAL CENTER / OHARA MUSEUM of ART / KAWAGUCHIKO MUSEUM of ART Art & Craft Exhibition of Selected New Artists, Kyoto Prefecture Museum 2000 "New Art for New Century" Contemporary Japanese-style and western-style painters, Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama 1998 Gallery's Vision'98 Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka Ambiguous Border:Art as a Shadow, O Museum, Tokyo INSIDE-OUTSIDE, ART SPACE SAGA Selected Art Exhibition '98, Kyoto Municipal Museam of Art The Vision of Contemporary Art'98, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo 1997 Depth of Focus, Ashiya City museum of Art and history, Hyogo future recollections, Kyoto Municipal Museam of Art direction of painting '97, Osaka Contemporary Art Center The Seeing of New Art Part3 , Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Kyoto 1996 New phase of image7, Gallery SUZUKI, Kyoto Selected Art Exhibition '96, Kyoto Municipal Museam of Art 1995 women's, Osaka Contemporary Art Center THE TREE part 2 , Sasakawa Peace Foundation, USA 1994 Planter in the last resort, The Ufer! Gallery, Kyoto 1993 Selected Art Exhibition '93, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art 1992 Print Exhibition by 5 Artists, Hirakata Kintetsu Art Gallery, Osaka 1991 Print Exhibition by 5 Artists, Hirakata Kintetsu Art Gallery,Osaka 1990 Prints a New Generation, Gallery Coco, Kyoto Print Exhibition by 6 Artists, Umeda LOFT styling Gallery, Osaka 1988 NEW FACE, Gallery View,Osaka |
