Galerie Sho Contemporary Art | upcoming Exhibition | TANKA

“The focus on our mundane material experiences in our civilized metropolitan where unidentifiable space has been found.” TANKA

We are pleased to present an artist, TANKA in the exhibition “The Passport To The Plant Earth.” Since TANKA graduated Tokyo Zoukei University PhD in 2009, he has been continuing his creative practice as a photographer. The theme of his practice has developed his interest in capturing hidden space in everyday life. His works arrest a familiar moment with analytical and sensitive compositions to create a deep and contrastive world. Objects as well as time transform themselves in TANKA’s works, and it results in the images where multiple periods of time inhabit as creating a theatrical effect that navigates viewers to what is happening on the stage. Viewers are able to question a validation of the space existence and the time lapse with the sense of sentiment or déjà vu that linger in those images. For TANKA, what lies between reality and fiction could be his true realism.

He has no axis when create.

Most of artists establish or try to found their own styles, stances for their creation. That is the axis for each artists. His way of drawing is like a circumference of a circle, and make people think of an ambiguous form toward an axis. He is interested in various things. Even when he notices something randomly, his imagination switches quickly, just like a distorted knot appears on a circle as a starting point, making a new world with infinite possibilities.
Everything starts from my misunderstandings, everything!”, he laughs brightly when giving an example from an image he discovered. Perhaps, it might be correct; in other words, his creation is endowed with a tremendous freedom. As the development of innocence from his creation and his occasional new tries, viewers' consciousnesses are tossed around artlessly.

Masaharu Makuuchi
(excerpt from article 2010 vol.26 P12-13)

This is TANKA’s first solo exhibition to present his works in a variety of forms from oil and acrylic paintings, drawing to installations. You will be challenged to decode the messages and stories hidden the works.

Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, 2010

article 2010 vol.26 P12-13 Download