AISHONANZUKA presents the first solo exhibition by Toshiaki Hicosaka in Hong Kong , “Touching/Touched by" from 24th September to 21st October 2016.

Hicosaka was born in Aichi in 1983, graduated from the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Information Design. The selected exhibition includes "MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, "Shiseido art egg 2 Toshiaki Hicosaka", Shiseido Gallery in 2008, "ARKO2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka", OHARA Museum of Art in 2009, "No Man's Land – Nouvelle Me ?tamorphose du Lieu" The Embassy in France and Rule-Rale-Rele" AISHO MIURA ARTS in 2010, "TRANS COMPLEX – The painting in the Age of Information Technology" Kyoto Art Center in 2011 and the most recent exhibition is "New Phases in Contemporary Painting" Hyogo prefectural museum of art in 2012.

Recently, Hicosaka attended The Pola Art Foundation Fellowships and overseas England and Iceland. He also enthusiastically participated artists oriented exhibitions, "eg? - Re-examining the Self" at punto, 2014, and “yabu no naka” Kyoto University Arts & Design, 2015.

Hicosaka considers the relationship between human and images through workshops, video, photography and paintings, and in his perspectives he tries to find out what is the meaning of communication in paintings and its purpose. His behaviors in communication in paintings, which he rethink the Modernism theory that purely pursuit what was really paintings meant for and he experiments the relationship between human and images and it’ s materiality and blankness. Hicosaka works with many different materials, especially in paintings; he tries to give ideas to audience what can be touch and touched by pictures that meaning included in this exhibition title. Tracing picture images in “Vision” and “Touch” through his experimentation, emerging close to unlimited results, old masters created master pieces with physicality or world used to be much simpler and easier to see the future, thus his works will give the world much more controllable.

Recently, Hicosaka attended the NES Artist Residence in Iceland created the work called “Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves” . In this his newest work, Hicosaka had an idea from the story called “An anecdote of misunderstanding” written by a Japanese author Joseph Heco in end of Edo period. In part of the book described the castaway story written by an American sailor who just wrote many notes in cursive, which Joseph Heco misunderstood and thought they were beautiful sketches of waves.

Soon after Hicosaka read the book, Hicosaka felt that building images of touch/touched by gave him a hint to build the better relation through the world. He clearly visualized that difficulty of our communication and changing images as if the shape waves changes its form and everyday news. Yet, his work warns us that massive images sometime makes us blind, and like waves that comes back and forth, never repeats the same shapes, perhaps, Hicosaka sees the infinite possibilities in waves.

In this his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, it showcases his major artworks that have shown in museums as well as his most recent paintings “Newspaper of Wave Sketch” in which he created in London and Iceland.

About the exhibition

Dates: Sep 24, 2016 - Oct 22, 2016

Venue: AISHONANZUKA

Courtesy of the artist and AISHONANZUKA, for further information please visit www.aishonanzuka.com.