LURF GALLERY will be hosting a group exhibition of works by talented artists entitled "CONCERTO II" on the second floor.
This is the second time the exhibition has been held, following the first in 2023, and will feature seven new artists. This group exhibition will focus on talented artists who are passionate about pure art while facing themselves, and who have their own unique expressions and worldviews.
This exhibition will bring together a total of 23 works, mainly new works by each artist.
Along with the beauty and energy of the works, you will feel the "life" and "soul" that breathes through them all, and the soloists, who usually perform independently, will perform a "concerto" in harmony and contrast. Please come and see. The exhibition will run from Saturday, December 21, 2024 to Monday, January 20, 2025.
■ Participating artists: Yukino Yamanaka / Aiku Kurotaki / Naho Tatsumi / Ryunosuke Okazaki / Thorben Eggers / cocoro nakaura / Sablo Mikawa
Exhibition overview
Group Exhibition "CONCERTO II"
Date: December 21, 2024 (Sat) - January 20, 2025 (Mon)
Closed | Monday, December 30, 2024 - Sunday, January 5, 2025 *Closed during the New Year holidays Venue | LURF GALLERY / Roof Gallery 2F
Time｜11:00 - 19:00
Address: Roob1, 28-13 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033
Admission: Free Organizer: LURF GALLERY
Cooperation｜AKIINOUE / CON_ / HIRO OKAMOTO / SOM GALLERY
Planning and curation | SUNNYES
*Exhibited works will be for sale.
Sales of exhibited works
Sales will begin at 11:00 on Saturday, December 21, 2024 at the LURF GALLERY venue. Online sales will not be available.
For customers who find it difficult to visit the venue <br>We also accept inquiries regarding purchasing works from customers who are unable to visit the venue.
If you are interested, please contact us via contact. Contact us here>> It has ended
*Depending on the pre-sale situation, sales of some works may end before the event begins.
Artist Profile
Yukino Yamanaka
He has focused on both the physical contours of humans and their phenomenal state, depicting amorphous, inhuman beings that squirm between them. Since his early days, he has consistently used human figures as a motif, and his style has shifted from concrete drawings to abstract works using random strokes. Blank spaces lacking information, like blown-out highlights, liquids flowing lazily between bodies, and egotistical expressions and poses reminiscent of selfies or artist photographs. Depicting these elements as if they are blending into the entire canvas, he captures the process of transformation from "I" to "something," revealing us as incomplete beings that are breaking away from our traditional image of humanity.
Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1999
Graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School in 2023. Currently based in Tokyo and Kanagawa.
Instagram｜ @yukino_yamanaka
Aiku Kurotaki
Kurotaki focuses on the shape of textiles, where the intersecting fibers create a three-dimensional structure, and creates three-dimensional works using hand-crafted combinations of warp and weft threads.
Born in 2000
Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Design, Textile Design in 2022
[Major Exhibitions]
2024 "From 0 to 1" (SOM GALLERY/Tokyo)
"POND" (PARCO MUSEUM/Tokyo), etc.
Instagram｜ @aikur0
Nao Tatsumi
Using landscapes collected from street corners and back alleys around the world as motifs while traveling virtually on Map, he finds aesthetic value in the accidental phenomena generated in digital space and creates unique landscape paintings by overlaying his own errors on them. His works have been exhibited at numerous exhibitions both in Japan and overseas, and he also works on a wide range of projects including advertising creatives and murals for restaurants and hotels.
Born in Fukushima Prefecture, based in Yokohama. Graduated from the School of Architecture and Design, University of Tsukuba.
[Major Exhibitions]
2024 "Blur" (AaP/roidworksgallery/Tokyo)
"Traces of shifting dust" (SOM GALLERY/Tokyo), etc.
Instagram｜ @nao_tatsumi
Ryunosuke Okazaki |
Okazaki has been active in the fashion scene as a designer, holding runway shows in September 2021 and March 2022 and being selected as a finalist for the LVMH Prize 2022. Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Okazaki creates with a sense of the history and nature of the city where he was born and raised. Okazaki says that for him, creating his works is similar to rituals and acts of prayer that pay homage to that history and nature. Okazaki's creative style, which is not bound by the frameworks of fashion or art, uncovers new possibilities for art in the contemporary era.
