Kunpei Yoshikawa
Kunpei Yoshikawa
Art ENCOUNTERS #11
Art ENCOUNTERS #11
September 22 – October 31, 2026
SHABA: 11:00–14:00 / 17:00–22:00
OMIYA ART WALL: 11:00–22:00
OMIYA ART WALL / SHABA | Omiya
330-0846
埼玉県さいたま市大宮区大門町2-118 大宮門街5F
“ART ENCOUNTERS” is a series of exhibitions presenting artists selected by SHIKISAISHA Gallery. For its eleventh edition, we are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Kunpei Yoshikawa.
Born in Kanagawa in 1998, Yoshikawa studied Japanese painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he subsequently completed his MFA. Working primarily with traditional materials such as mineral pigments and washi paper, while also incorporating ink and various painting mediums, he explores a distinctive visual language informed by a contemporary sensibility.
Yoshikawa’s creative process begins with a search for places to which he feels he can truly return. He travels to these locations, attuning himself to the light, air, temperature, vegetation, and presence of water he encounters there. Drawing on the sensations that linger in his body amid nature’s continual transformation, he does not seek to reproduce the landscape as it appears before him. Instead, he translates the shifting perceptions and memories awakened by the place onto the pictorial surface.
Layer upon layer of mineral pigments and other materials creates distinctive textures and lustres, allowing each work to reveal different expressions depending on the viewer’s perspective and the changing light. Colours dissolve into one another and, at times, enter into tension, giving rise to a fluid sense of space within the composition. The resulting imagery moves between recognizable landscape and abstraction, quietly resonating with the viewer’s own memories and sensations.
Presented across two venues, OMIYA ART WALL and SHABA, the exhibition centres on new works inspired by flowers. For Yoshikawa, their significance lies not only in the beauty of their forms and colours, but also in the acts of blooming, swaying, receiving light, and gradually fading. Through painting, he seeks to capture the warmth and energy held within each fleeting moment of transformation.
While rooted in the traditions of Japanese painting, Yoshikawa opens its materials and sensibilities to the present. We warmly invite you to experience this new development in his practice.
“ART ENCOUNTERS” is a series of exhibitions presenting artists selected by SHIKISAISHA Gallery. For its eleventh edition, we are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Kunpei Yoshikawa.
Born in Kanagawa in 1998, Yoshikawa studied Japanese painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he subsequently completed his MFA. Working primarily with traditional materials such as mineral pigments and washi paper, while also incorporating ink and various painting mediums, he explores a distinctive visual language informed by a contemporary sensibility.
Yoshikawa’s creative process begins with a search for places to which he feels he can truly return. He travels to these locations, attuning himself to the light, air, temperature, vegetation, and presence of water he encounters there. Drawing on the sensations that linger in his body amid nature’s continual transformation, he does not seek to reproduce the landscape as it appears before him. Instead, he translates the shifting perceptions and memories awakened by the place onto the pictorial surface.
Layer upon layer of mineral pigments and other materials creates distinctive textures and lustres, allowing each work to reveal different expressions depending on the viewer’s perspective and the changing light. Colours dissolve into one another and, at times, enter into tension, giving rise to a fluid sense of space within the composition. The resulting imagery moves between recognizable landscape and abstraction, quietly resonating with the viewer’s own memories and sensations.
Presented across two venues, OMIYA ART WALL and SHABA, the exhibition centres on new works inspired by flowers. For Yoshikawa, their significance lies not only in the beauty of their forms and colours, but also in the acts of blooming, swaying, receiving light, and gradually fading. Through painting, he seeks to capture the warmth and energy held within each fleeting moment of transformation.
While rooted in the traditions of Japanese painting, Yoshikawa opens its materials and sensibilities to the present. We warmly invite you to experience this new development in his practice.
Kunpei Yoshikawa
Born in Kanagawa, 1998.
Completed the M.F.A. program at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Creating mixed-media paintings that build upon traditional Japanese materials,
incorporating ink and various mediums.
Utilizing the "fluctuations" and "depth" of his materials,
he translates the lingering sensory perceptions of nature and travel into fluid, evolving colors.
His works, which encapsulate an ambiance and presence beyond defined outlines,
deeply and quietly permeate the viewer's senses.
Born in Kanagawa, 1998.
Completed the M.F.A. program at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Creating mixed-media paintings that build upon traditional Japanese materials,
incorporating ink and various mediums.
Utilizing the "fluctuations" and "depth" of his materials,
he translates the lingering sensory perceptions of nature and travel into fluid, evolving colors.
His works, which encapsulate an ambiance and presence beyond defined outlines,
deeply and quietly permeate the viewer's senses.
