Yoshihiko Kitano

1960 Born in Osaka, Japan

1980 Graduated from Osaka University of Art

Solo Exhibitions

1983 Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan (’84, ’85, ‘86)

1986 ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan (’87, ’88, ’89, ’90, ’91)

1989  Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (’91)

1991 Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan (’95, ’99)

  Gallery Yamaguchi warehouse, Osaka, Japan

1995 Gallery IkedaBijyutsu , Tokyo, Japan

2001  Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka

 Contemporary Art Space, Osaka (CASO) space B, Osaka, Japan

2003 Concept Space, Shibukawa Gunma, Japan

2005 Chef- doevre, Osaka, Japan

2007 Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-Bau, Osaka, Japan

 NSA noborimachi space of art, Hiroshima, Japan

2008  GALERIA DE ARTE amaga, Avilles, Spain

2011 GALERIA Guillermina Caicoya, Oviedo, Spain

2012  Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-Bau, Osaka, Japan

2017

 Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-Bau, Osaka, Japan

ART KAOHSIUNG, The PIER-2 ART CENTER, B-16 Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-Bau, Taiwan

2018 Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Group Exhibitions

1992 ESPACE 446, Osaka, Japan

 NICAF, Gallery Yamaguchi, Yokohama, Japan

1993 NCAF, Gallery Yamaguchi, Nagoya, Japan

1994 Aug 8th, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1995 Mito Annual ’95 Discover Paintings, Works & Language, Mito, Japan

 Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaragi, Japan

1998 The Vision Contemporary Art 1998(VOCA ’98), The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1999 “Yoshihiko Kitano/Kan Masuda,” The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

2005 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa), Hiromoto Lithograph Works Shop, Aichi, Japan

 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa), Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan

 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa), The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

2006 The Play of Plan, Gunma Prefectural Women’s University, Gunma, Japan

 Traveling Museum, Park House, Dusseldorf, Germany

 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa) Gallery 21＋Yo, Tokyo, Japan

 Traveling Museum, London, England

2007 Kunst imm, Dialog-Teil2, Germany

 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa), Concept Space & AIS, Gunma, Japan

 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa), Concept Space, Bordeaux, France

 Traveling Museum, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, France

 ART @ AGNES, The Agunes Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

2008 The Play of Plan, AIS, Gunma, Japan

2009 Traveling Museum, TENT Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2010 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa), Rinko-kaku Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

 MINI TENT Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2011 Autumn Exhibiiton - new works by 14 artists, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-Bau, Osaka

 SUKIMONO-TACHI (Way Since Rin-Pa), Rinko-kaku Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

 TEXTUR, Ozaki Kimono store Art Space grid, Tottori, Japan

2013 50 years of a Japanese painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

2014 The travel which starts from Wakayama, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

 Jum Koshino/Yoshihiko Kitano, Nnoborimachi space of art, Hiroshima, Japan

2015 Art OSAKA 2015, Japanese Abstraction Paintings, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan

2016 NEW SPACE with THE ARTISTS and ART, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-Bau, Osaka, Japan

2017 INTERACTION OF COLOR, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-Bau, Osaka, Japan

色彩：感知與疊印

Color and Aspect

展出藝術家｜北野吉彥 Artist｜YOSHIHIKO KITANO

開幕時間｜2018/02/02(五) 6:00pm Opening｜2018/02/02(Fri.) 6:00pm

展覽時間｜2018/02/02(五) - 2018/03/04(日) Duration｜2018/02/02(Fri.)- 2018/03/04 (Sun.)

新苑藝術將以日本極簡藝術家北野吉彥個展Color and Aspect揭開2018年序幕，展覽日期為2018年2月2日至3月4日，開幕酒會將定於2月2日晚間六點。本次展覽為北野吉彥台北首次個展，展出系列〈Japanese Old Color Series〉發想自1980年由Shogakukan Inc.出版的《Old Japan Color》一書，受到書中各個帶有懷舊感的色彩名稱啟發，北野吉彥開始嘗試混色，調出與各個名稱相稱的色調，並以之為所調出的色彩命名，進而製作成單色作品。

北野吉彥自小便對色彩有著濃厚興趣，「我常盯著天空，幻想天空變成蓬鬆柔軟的毯子，也常在想河流表面會不會因著河底的石塊改變樣貌」。 這樣的興致在北野藝術生涯開啟後，獲得了切實的實踐。原為作家的北野吉彥，受八零年代所掀起的當代藝術浪潮Kansai New Wave影響，開始投入藝術創作。與當時風行的裝置藝術、新媒體藝術不同，北野於創作之初便以單色畫為主題，三十年來不間斷地創作單色畫，將色彩質地與形式表現地淋漓盡致。

