May 5 – June 4, 2022
SOLO Exhibition
KAZU TSUTSUMI
LIFE THINKING
Welcome to my first solo exhibition here in JCAT.
In the form and colors that I have stripped down to the bare essentials, my works unfold a new outlook on the world that the combination of modern science and Eastern thoughts reached. It will be my pleasure if my works resonate with your heart as you live in the present toward the future.
Generation of Meanings
acrylic painting on canvas
16.15 x 16.15 inches
2022
$200 (without frame)
The title of this solo exhibition: LIFE THINKING, signifies a new outlook on the world that fuses two different ideas: Eastern thought, which regards human beings not as the rulers of nature but as part of it, and modern science, which introduced the understanding of our lives from the inside. Such an outlook embodies my idea of the growing importance of reflecting on ourselves as a body of life, in which we are rooted, amid this time of hardship.
Chinese characters, signs, and figures are embedded in some parts of the works as motifs that carry meanings and information. Light-reflecting paints were applied to transform the work's expression in response to light.
KAZU TSUTSUMI is a painter who has studied engineering and science, and has experience in the research and development of technology and business. After studying the science of crystals at university, he has been interested in exploring the principles of form, and he began producing acrylic paintings around 2005, taking inspiration from his research.
Later, as he began his full-fledged artist activities, he realized that his life experiences had been related to this exploration, and decided to express the world that had come into view there.
He believes that the core of art is beauty. This is because beauty is not just superficially sophisticated, but because he believes that there are multifaceted elements that point in the direction in which “life” should go.The belief at the basis of his work is to make these diverse beauties visible.
