English below
SHIKISAISHA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Moura Kazuyuki, celebrating fifty years of his artistic career, held in conjunction with the publication of Wind Traces: The Breath of Line 1971–2025 (Gallery Station).
Moura Kazuyuki is a painter who has continued to draw lines while traveling the world like a pilgrim.
Through extended stays and artistic practice across Europe and Asia—including Italy, France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, the United States, and Turkey—his expression has steadily deepened. For him, travel has been the driving force behind his artistic practice and is inseparable from life itself.
While working across a wide range of media—including oil painting, encaustic, etching, drawing, and wood sculpture—the foundation of his practice has remained consistently rooted in line.
These lines are not refined toward a predetermined completion; rather, they embrace error, are drawn over repeatedly, and remain on the surface without being erased.
Even when depicting landscapes, flowers, or animals, his work is grounded in a bodily sense of line cultivated through life drawing. Naivety and refinement, randomness and structure, intuition and experience—such opposing elements coexist seamlessly, forming the distinctive character of his expression.
This exhibition presents approximately eighteen works, centered on recent pieces, encompassing oil paintings, encaustic works, etchings, drawings, and wood sculptures.
Held in conjunction with the publication, the exhibition offers a renewed presentation of the breath of line that has run through Moura Kazuyuki’s fifty years of artistic practice, as expressed in his work today.
English below
SHIKISAISHA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Moura Kazuyuki, celebrating fifty years of his artistic career, held in conjunction with the publication of Wind Traces: The Breath of Line 1971–2025 (Gallery Station).
Moura Kazuyuki is a painter who has continued to draw lines while traveling the world like a pilgrim.
Through extended stays and artistic practice across Europe and Asia—including Italy, France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, the United States, and Turkey—his expression has steadily deepened. For him, travel has been the driving force behind his artistic practice and is inseparable from life itself.
While working across a wide range of media—including oil painting, encaustic, etching, drawing, and wood sculpture—the foundation of his practice has remained consistently rooted in line.
These lines are not refined toward a predetermined completion; rather, they embrace error, are drawn over repeatedly, and remain on the surface without being erased.
Even when depicting landscapes, flowers, or animals, his work is grounded in a bodily sense of line cultivated through life drawing. Naivety and refinement, randomness and structure, intuition and experience—such opposing elements coexist seamlessly, forming the distinctive character of his expression.
This exhibition presents approximately eighteen works, centered on recent pieces, encompassing oil paintings, encaustic works, etchings, drawings, and wood sculptures.
Held in conjunction with the publication, the exhibition offers a renewed presentation of the breath of line that has run through Moura Kazuyuki’s fifty years of artistic practice, as expressed in his work today.
MOURA
MOURA
Born in Ichihara, Chiba in 1954.
A painter who has continued his practice while traveling the world like a pilgrim.
Working across various media—including oil painting, wax techniques, etching, drawing, and wood sculpture—
his practice is consistently rooted in the act of drawing lines.
Layered and unerasable, his lines embody physical sensation and accumulated time,
creating a distinctive expression where intuition and experience intersect.
MOURA
Born in Ichihara, Chiba in 1954.
A painter who has continued his practice while traveling the world like a pilgrim.
Working across various media—including oil painting, wax techniques, etching, drawing, and wood sculpture—
his practice is consistently rooted in the act of drawing lines.
Layered and unerasable, his lines embody physical sensation and accumulated time,
creating a distinctive expression where intuition and experience intersect.
