TERAO Katsuhiro

Born in 1960, Terao worked as a welder for twenty years at his father's steel fabrication shop before becoming an artist. In a powerful reflection of his experience, the motifs of all his works are steel. His finely detailed drawings are based on places he has been to, and also on places or scenes that he has seen on TV or elsewhere. These plans are filled with lines representing steel frame columns, marked with welding symbols. For this exhibition, in addition to large works that he has exhibited on other occasions, he is presenting two new works, 2.7 metres tall and 4.3 metres wide, each of which took about half a year to produce. His works have been exhibited at galleries in New York and in many exhibitions at art museums in Japan. Last year, he held a solo exhibition at GALLERY NYH in Nagoya.

Exposition　ink on canvas 2008
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SHINKI Tomoyuki

Born in 1982, Shinki is an avid fan of combat sports. Techniques and moves from boxing, wrestling and other martial arts frequently appear in his works. Through calm and meticulous observation, he subtly delineates the profiles of the muscular, brutal fighters to accurately depict their moves as they engage and grapple. The artist’s black line drawings resonate with the bright colouring applied with coloured pencils, rendering large numbers of moves through boldly deformed depictions that communicate the dynamic nature of the matches.
Like Terao Katsuhiro, Shinki Tomoyuki, has shown his work in many exhibitions as an Atelier Incurve artist. In 2010, he presented a solo exhibition entitled Draws and Flows at Gallery Incurve Kyoto.

Left straight　ink and colour pencil on paper 2008
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Rush　ink and colour pencil on paper 2011
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YUMOTO Mitsuo

YUMOTO Mitsuo

Born in 1978, Yumoto finds motifs in familiar things such as buildings, ships, bugs, and birds. With penetrating insight, he directly captures the characteristics of these motifs, transferring them to the paper or other surface. Colour fields neatly produced with coloured pencils give the impression of a tropical nation, but at the same time they seem to exude a heart-warming air, familiar from the past, much like collages made with torn scraps of coloured paper. Many of his works are based on actual buildings or scenes, but they are curiously transformed to construct a strange world that could be a stage where something is about to happen, or an aspect of the event as it happens. Like Terao and Shinki, Yumoto’s work is highly rated at the international level.

New construction Santorini Island colour pencil on paper2007
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Territorial battle between chocolate gourami, pacific white-sided dolphin and coelacanth　colour pencil on paper 2009
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Atelier Incurve

Atelier Incurve, located in Hirano-ku, Osaka, was founded in 2002 as an art studio and project office for base for Social Welfare Foundation SOOHKAI. It provides an environment appropriate for the artistic activities of artists with intellectual impairment and supports the artists as they establish themselves in the art world. Presently, twenty-eight artists make use of these services. In 2005, their artworks were first introduced at an art fair in New York. Since then, their artworks have been frequently displayed at many museums and galleries in Japan and around the world. In 2010, Gallery Incurve Kyoto was established, specialising in the artists of Atelier Incurve.

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