The Luf Gallery will be holding the "LURF ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2024 - The Boundary of Sense and Memory."
"LURF ANNUAL EXHIBITION" is a series of exhibitions planned and curated by the Luf Gallery, held once a year to introduce the world of work by young artists who represent the next generation. This first exhibition will feature works by six artists with different perspectives and diverse expressions: Aimi Akiya, Ishiyama Miki, Shigihara Yuka, Nagano Aika, Matsuura Mioka, and Yoshida Shinpei.
The "boundary between sensation and memory" is not simply a physical line, but rather refers to the way our experiences, emotions, memories, and external elements intersect and influence each other, forming an ambiguous area. The artists participating in this exhibition also explore this boundary, visualizing its ambiguity through their works and offering viewers new scope for interpretation and contemplation. The exhibition will run from Friday, October 11, 2024 to Monday, November 11, 2024.
Exhibition overview
Group exhibition "LURF ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2024 - The Boundary of Sense and Memory"
Dates | Friday, October 11th, 2024 - Monday, November 11th, 2024 *Closed on Tuesday, October 22nd Venue | LURF GALLERY / Roof Gallery 2F
Time｜11:00 - 19:00
Address: Roob1, 28-13 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033
Admission | Free *Exhibited works will be for sale
Participating Artist Profiles
Akiya Aimi
2001 Born in Saitama Prefecture
2024 Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting major, 4th year student
Awards
2024
Selected for TURNER AWORD 2023 and won the Ueno Geiyu Award
Exhibition history
2022
"super-" (Gallery 33 north)
2024
"intro_1" (Daikanyama Hillside Forum)
"Undo and History" (Gallery Shiroku)
Selected for "Turner Award 2023 Winners Exhibition" (TURNER GALLERY)
"ART Students STARS vol.3" (+ART GALLERY)
"OPEN STUDIO Akiya Aimi / Kyo Kigitsu / Aya Takahashi" (ABAB Uenoshita Studio)
"Scrying in the Building" (TURNER GALLERY)
Taking the theme of image formation and perception in today's world where AI continues to develop, the artist creates paintings by using online images, photographs he has taken himself, and AI-generated images to create digital images, which he then hand-paints onto panel using tools such as an airbrush. The body images that appear throughout the paintings were created by the artist himself, combining body images generated by crossing multiple AI-generated models. In an age where social media such as Instagram has made it almost obligatory to commodify one's own body and life (to gain approval), by considering the desires and ideal body images that exist within this world together with AI, the artist explores the current state of humans, which exists at the border between reality and virtuality.
Instagram｜ @aaimi9719
Twitter(X)｜ @77777_ab
Miki Ishiyama
Born in Hokkaido, currently living in the Kanto region.
2022 Graduated from Tama Art University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major
2024: Graduated from the Master's program in Oil Painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts
Major Exhibitions
2024
"Intermission Vol.1: Deep in the mountains, like the name of your flower" (Gallery & Restaurant, backstage)
"A Place Where Senses Intersect" (JAPAN ART BRIDGE) , etc.
Interested in symbolic mysticism and human faith, he conducts creative research that redefines human emotions, a proposition that is essential to us in the modern world, through cultural anthropology. In recent years, he has been researching religious sites, cemeteries, festivals, and ethnic cultures in Eastern Europe, and has been considering the concept of "evil" through his work.
Instagram｜ @miki_ishiyama
Yuka Shigihara
2000 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture
2022 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Oil Painting, Oil Painting Major
2024 Graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Painting
Solo Exhibition
2024
"A Place of Certainty" (JINEN GALLERY/Tokyo)
He creates his paintings by first applying a base coat to leave traces of his actions, then evenly soaking in thinly dissolved oil paints. This process is inspired by heliography, the oldest photographic technique, and is based on the idea that "landscapes are found in light." The quietly soaked colors become light, reflecting the landscapes in his mind.
Instagram｜ @yk.shigihara
Aika Nagano |
1995 Born in Chiba Prefecture
2022 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Oil Painting
2024 Completed the 4th Laboratory of Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
The infinite space of "ma" is considered finite.
In Japanese painting, the composition of the picture plane places importance on the "space" between the figure and the white space, but in his own work he regards the space between the white space as light, and focuses on the ground of the picture plane, that is, the "finite space." By giving a white ground as light to the infinite space that was originally untouched, he aimed to capture the artist's sense of flesh, including the subtleties of time, humidity, seasons, etc. Rather than leaving the space and distance between things as they are on the canvas, by painting in white the space that at first glance seems infinite is illuminated by light and transformed into something finite.