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1995
2021 Graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design
[Major solo exhibitions]
2023 "002" (THE FACE DAIKANYAMA/Tokyo)
2024 “Jomon Echoes in the Anthropocene Curated by AKIINOUE” (NANZUKA 2G/Tokyo)
[Major group exhibitions]
2022 "A Love for Couture: Timeless Fashion Craftsmanship" (K11 MUSEA/Hong Kong)
2023 “Emotional Clothing Old” (MODERN ART MUSEUM SHANGHAI/Shanghai)
2024 "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Instagram｜ @ryunosuke.okazaki
Thorben Eggers Picture Thorben Eggers
Combining traditional oil painting techniques with digital image processing, he creates new visual effects through the use of AI to manipulate photographs. Interested in the process by which images are transformed into abstract forms through errors, he attempts to achieve realistic yet surrealistic expressions. Working with simulated spaces and landscapes edited using 3D programs, he also takes inspiration from advertising portraits and magazines, challenging the concepts of painting and simulation in the digital age.
Born in Flensburg, Germany in 1988. Currently based in Hamburg and Tokyo.
[Major solo exhibitions]
2021 "Separate Reality" (Coelner Zimmer/Düsseldorf)
2022 "Digital Sehnsucht" (Kulturstiftung Storman - Galerie im Marstall/Ahrensburg)
2023 "Vorspiegelungen" (Nina Mielcarczyk/Leipzig)
[Major group exhibitions]
2024 "Times takes a cigarette" (Ruttkowski;68/Cologne)
"TRANSFORMERS" (HENKYO/Tokyo)
"Tauschend echt" (Kunstmuseum Heidenheim)
【collection】
Julia Stoschek (Düsseldorf, Berlin)
Instagram | @thorbeneggers
cocoro nakaura
Born in Tokyo, he mainly works in oil and acrylic paintings, and creates portraits and stains depicting the changing lifestyles and landscapes of modern society.
Born in Tokyo in 1998
2017 Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan High School of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts
Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts, Painting major, 2021
2023 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University Graduate School of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts
[Major Exhibitions]
2023 "ZOKEI Exhibition" ZOKEI Award Winner (Tokyo Zokei University)
"Shin Contemporary Art Exhibition" (Oto Gallery)
“EYES Portrait show by Emerging Artists” (MEDEL GALLERY SHU)
“Born New Art Vol.3” (+ART GALLERY)
"Tagboat Art Fair" (tagboat)
“WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.26” (WHAT CAFE)
"MOVEMENT vol.1" (GINZA SIX Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO)
“One FACE 2023” (roidworksgallery)
"IGNITION Japan-Taiwan Exhibition by ArtSticker" (333 GALLERY)
"ART SESSION by Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore" (Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore)
"Z" (SH GALLERY)
"SHIBUYA STYLE vol.17" (Seibu Shibuya Store B Building 8th floor Art Gallery/Alternative Space)
"My First Art Exhibition Vol.2" (Isetan Shinjuku)
2024 “Expression Vol.3” (Nagatei GALLERY)
"Blue Period x ArtSticker Vol.1" (Art, Rice Vermicelli, or White Rice)
"Earth and Lens" Three-person Exhibition (Empathy Gallery x ALPHA ET OMEGA)
"ART ART KOBE -ArtSticker SELECTION-" (Daimaru Kobe store)
"faces" (GALLERY CURU×SUNNYES/Bangkok)
"MOVEMENT vol.2" (GINZA SIX Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO), etc.
[Solo Exhibition]
2022 “Own influence” (GINZA SIX Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO)
"solo spread" (LIGHT HOUSE GALLERY)
2023 "ART FAIR TOKYO 2023" (Tokyo International Forum)
"SS / Screen Scenery" (GINZA SIX Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO)
"views" (HIRO OKAMOTO)
Instagram｜ @cocoro0820
Sablo Mikawa
Sablo learned oil painting in elementary school. Influenced by early modern and modern painting, he paints contemporary things, emotions, and stories using expansive expressions and homages. The faces and bodies of the people Sablo paints are given grotesque effects, emphasizing their distinct characters, inner selves, and silhouettes, which are different from those of living people. These effects come from Sablo's deepest love of Western painting, film, music, and manga, which he samples and incorporates into his works in order to express the things and emotions that resonate with the eyes of modern people.
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1987
2014 Started working as a painter
[Major solo exhibitions]
2017 "Hard liner" (Alt_Medium/Tokyo)
2019 "UNCOUTH FELLOW" (THE blank GALLERY/Tokyo)
2021 "JOURNEY" (BAF STUDIO TOKYO/Tokyo)
2022 "Oilpaintings" (OIL by Bijutsu Techo Gallery/Tokyo)
2023 "Reel To Reel" (Moosey Art/London)
"I Will Survive" (FOAM CONTEMPORARY Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore/Tokyo)
2024 "Bitter With the Sweet" (HIRO OKAMOTO/Tokyo) etc.
Instagram｜ ＠sablomikawa1987