《urban life》 2016 acrylic on canvas 227.3×162 cmIxima graduated in 2003 from Musashino University of Fine Art with a BA in Oil Painting. Since 2006, he has been based in Fukuoka and is an emerging artist, working mainly on paintings, simultaneously developing live paintings and avant-garde performances. This is Ixima’s second solo show at Gallery Yamaki Fine Art and will introduce approximately 10 of his latest acrylic works, painted solidly in pop colors, based on his friends/acquaintances and surroundings. Throughout his career, Ixima has been focusing on painting portraits. His portraits consist of faces taken from found photographs selected randomly from the internet and books, thus are motifs of complete strangers. Working from such motifs which behold no connection and reality to himself, he has been experimenting vigorously how he can bring out the reality of existence. Ixima tells us that through this practice, what he wants to express has become clearer. As Ixima shares, “What I want to express, how to get inspired to do so and how to live my everyday life, has become the core of my works.”, he has come to paint, from inspirations collected from his everyday life, the crossing and come-and-go of the usual and the unusual, reality and fiction. 2 years has passed since his first solo exhibition at Gallery Yamaki Fine Art in 2014. Ixima states that “From the previous periods in which I was seeking to paint the existence of something, now I feel I am trying to capture the phenomenon that something exists.”
【Selected solo Exhibitions】
2023'Portraits of Ikaijin' Seiriki art museum, Fukuoka
2023'Nanger Catch and Release' Aesop, Fukuoka
2021coffee county, Fukuoka
2020'Graceful Diversity’ Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2017'New Works by K.Ixima,' Yamane Art Lab., Fukuoka
2017'Ixima Kuniyosi', sarasa design lab fukuoka, Fukuoka
2017'08:03' Somewhere in Fukuoka City
2016'Ixima Kuniyosi', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2015'New Works by K.Ixima,' Yamane Art Lab., Fukuoka
2014'PORTRAIT', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2014'Ixima Kuniyosi', Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo
2009'Invisible Medicine', Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo
2007'I cross the Sea', IAF Shop*, Fukuoka
1999'DOMORU Exhibition', cafe Sisa, Tokyo
【Selected Group Exhibitions】
2024'Achilles, the Tortoise, and the Lemming' operation table, Fukuoka
2023’Passage of Fictions and Realities’ Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2020’VOCA Exhibition 2020 Prospects for Contemporary Art’ Uenomori Museum of Art , Tokyo
2019’Otonai -Sound/Visit-’, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
2018’The Declaration of artistic Life’ , Kyushu Geibun-Kan
2017’Zu to Chi' , Hachiman-yu, Fukuoka
2016'BI NO KODO KYUSHU : Creator Archive', Museum of Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka
2015'N Collection: Ship of Theseus', Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima
2014'ESPRIT DIOR', Christan Dior, Tokyo
2013'Shigekiba Arte vol.6', SHIGEKIBA, Fukuoka
2011'Descend with Hole', OAP studio, Fukuoka
2008'Kanogoshima Making', Noko island coast, Fukuoka
【Artist Information】
Kuniyosi IXIMA
SessionSat. Sep 10, 2016 - Sat. Oct 8, 2016 Closed on Sundays and Mondays
Hours11:00－13:00 / 14:00－19:00
PlaceGallery Yamaki Fine Art
Venue3-9-5-2F Motomachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0022
ContactTEL: 078-391-1666 FAX : 078-391-1667 MAIL: info@gyfa.co.jp
AccessOne minute walk from Motomachi Station, West exit (JR/ Hanshin Line)
ChargeFree
