Shunsuke Imai: Skirt and Scene

Date: Sat 16 July – Sun 6 November 2022
Closed: Mondays (except 18 July, 19 September, 10 October), Tue 19 July, 20 September, 11 October

Shunsuke Imai (1978-), an artist known for his painting series featuring vividly colorful stripes, will hold his first solo exhibition at a museum.
The painting series, displaying images suggestive of waves or flags rendered with a distinctive Pop color sense, is based on experiences of being powerfully struck by the pattern on an acquaintance’s swaying skirt or the colors of fast fashion items stacked at a mass retailer. Imai has since explored expression while lightly commuting between figurative and abstract, flat and three-dimensional, and art and design.
With a primary focus on paintings, this exhibition will display the entire scope of Imai’s output from his early works to latest productions, ranging in genre from sculpture and video to installation. Viewers, who must cope with visual information overload in contemporary society, will feel their senses awakened by the fresh rhythm of Imai’s shapes and colors.

Date

Sat 16 July – Sun 6 November 2022

Closed

Mondays (except 18 July, 19 September, 10 October), Tue 19 July, 20 September, 11 October

Hours

10:00-18:00 (Admission until 30 minutes before closing time)

Organized by

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, The MIMOCA Foundation

Subsidized by

Japan Center for Local Autonomy, Japan Arts Fund

Fee

Admission: Adults ¥950, Students (college, university) ¥650, Children (0 year to highschool) free
*Ticket valid for admission to Permanent Collection.

1. Shunsuke Imai, untitled, 2011, Private Collection
2. “Shunsuke Imai ‘color / form’” HAGIWARA PROJECTS, 2014
3. Shunsuke Imai, untitled, 2017, Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
4. Shunsuke Imai, untitled, 2022, Collection of the artist
5. “shiseido art egg vol. 8 Shunsuke Imai ‘range finder’” Shiseido Gallery, 2014 / Photo: Ken Kato
6. “YCC Exhibition Program – Shunsuke Imai” Yokohama Creativecity Center, 2015 / Photo: Kazuomi Furuya
7. Making of untitled / Photo: Kazuhito Tanaka
8. Installation view of “Shunsuke Imai: Skirt and Scene”
9. Installation view of “Shunsuke Imai: Skirt and Scene”
10 Installation view of “Shunsuke Imai: Skirt and Scene”
11. Installation view of “Shunsuke Imai: Skirt and Scene

Photo by Kazuhito Tanaka

今井俊介
1978年、福井県に生まれる。2004年、武蔵野美術大学大学院造形研究科美術専攻油絵コース修了。主な個展に「第8回 shiseido art egg 今井俊介 range finder」(資生堂ギャラリー・東京、2014年)、「float」(HAGIWARA PROJECTS・東京、2017年)、「range finder」(Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim・ドイツ、2019年)、主なグループ展に「絵画の在りか」(東京オペラシティアートギャラリー・東京、2014年)、「絵画の現在」(府中市美術館・東京、2018年)などがある。東京都現代美術館、福井県立美術館に作品が収蔵されている。

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