DEPOSITION    沈澱

Solo show by: IBUKI MINAMI

Opening reception : Friday , Sept. 7th.  6-9 pm  

on display: Sept. 5th.-Oct. 5th.    2018

“Deposition” is Ibuki Miname’s first solo show in the USA.

In his artistic practice Ibuki Miname is using many methods and create many surfaces on the canvas with materials as oil painting, ropes, ashes, stones, sand and more.

A common practice of his is to burn the painting with a torch at certain areas , and that enable to the paint to shift and reveal the inner layers.

Therefor the title “Deposition”, which is a search for additional confidential elements to be revealed, the search for the core of art.

With this method Ibuki also refers to the search within, with the goal to reveal his inner soul, heart and mind.

He is depositing himself, art and God

Ibuki Minami is a student at the Academy of Art University, BFA Fine Art program, graduating in 2019. He is a pupil of Key Haga and Kudo Muramasa. Born in Japan, Ibuki works as an artist in Japan and in the USA. Ibuki is Founder at International Business and Artists (IBA), a group and company that manages artists and produces exhibitions. He creates artwork for his life theme. He mainly presents his work at galleries and art fairs, and he sells directly to patrons. His work is in prominent collections in the USA and Japan.

Ibuki mainly works in abstract paint. However, he also works on stories in graphic novels, printmaking, and the business side of IBA.

Artist Statement:

Ibuki Minami creates mainly abstract painting. He sees a difference between Art and pieces, including painting, sculpture, novel, photograph, animation, design and even performing arts. He believes an artist can only describe a piece as Art if that work depicts within art core. He finds that abstract paint is one of the best styles to portray art core in his painting.

Before he creates one series or one artwork, he takes from three months to two years to consider the work. Ibuki believes abstract painting is a genre that demands emotion, calculation, scientific background and feeling.

Seeing the need for it, he created an algorithm about finding art core and how to depict art core into one canvas. The algorithm is now more than 4000 pages. When he starts thinking about the concept of a work or series, he begins with his algorithm and life theme to get the concept evolving. At the same time, he starts drawing idea sketches and thumbnails. After that, he starts working on canvas. To create the work, he uses his own blends of paint and oil. He uses many materials to depict depth.

Exhibitions:

Ibuki Minami

1995, born in Japan, Tokyo

Academy of Art University Fine Art: Painting Major.

Abstract Painter, Etching Graphic Novel, Story, and IBA founder.

Solo Exhibitions:

2019

Odawara Hilton & Miurajirou Gallery (Kanagawa, Japan) Wedding Solo Exhibition

(Excepted 12/26, 1/5-1/20)

New York

Taipei

2018

Odawara Hilton & Miurajirou Gallery (Kanagawa, Japan) Wedding Solo Exhibition

(Excepted 12/26, 1/5-1/20)

FuchsProjects  NY, Bklyn  (Excepted in 9/7-10/4)

Ibuki Watanabe Solo Exhibition" Dorado Gallery (Tokyo, Waseda)

2017

"Nothingness or Virtual Image" Space K (Tokyo, Daikanyama)

Deposition" Dorado Gallery (Tokyo, Waseda) (Double Solo exhibition)

傷について/星までの距離" gallery conceal （Tokyo, Shibuya）(Yushi Dangami Solo

exhibition Produce) (Double Solo exhibition)

2016

Ibuki Watanabe Solo Exhibition" KazariYA Gallery (Tokyo)

2015

ALAC"SF Park (Guerrilla Solo exhibition)

Orb"SF Park (Guerrilla Solo exhibition)

Group Exhibition and Other:

Art Osaka 2018" Miurajirou Gallery (Osaka, Japan)

A Midsummer Night's Dream" Miurajirou Gallery (Nihonbashi, Japan)

2017

Exhibition IBA" Gallery T (Enoshima, Kanagawa )

Clematis" Halo Gallery (Tokyo, Ebisu)

Joint Exhibition: Ibuki Watanabe & Yushi Dangami" Gallery T (Enoshima, Kanagawa)

AAU Print and/or Book" Printmaking Student Show, Atelier Gallery (SF, USA)

AAU Spring Show" Academy of Art: Warehouse 2225 Jerrold Ave

2016

Exhibition IBA" 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo, Japan)

Fuchs projects is collaborating and participating in the art residency in Zurich throughout July-August-mid September 2018
https://www.truningerag.ch/artist-residency/

On Going :

Three that make it "4"

The Fantastique works of PETROS CHRISOSTOMOU

“Petros Chrisostomou photographs small-scale, ordinary, ephemeral objects in architectural models that he constructs himself, and then dramatically arranges, often employing lighting and staging conventions of the theatre. With the alteration of scale and reversal of the relation between object and environment, between imaginary and real space, his photographs challenge the viewer’s visual certainties. The illusionary effect he achieves highlights the artist’s playful approach, which uctuates between mimicry of the real world and construction of a surreallistic reality.”

