Katsumi hayakawa lines

Katsumi Hayakawa Lines September 3 (Sat.) - October 8 (Sat.), 2016 GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku

GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku is pleased to present the fifth solo exhibition of Katsumi Hayakawa titled Lines from September 7th through October 8th.

In his early works, Hayakawa applies many layers with different paints and chips away at the layers with a power drill. In this manner, the artist succeeded to express perspective and neo-futuristic spaces. Since 2009, he has developed the active motif and the stereoscopic plane expression by making the perspective in his paper works. The works seem like that we look down at the urban constructions.

This exhibition consists of his latest three-dimensional installations and wall works with paper and glue borrowed architectural elements. Looking down at the elements of Western modernism “dot, line, and surface” like Kandinsky and Mondrian used, we can also see influence of Japanese culture in the lines that used for describing rains and lattice doors in his Ukiyoe works by Hiroshige Utagawa, and in Japanese comic books such as drawing the expressive effects. According to the artist, he can’t help but be fascinated by the trite super retro visual language dot, line, and surface.

In this exhibition, Hayakawa strengthens the simple and minimal composition by employing the idea of Adolf Loos in his essay Ornament and Crime. The concept of Loos dose not connect to his artworks visually, however, it might connect to his internal themes that are the similar issues Loos suggested in the book such as unequal society, poverty, and the conception of minimalist in the contemporary society.

Katsumi Hayakawa was born in 1970 in Tochigi, Japan. After graduating from Nihon University in 1992, he went to the United States and received his M.A. from School of Visual Arts in 1998. Hayakawa has exhibited at Daniel Silverstein Gallery in New York, McClain Gallery in Huston, Nou Gallery in Taipei, Galeria YUSTO / GINER in Malaga and Micheko Gallery in Menschen. His works is held in the Museum of Malaga, LOUIS VUITTON Collection and some public collections.

Artist Comment Vertical line and horizontal line, grid, skew, time, space, horizon, surface and depth, flow, speed, gravity, antigravity, floating, city, transit system, information, circuit, symbol, composition. Focusing around these keywords, I attempt to expose the vision recognition and internalized invisible composition.

Katsumi Hayakawa, 2016

1970 Born in Tochigi,Japan

[Selected Group exhibitions]

1992 B.F.A., Nihon University College of Art, Tokyo, Japan

2012 "International Paper Biennial Rijswijk 2012" Rijswijk Museum, Rijswijk, Netherland

1998 M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

"New Year Show" Nou Gallery,Taipei, Taiwan

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"A Golden Time of Day" McClain Gallery, Houston

2011 "VERY FUN PARK 2011 in TAIPEI" Taipei City, Taopei [Solo exhibitions] 2016 Nou Gallery, Taipei 2014 McClain Gallery, Houston "Geometric Allegory-Bonsai City and Fata Morgana" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo 2013 "GRAVITY ANTI-GRAVITY" Nou Gallery, Taipei "VOID and SOLID, a new way of world making" Galería Yusto/Giner , Málaga, Spain 2012 "PHASE Ⅲ - Structure and Form -" GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo 2011 "New Horizons" Micheko Galerie, Muenchen "Urban Landscape" Nou Gallery, Taipei

"Art For Japan" McClain Gallery, Houston

"Regenerate" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo

2010 "Art Tea Exhibition" Nou Gallery, Taipei

"Taipei Biennaler" Taipei Fine Arts Museum,Taipei

2009 "Winter show" GarsonBaker Fine Art, New Yoyk, NY

"2nd art-icle Award 2009" DESIGN FEST GALLERY (EAST), Tokyo, Japan

"4th Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya Award" Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan

"Summer Group Show Hop Step Jump" GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo

2008 "Art Chicago" McClain Gallery, Houston "Opning Exhibition" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo, Japan

2010 "Magical realism in urban space" GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo 2009 "Double : Vision" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo

2007 "SUPER PHAT" Visual Arts Gallery, New Yoyk, NY

2008 "Sentient : Elements" McClain Gallery, Houston

"TEASE" Garson Fine Art, New York, NY

"Summer Group Show" Winston Wacther Fine Art, Seattle, WA

GarsonBaker Fine Art, New York 2004 McClain Gallery, Houston 2000 Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York McClain Gallery, Houston

"The 12th Annual Los Angeles Art Show" Represented by M% Gallery, New York

2005 "Tokyo WONDER SEEDS 2005" WONDER SITE SIbuya, Tokyo, Japan "ART 212, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY" Represented by M% Gallery, New York

1999 Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York ​ [Awords] 2006 THE NOMURA CULTURAL FOUNDATION 2005 The 20th HOLBEIN SCHOLARSHIP 1997 INTERENATIONAL ENCAUSTIC WORKS '97 First Prize

Recognition of the Outstanding Work, School of Visual Arts MFA Faculty Scholarship, NY, USA

[Collection] Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Malaga, Spain Louis Vuitton The Royal Bank of ScotlandEntargy-KOCH American Embassy, Dubai TARGET, USA

Katsumi Hayakawa Intersection #01016 2016 Acid free paper and mixed media H.91.0 x W.182.0 x D.11.0cm JPY 2,670,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa Detail of "Intersection #01016"

Katsumi Hayakawa Multi-layer Structure 2015 Acid free paper and mixed media H.91.0 x W.182.0 x D.11.0cm JPY 2,670,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa Detail of "Multi-layer Structure"

Katsumi Hayakawa Cubes #1173 2016 mirror and mixed media H.53.4 x W.112.8 x D.7.5cm JPY 1,280,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa Holes and Space 2016 Paper and mixed media H.8.8 x W.32.6 x D.5.5cm JPY 130,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa Gravity and Balance 2016 Paper and mixed media H.40.0 x D.100.0 x W.126.0cm / H.40.0 x D.110.0 x W.110.0cm / H.40.0 x D.110.0 x W.110.0cm / H.55.0 x D.55.0 x W.55.0cm JPY 1,300,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa In Between 2016 Paper and mixed media H.23.6 x W.34.7 x D.8.5cm JPY 290,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa Reflection Type H #010162016 Paper, mirror and mixed media H.38.8 x W.54.8 x D.8.5cm JPY 620,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa Intersection #01016 2016 Acid free paper and mixed media H.91.0 x W.182.0 x D.11.0cm JPY 2,670,000- (Framed)

Katsumi Hayakawa Structural Colors #01016 2016 LED tracing box, epoxy resin, HCR paper, water H.4.5 x D.25.0 x W.33.5cm JPY 180,000-

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