Tokyo

Etsutomu Kashihara

2024/7/6–8/8

Support: galerie 16

Tokyo Gallery+BTAP is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Etsutomu Kashihara starting Saturday, July 6.

Etsutomu Kashihara was born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture in 1941 and graduated from the Department of Painting at Tama Art University in 1965. He studied under Yoshishige Saito and participated in exhibitions such as Tricks and Vision (Stolen Eyes) (Tokyo Gallery and Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1968), curated by Yusuke Nakahara and Junzo Ishiko, and the São Paulo Biennale in 1973. His representative works include the Silencer series (1967-68), which deals with the problem of perspective, What is Mr. X? (1968-69), a collaborative work with Hiroo Koizumi and Kinzo Maekawa, and My Methods Inspired by Marilyn (1973), which features portraits of Marilyn Monroe as a motif.

Kashihara's activities span a wide range, including writing exhibition reviews and producing picture books. Notable solo exhibitions include The Deconstruction of the "I": An Experiment by Kashihara Etsutomu (The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2012). His works are included in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and the Takamatsu Art Museum.

From early in his university years, Kashihara became interested in perspective, creating works with a figurative tendency that he called "reversed perspective" (1961-62). In these works, he incorporated the parallel and vertical perspectives found in Japanese and Oriental art, instead of the Western perspective, exploring the sense of depth that is unique to painting. He went on to limit his motif to boxes to investigate the theme of perspective further, producing the Silent Box and To Horizon series (1963-65). Later, in the Silencer series (1968), he reexamined visual perception through the effect of making a flat surface appear three-dimensional using perspective. The Tricks and Vision (Stolen Eyes) exhibition, where the Silencer series was displayed, was an event that symbolized the era's interest in "seeing" and the illusions that are inherent to it.

This exhibition will display representative works from the Silent Box, To Horizon, and Silencer series, providing a comprehensive overview of Kashihara's interests in the 1960s. We sincerely look forward to your visit.

WORKS

Title
To Horizon (1)
Year
1963
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
72.7 x 90.9 cm
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Title
Silent Box (1)
Year
1963
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
72.7 x 60.6 cm
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Title
Silent Box (2)
Year
1963
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
72.7 x 60.6 cm
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Title
To Horizon (2)
Year
1964
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
90.9 x 60.6 cm
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Title
Blue Memory
Year
1966
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
162.1 x 130.3 cm
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Title
Silent Box (3)
Year
1963
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
90.9 × 72.7 cm
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Title
The Distant Reconnaissance (2)
Year
1966
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
162.1 x 130.3 cm
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Title
Blue Awakening
Year
1966
Material
Oil on canvas
Size
162.1 x 130.3 cm
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Title
Silencer 68-12
Year
1968
Material
Watercolor, canvas
Size
72.7 x 60.6 cm(For each piece)
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Title
The Last of Silencer (1)
Year
1969
Material
Watercolor, canvas
Size
162.1 x 130.3 cm
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Title
Silencer 67-1
Year
1967
Material
Oil on canvas, panel
Size
182.0 × 190.0 cm
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Title
Silencer 68-14
Year
1968
Material
Watercolor, canvas
Size
73 × 60.5 cm
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Title
Silencer 67-10
Year
1967
Material
Watercolor, canvas
Size
130.3 x 162.1 cm
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Title
Silencer 68-3
Year
1968
Material
Watercolor, canvas
Size
162.1 × 130.3 cm
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Title
Silencer67-4(in reversed relief)
Year
1967
Material
Watercolor, plywood board, canvas
Size
72.5 × 91.0 cm
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