Synopsis:

MISAKO AND ROSEN (Tokyo) and ROH (Jakarta) are pleased to announce our jointly produced exhibition, Let's See レッツ・シー, to be presented at ArtSpace@HeluTrans, Singapore. Offering a cross-section of contemporary Japanese painting, Let's See レッツ・シー simultaneously proposes a model of collaboration between galleries within Asia, with an example of the potential for commercial gallery spaces to utilize, cooperatively, their resources and flexibility towards the presentation of exhibitions of cultural significance.

Let's See レッツ・シーfeatures the work of 18 individual painters and one collective of 2 artists (Twin Boat Songs; Yu Nishimura + Kazuyuki Takezaki). The exhibition takes as foundational the work of Tokyo-based Hiroshi Sugito (b. 1970) and spans multiple generations with the youngest artists, Emi Mizukami and Nanami Hori, both being born in the 1990s. Let's See レッツ・シー follows by one decade the groundbreaking exhibition The Way of Painting organized by curator Motoaki Hori for Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2014.

The exhibition will include a site-specific work by artist Shimon Minamikawa, a series of artist talks, and a catalogue with essays by both independent curator Motoaki Hori as well as Gabriel Ritter, Director of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Art, Design & Architecture Museum and Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture.

28 September - 27 October 2024
ArtSpace @ HeluTrans
39 Keppel Road
#01-05 Distripark
Singapore 089065

Program

Artist Talk
Nanami Hori, Emi Mizukami, & Hiroshi Sugito, moderated by Misako Rosen
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 15:00–16:00
ArtSpace @ Helutrans, Singapore

Public Opening
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 17:00–20:00
ArtSpace @ Helutrans, Singapore

Exhibition Tour
with Artists and Gallerists
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 15:00–16:00
ArtSpace @ Helutrans, Singapore
With special thanks to cooperating colleagues: Tomio Koyama Gallery, ANOMALY, KAYOKOYUKI, 4649, XYZ collective, ShugoArts, Hagiwara Projects, Nonaka-Hill, & Crèvecoeur

Let's See レッツ・シー reflects upon the enduring legacy and memory of Kazuyuki Takezaki
(b. 1976-2024).