Tina Pandi
Curator, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Extract from In Present Tense - Young Greek Artists

 
Petros Chrisostomou constructs hybrid spaces, combining the concerns of artist, sculptor and curator. His work, as much sculptural as photographic, draws inspiration from concepts of hyperreality. These works not only revel in signs and symbols – the simulacra of contemporary life, they transcend that postmodernist trope of the simulacrum, offering distinct traces of the skewed realities of the Dadaists or fantasies of the Surrealists. These qualities are underpinned and stabilised by the architectural accuracy of his miniature interiors, which draw from broad influences, from classical Palladian or a White Cube gallery space, to the contemporary commercial kitsch of fast-food joints, or even a depiction of his childhood home as in the 18 Fortis Green series. The self-constructed model interiors contain life-size objects and within this context, the objects are transformed into oversized sculptures, surreal representations of themselves.

Chrisostomou’s work questions how we interpret them using a range of incongruous visual clues, obscure constellations of objects and spaces, with symbolically rich contexts. Most recently this work is made with materials collected from stores located in Brooklyn, Afro American hair extensions, grooming products, and Dollar store items, that in turn are socially connected to the communities they reflect.

Similarly the environments chosen to present these objects tell a story –through a lucid observation of Brooklyn’s subcultures- and link a thread throughout the geographical and social connotations of these works. As a product of Globalization, born in London to Cypriot parents, and now living in New York, Petros Chrisostomou explores the idea of the indigenous habitat, by creating these boxes from which to work in, and juxtaposing these items to form connections and disconnections. They become symbolic metaphors for a decentralized notion of where we find ourselves culturally grounded, and the spaces that we relate to as home.

Petros Chrisostomou was born in London, 1981. He lives and works in New York. He was a resident on the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, as well as the winner of The Red Mansion Art Prize, where he worked for a concentrated period of time in Beijing, China. His work has been included in public and private collections worldwide.

Recent exhibitions include ‘Miscellaneous and Blended- Art from NYC’ Museo De Arte De Sinaloa (2014) ‘Nirvana- Strange Forms of Pleasure’ MUDAC, Musee de design et d’art appliques Lausanne (2014) Vertigo, Xippas Gallery, Geneva (2013) "Photographs" at Fuchs Projects gallery (2013) ‘Ficciones, International Biennial of Photography, Punta Del Este, Uruguay (2011) Plastic Lemons, Spring Projects, London (2011) Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, The Photographers Gallery, London (2009) In Present Tense-Young Greek Artists, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2008) 3rd Beijing International Art Biennial, British Pavilion, Beijing (2008).

Editor’s note: Extract from a text by Roy Exley

Projects on display :

                                                            Canvas prints of fashion super models from the 90s by Rafael Fuchs.

"Bushwick Forever"

Volume I (2005-2011)

A book by Rafael Fuchs

“Bushwick Forever_Volume 1” has a selection of about 180 images that Rafael captured in Bushwick during the years 2005-2011, and it’s the first book of a larger series of books
that will continue to explore and present images taken till the very current present.

The images are compiled in a special artist's edition of just 100 books, coffee table style.

"Looking at the choices of images I ended up selecting for this first book of the series is interesting since, alas the over-all quiet and melancholic view (you might say) of fractions of the neighborhood and its people you can sense the pivotal reflections and references to some of the events and individuals that are a part of the vivacious life style of Bushwick, a neighborhood that has been gaining an important global influence on art, culture and social issues in the past decade.
Some photographs might resonate different reactions from different viewers, and I, deliberately, preferred to leave the images in the book pure, without any captions or titles.
I have many stories to tell verbally, but I’d rather have the meaning of the images reside in the viewer.” -Rafael Fuchs

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