Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store will be hosting "Side Effects: Kisho Kakutani & Reo Kikuchi Two-Person Exhibition" at "Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO," an art gallery operated by the company on the 5th floor of GINZA SIX, exploring the uncertainty of contemporary visual experiences and the possibilities of new perceptions that emerge beyond them.
Date: August 27th (Thursday) – September 2nd (Wednesday), 2026
Opening hours: 10:30 AM – 8:30 PM (closing at 6:00 PM on the last day)
We are surrounded by countless images every day, and our perceptions and memories of them are constantly being updated. In this exhibition, Kisho Kakutani stimulates the viewer's imagination through paintings that blur images based on smartphone photographs. Meanwhile, Reo Kikuchi repeats and reconstructs existing painting images, questioning the frameworks of originality and reproduction, and visual perception. "Side Effects" is an exhibition that explores the uncertainty of seeing and the possibilities of new perceptions and cognitions that arise from it, through the different methods of these two artists.
Kisho Kakutani, "Scrawl #11," S100 size, acrylic paint on canvas.
Reo Kikuchi, "Copy and Paste 2604," S6 size, acrylic paint on canvas.
■Author Profile
■Kishō Kakutani
Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture in 1993.
2022 Completed the Doctoral Program in Japanese Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Obtained Doctorate (Fine Arts)
Appeared on BS Fuji's "The Night Before the Breakthrough – Next Generation Artists – #399" in 2023. Exhibited artwork at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Osaka "Spectre" launch event.
Solo Exhibition
2025 Realm of Dispersal/Whitestone Gallery(Taipei)
FOG/MU GALLERY (Tokyo)
The Ambiguity of Memory /JING YI YUAN HUI ART GALLERY(Beijing)
2023 White Night / Courtyard HIROO (Tokyo)
A mediator and a protective wall / Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore & Shikisai-sha (Tokyo)
■ Reo Kikuchi
2014: Enrolled in the Japanese Painting Major, Department of Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts.
Completed doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2023, and obtained a PhD.
Solo Exhibition
2026 Surfaces/TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY (Tokyo)
2024 MITSUKOSHI ART WEEK / Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (Tokyo)
A Long Walk / Umikaze Art Shop (Mie Prefecture)
This is not "" / Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore (Tokyo)
What's Spotlight? / Art ID (Tokyo)
[2023 multiple/repetition]/Gallery Bi no Ya (Tokyo)
MITSUKOSHI ART WEEK / Fukuoka Mitsukoshi (Fukuoka)
■Exhibition overview
Side Effects: A Two-Person Exhibition by Kisho Kakutani and Reo Kikuchi Dates: August 27th (Thu) – September 2nd (Wed), 2026
Opening hours: 10:30 AM – 8:30 PM *Closing time on the last day is 6:00 PM Venue: Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO
GINZA SIX 5th Floor, 6-10-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
https://artglorieux.jp/
Admission fee: Free
About Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO
Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO is a gallery operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store Co., Ltd.
*Further details will be posted on our website. Please check back for updates.
*Event and exhibition details may be changed or canceled due to various circumstances.
[From the press release of Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store Co., Ltd.]
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