TADA Tomomitsu Solo Exhibition Do these soulless, vacant puppets feel any disgrace or shame living in a world where they blindly accept information from corrupt, hollow shells of humans and, without even thinking for themselves, naively cause each other pain…☆ 卍
10:00am-6:00pm, April 28 — June 17, 2018/ admission free
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TADA Tomomitsu works in diverse mixed media, though his practice is rooted in drawing. Using oil colors, acrylic, pigments, ballpoint pen, colored pencils, pastels, and sprays, he creates images with many faces, from his delicate over-layering of lines and colors to bold, striking lines. Tada also incorporates language into his works. The shapes of his letters and the meanings behind the words repeatedly overlap and create distance, eventually leading the viewer to an image beyond shape and meaning. These works possess a tranquility that can lie beyond chaos and contradiction.
The title of this exhibition shows us the universality inherent in everything of this world while it also simultaneously seems to question how we humans should exist as people. In recent years, Tada has often presented paintings drawn on large panels, but in this exhibition he creates installation works that utilize the ACAC Gallery. In his works dwell both serenity and strength, leads his viewers to the edge of a world where anything is possible—and if they want to, lets them peer inside its abyss.
TADA Tomomitsu
1979 Borin in Hiroshima, Japan
2005 M.A., Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design
2005-2007 CCA Kitakyushu Research Program
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 “I can draw”, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “The moon light is strong”, project room SASAO, Akita, Japan
2010 “I, become a leopard at the end of autumn.”, Midori Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2010 “We love secret base!!! And marriages are made in heaven?”, Baikado, Osaka, Japan
2009 “THE KING IS HERE”, ZENSHI, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Simple is hard”, Babel, Trondheim, Norway
2008 “Light is getting weak”, ZENSHI, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “I know why a bird in a cage sings”, ZENSHI, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 “Aichi Triennale 2016 Rainbow Caravan” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2015 “gallery in gallery series #01 ARATANIURANO”konya-gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2014 “Summer and Painters”, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “VOCA 2014 The Vision of Contemporary Art”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Spring”, Baikado, Osaka, Japan
2012 “ASAI Yusuke×TADA Tomomitsu: Good Night for the World, Good Morning for Drawing”, Midori Art Center (MAC), Aomori, Japan
2011 “Homage TAKAKURA Ken”, Operation Table, Fukuoka, Japan
2011 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Hiromi Yoshii Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
The Good Are Not Creative, 2013, Oil, pigment, and acrylic on panel、200×360cm, photo:UENO Norihiro
Installation view in “We love secret base!!! And marriages are made in heaven?”, Baikado, 2010
Music, 2016, 240×360cm
Asylum (Dolphin House), 2014, 180×180 cm, Courtesy of URANO
Organized by Aomori Contemporary Art Centre [ACAC], Aomori Public University.
Sponsored by THE ASAHI SHIMBUN FOUNDATION
In Cooperation with URANO, AIRS