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Two Workings Turn Toward Integration From Confrontation |
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A lot of guides have been pointing out, "There are two confronted types in arts as organic and geometrical or as concreteness and abstract". These two contrasted types have been repeating the discord through the ages when either of them are more remarkable than the other side. For instance, Renaissance period that organic and concreteness ruled the age, and the 20th century that geometrical and abstraction ruled, oppositely. The base of painter Tadaaki Okada and sculpture Hikaru Yumura is the latter type either, that might be not irrelevant to the middle of 20th century, when they receiving the life. But yet we should note that they never swallow the type of the age, and not leave all of works to it.
The work of both has proven realistically. Moreover, their works seem even to contain the attention of skepticism to geometrical and abstract type which cover the age. It seems like they turn toward "One in the middle area" or "Dual one" between the two types, if I borrow the words from French novelist André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Okada's screen is often divided in the rectangle, which divided into geometrical area in a word. However, it is different from the search for the principle wholly-devoted to start all over making the structure appear by heat because of the light of the intellect. In the first place, paint in screen is not homogeneousness, and there are plural stains of infinite form and segments with different directions. Because his works summon a organic motion into screen, which missed in geometric and abstract type. A similar impression will be able to be received from the sculpture of Yumura made from granite.
It can be said that it will dodge purity which the type impose though it is geometrical and abstract based certainly. As Okada whisks off the gravity which follows around geometrical and abstract type with free interventions of stains and segments, Yumura calls an organic dynamism into works with two composition methods mainly. For one thing, it settled plural parts which cut and shifted subtlety. As another, it confronts a surface which polished like mirror and a cut surface which is baring a rugged and bumpy section. The form contains a witty, humorous and a little thrilling sign, and it exudes the feel of vitality. There is nothing except saying that the strangeness of the skill that knows the material of stone thoroughly is special. Probably, Okada and Yumura are both keep searching the integration of confronted two types without belonging to either of two types of the art, like putting the body on the beach. Haruo.Sanda |
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Tadaaki Okada |
Hikaru Yumura |
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1948 |
Born in Saitama Pref. |
1974 |
"L'espoir" (Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo 1976,1979) |
1975 |
Completed the graduate school of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts Ohashi Prize Award |
1982-1985 |
"ING-82" (Kinokuniya Gallery, Kamakura Gallery, Gallery 21, Tokyo) |
1983 |
Art Exhibition "North Kanto" (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art) |
1984 |
"Tadaaki Okada" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama) "Tadaaki Okada" (Gallery 21, Tokyo) |
1988 |
"Modern Art 120 Artists" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama) |
1989-2007 |
"Contemporary Art Festival" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama) |
1991-1995 |
"EXIT" (Gallery Center Point, Tokyo) |
1991 |
Makurazaki Biennale "Art of Wind" (Makurazaki,Kyushu) |
1994 |
62nd Dokuritsu Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Encouragement Prize Award |
1995-1999 |
"Tadaaki Okada" (Gallery Yaesu, Tokyo) |
1995 |
63rd Dokuritsu Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Dokuritsu Prize Award |
1996 |
64th Dokuritsu Exhibition (Member's recommendation) (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) |
1998 |
Exhibition of the Selected Contemporary Works |
1999-2008 |
Saisho'99 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama) |
1999 |
'99 KOREA JAPAN ART FESTIVAL (Seoul, Korea) |
2000-2008 |
"Tadaaki Okada" (Ginza Gallery Sumhole, Tokyo) |
2000 |
"ALL ARTS" (GALLERY UNICORN, Saitama) |
2001 |
"1st Contemporary Artists of JAPAN-BANGLADESH" (DHAKA Zanul Gallery TOKYO Cyuwa Gallery) |
2002-2006 |
"8 Eyes of Brand-new Artists" (Gallery Kaze, Tokyo) |
2002 |