本次展出系列〈Japanese Old Color Series〉中，北野將厚重的油彩多次塗抹於帆布立方體表面，對北野而言，反覆塗刷的色彩另有一種難以言喻的意象，其中囊括著某種得以感動人心的東西。單色作品看似單調無聲，實則能夠在強調物質本體的同時，巧妙地隱去創作者所遺留的痕跡。經過反覆塗抹的帆布表面所形成的特殊的凹凸起皺，使得畫布上的色彩隨著布面起伏和光線游移而產生了變化，就如同陽光灑落樹梢時片片葉脈間的不同色澤。北野透過層層堆疊的手法，將色彩的豐富維度和筆觸質地結合，更完整地呈現色彩之美。

北野吉彥畢業於大阪藝術大學，曾於西班牙、東京、大阪、群馬等地舉辦個展，也曾受邀至瑞士、法國、德國、東京、大阪等地參與聯展。

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色彩：感知與疊印

Color and Aspect

展出藝術家｜北野吉彥 Artist｜YOSHIHIKO KITANO

開幕時間｜2018/02/02(五) 6:00pm Opening｜2018/02/02(Fri.) 6:00pm

展覽時間｜2018/02/02(五) - 2018/03/04(日) Duration｜2018/02/02(Fri.)- 2018/03/04 (Sun.)

Galerie Grand Siècle is going to present a solo exhibition of Japanese minimalist artist Yoshihiko Kitano, Color Aspect as a prelude to 2018 from February 2nd to March 4th. Reception is settled at 6 p.m., February 2nd. Taken as Kitano’s first solo exhibition in Taipei, Color and Aspect is featured in the series “Japanese Old Color Series,” which stems from Old Japan Color, a book published by Shogakukan Inc. Inspired by nostalgia names of color in the book, Kitano started experimenting color mixture to make the tincture commensurate with it, moreover, name after it. Progressively, he utilizes the tincture to create monochromatic paintings.

Since childhood Kitano has a strong interest in hues. “I often stared at the sky, wondering the possibility for it to transform into a paddy blanket, and I thought whether the surface of river would change its texture for the stones lied in the riverbed.” This kind of interest has been put into practice after Kitano began his career as an artist. Originally a writer, Kitano began to invest in art by the influence of Kansai New Wave, a contemporary art trend in the 1980s. Different from the popular installation art and new media art at the time, Kitano began with the series of monochrome painting at the beginning of his creation. For thirty years, he incessantly creates monochromatic paintings, presenting texture and form of colors into the extreme.

In Japanese Old Color Series, Kitano smears the heavy oil on the surface of canvas cubes several times as he believes it brings an indescribable image which embraces something affects the heart of people. Although monochrome works seem monotonous, it emphasizes thing-in-itself while hiding traces left by creators subtly. The corrugated wrinkles specially formed by smears canvas over and over, enable color on the canvas change by the fluctuation of the surface and the flow of light, as the scene when sunshine spills over tips of a tree, contributing to the different luster in leaves. Through the techniques of applying hues layers by layers, Kitano combines rich aspects of colors and texture of stroke, presenting the beauty of colors to the extreme.

Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Yoshihiko Kitano has hold solo exhibitions in Spain, Tokyo, Osaka, Gunma, etc., also have been invited to attend group exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Germany, Tokyo, Osaka, etc.

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擁有著顏色和不同構成的主題，在我的繪畫中，無論具體或抽象，都只使用一種顏色。

從我小的時候開始，我就會幻想天空變成柔軟蓬鬆的草原…

我也很喜歡觀察流水，當河水川流而過，河流的表面會因著底層的石塊和結構而展現不同樣貌…

在我開始對藝術產生強烈的興趣後，我常盯著畫作某一部分或雕像看上很久很久，我猜想，藝術家的美感就是匯聚在此。

從我感受到帆布背面支架的重要性開始，我便試圖創作三維作品，並在近期的作品中加入玻璃和鋁盤。

所有的顏色都有著相同價值。而如何顏色的選用則總是取決於我當天的狀態。

在「古日本色彩」，這本由小學館於1980年所出版的書中，我在色彩的命名中感受到強烈的懷舊感，並開始以這些色彩的名字為題，調出與之相應的顏色。

在帆布上重複塗抹著、擁有不同色調的顏色，擁有著某些得以影響人心的力量。

北野吉彥

Paintings - Enjoying the color and the aspect of the various motifs - regardless of figurative or abstract with using one color.

From my early age I wanted to see a rich paddy field from the sky…

Along with the river streaming its surface is changing the appearance due to the sinking rocks and its structures. I liked it….

After my becoming to strongly conscious of art, I have been keeping on to stare the parts of the painting and the sculpture, I think that the artist's aesthetic sense is gathered there.

From the time I felt the importance of the sides of the canvas as the support, I attempted 3-dimensional deformation, and after that the recent work has reached the use of glass and aluminum plate.

All colors have the same value. The color determination is always decided by my ambiance on the day.

In 1980 the book of titled “Old Japanese Color” was published by Shogakukan Inc. I felt nostalgia in the color name and tried to mixing color and to make same color with reference of the book and then added the titled with the color name.

The color with aspects that have been repeatedly painted many times has something that affects the heart of people.

Translated by Takashi Yamaguchi