The light of the ground influences the figure, and the relationship between the two becomes richer, expressing the lingering impression of space harmonizing with the object.
Instagram｜ @aika_nagano
Mioka Matsuura |
2001 Born in Tokyo
2020 Enrolled in the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tama Art University, majoring in Oil Painting
Awards
2020
FACE2021 Selected
2021
Shell Art Award 2021 Yuasa Eboshi Jury Award
2022
Idemitsu Art Award 2022 Student Special Award
CHANG TING GALLERY exhibition 2022 Grand Prize
2023
Selected for the Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition (first prize candidate)
GEISAI#22&classic Takano Aya Award
Solo Exhibition
2023
“Une Tae” (CHANGTING GALLERY)
"The scene of beautiful blossoms" (Hidari Zingaro)
"wsiw¿" (Room_A)
Main exhibition history
2021
Public Exhibition "FACE 2021" (SOMPO Museum of Art)
Two-person exhibition "New Type" (space33)
Group exhibition "generic angels" (private)
Group exhibition "nature X unnatural" (Room_412)
Group exhibition "Blue Period x ArtSticker 3rd Period" (hotel koe tokyo)
Public exhibition "Shell Art Award Exhibition 2022" (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
2022
Group exhibition "treatment" (Opaltimes)
Group exhibition "grid" (biscuit gallery)
Art Fair "MEET YOUR ART FEATIVAL 2022" (Ebisu Garden Place)
Group exhibition "Watering the Shadows" (DOMICILE TOKYO)
Group exhibition "familiar faces" (Mini Galerie Rotterdam)
Public exhibition “Idemitsu art award 2022” (National Art Center, Tokyo)
Group exhibition "Big Dance" (R for D, matter)
Open exhibition "Changting gallery exhibition 2022" (Changting Gallery)
2023
Group exhibition "6drawings" (biscuit gallery)
Art Fair "Art Fair Tokyo 2023" (Tokyo International Forum)
Open Exhibition "Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition 2023" (Ueno Royal Museum)
Public exhibition "GEISAI#22 & classic" (Tokyo Big Sight)
2024
Group exhibition "People and Still Life" (Gallery Koyanagi)
He uses a variety of media, including flat and three-dimensional works, to create unique artistic expressions.
Instagram｜ ＠______nnnn5
Shimpei Yoshida
1992 Born in Nara Prefecture
2014 Graduated from Kyoto University of Arts (formerly Kyoto University of Art and Design) Western Painting Course
Solo Exhibition
2019
"There was a silent night on my side" (FRISE/Hamburg)
2021
"That star at night is closer than you think" (keiokairai gallery / Kyoto)
"Blick der Imagination - Imaginary Gaze" (Mikiko Sato gallery/Hamburg)
2022
"For example, it is the wind against your cheek." (GALLERY crossing/Gifu)
"An unforgettable room" (YOD gallery/Osaka)
"Unreadable Letter" (myheirloom/Tokyo)
2023
"Absence of bedroom" (GALLERY crossing / Gifu)
2024
"Our silence" (Kyoto Okazaki Tsutaya Bookstore/Kyoto)
Group Exhibition
2023
"Impercentible Portraits" (Chiso Gallery/Kyoto)
“The absent room” aTartch (TARTCH 苆萆Art/Taiwan)
2024
"TRANSIENT ENCOUNTER" (GALLERY crossing/Gifu)
"Group Exhibition" (Taka Ishii Gallery/Maebashi)
Residence
2018
FRISE (Hamburg)
Art Fair
2022
Art Miami 2022 (YODgallery / Miami)
He is currently based in Tokyo and primarily works in painting. In 2018, he participated in an artist-in-residence program at the German artist-run space FRISE. He primarily creates portrait series based on found photographs, as well as installation works inspired by his own personal experiences.
Instagram｜ ＠peyysd
Sales of exhibited works
■ Exhibited works
Sales will begin at 11:00 on Friday, October 11, 2024 at the LURF GALLERY venue.
*Depending on the pre-sale situation, sales of some works may end before the event begins.
*If applications are accepted online, we will announce it on the LURF GALLERY website or social media.