"Viewpoint of 4 Artists" Yutaka Eda, Tadaaki Okada, Fumitoshi Shirono, Hisa Matsunaga (Ginza Gallery Sumhole, Tokyo)
"Collaboration of Noh Play and Modern Art" (Collaboration with Noh player Rokurou Umewaka) (Autun, France)(Autun, France)(Brussel, Belgium)(Alkmaar, Holland) Stay in France as Overseas artist dispatched by Agency for Cultural Affairs |
2008 |
"Poetic Sentiment of Black & White" (DOKA Contemporary Arts, Tokyo) |
2009 |
Exhibition "Harmony of Plane and Solid - Tadaaki Okada & Hikaru Yumura" at DOKA Contemporary Arts. |
Present |
Membr of Dokuristu Art Society Member of Artist federation, Japan Member of Artist Society, Saitama Pref. |
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1948 |
Born in Tottori Prefecture Japan. |
1971 |
Graduated Tokyo National College of Fine Art, Division of Sculpture. Studied at "Ecole des beaux-arts Paris".(-'72) |
1970 |
Solo Exhibition at Athenes Français. |
1971 |
Solo Exhibition at Tottori. |
1973 |
Solo Exhibition at Athenes Français. |
1974 |
Solo Exhibition at Sato Gallery, Tokyo. |
1975 |
The 30th Kodo Exhibition. (Every year submission since this year) |
1976 |
The 12th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan. Solo Exhibition at Sato Gallery. |
1977 |
The 13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan. |
1978 |
Solo Exhibition at Sato Gallery. |
1983 |
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo. The 10th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded Kobe Suma Detached Palace Garden Prize. |
1984 |
The 15th International Art Exhibition of Japan. |
1985 |
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Yamaguchi. The 4th Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Awarded the Superior Prize. The 11th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture. The 2nd Goverment Managed Showa Memorial Park Open-Air Exhibition. (continued submission in '86, '87) |
1986 |
The 5th Yasudakasai Art Fundation Encouragement Award Exhibition, Awarded Excellent Artist Prize. The 16th International Art Exhibition of Japan. '86 Grand Sculpture Exhibition, 10th Asian Games Art Festival in Seoul. The 10th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Suma Detached Palace Garden, Awarded Teiichi Hijikata Memorial Prize. |
1987 |
The 5th Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition, Awarded the Superior Prize. The 12th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Prize. Awarded the 15th Nagano Open-Air Sculpture Prize. |
1988 |
The 11th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Suma Detached Palace Garden, Awarded the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Prize. |
1989 |
"Imagine '89" in Los Angels. The 13th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded Ube Kosan Company Prize. |
1990 |
The 12th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Suma Detached Palace Garden. Solo Exhibition at Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo. |
1991 |
The 10th Yasuda Kasai Art Foundation Encouragement Award Exhibition, Awarded Silver Prize.
Participated at the 2nd International Stone Sculpture Symposium. The 14th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Awarded the Narional Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Prize, Awarded the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama Prize. |
1993 |
Awarded the 24th Nakahara Teijiro Excellence Prize. |
1994 |
The Exhibition of Sculpture's Drawing at Asahikawa City Museum. |
1999 |
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho, Tokyo. |
2000 |
Awarded the 5th Kurayoshi City Green Sculpture Prize. The 5th Exhibition of Green Sculpture Prize. |
2002 |
Sculpture Exhibition at Galerie Vromans, Amesterdam, Holland. Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho. |
2003 |
Solo Presentation at RAI Art Fair Amsterdam with Galerie Vromans. |
2004 |
Participation RAI Art Fair Amsterdam with Galerie Vromans. Solo Exhibition at Galerie Vromans, Amesterdam, Holland. Chinese-Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duoloun Museum of Modern Art. |
2005 |
Participation RAI Art Fair Amsterdam. Exhibition "Meeting Point Japan" in Leenwarden, Holland. Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho. |
2007 |
Exposition Galerie Moulin de l'eau, Bram, France. Convergence International Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery, India. |
2008 |
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Seiho. |
2009 |
Exhibition "Harmony of Plane and Solid - Tadaaki Okada & Hikaru Yumura" at DOKA Contemporary Arts. |
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