Futaka Ryuma “Spectrum of Vivid Moments to see the color in the light” will be held from April 22nd (Friday)

"More Than Meets the Eye" 2022 Oil on canvas 130.0 × 194.0cm PhotoKATO ken

The first solo exhibition in Japan in four years by Fumika Ryu, who is known as a "color writer".

At Pola Museum Annex (Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo), an exhibition "Spectrum of Vivid Moments that sees colors in the light" will be held in 2022. It will be held from 22nd (Friday) to 29th May (Sunday).

"More Than Meets the Eye" 2022 Oil on canvas 130.0 × 194.0cm PhotoKATO ken

The colorful paintings of the style called "color writer" have vivid yet pale colors, and create a unique texture in which transparency and shadows overlap. In recent years, in a solo exhibition at the Pola Museum of Art Atrium Gallery in 2018, I created a work that interpreted and reconstructed the impressionist paintings in the Pola Museum of Art, and while carefully re-experiencing the colors of traditional paintings, As a new interpretation and reconstruction, I am working on a series of paintings, "Color Traces," in which multiple layers of color are applied.

Among them, this exhibition will showcase the new works of the "Women's Writer's Traces" series, which was announced at the "Reconstruction Re Construction" exhibition at the Nerima Art Museum in 2020. The trend is that modern female writers who have aimed to be painters in the past give up their production in order to prioritize their homes, and even if they continue to produce, they have few opportunities to play an active role because they are women. Has something in common with modern women. I thought. Imagine what kind of activities they would have done as writers if they were living in the present and future, and revisited the female and writer's life in Japan with history. , It is a work created from the desire to connect it to the future. This is the first solo exhibition in Japan in four years, and about 13 works including this "Color Series of Female Artists" and new works will be exhibited.

Color traces: Yukitsada Matsubayashi "Yukisada Gafu" 2022 Oil on canvas 21.1 × 33.3cm

Exhibition overview
Exhibition name: Fumika Ryu, "Spectrum of Vivid Moments that sees colors in the light"
Date: April 22, 2022 (Friday) -May 29, 2022 (Sunday) * Open all year round: 11:00 – 19:00 (Admission is until 18:30)
Admission: Free Place: POLA Museum Annex (3rd floor, POLA Ginza Building, 1-7-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061)
Access: Immediately from Exit 7 of Tokyo Metro Ginza 1-chome Station / 6 minutes walk from Exit A9 of Tokyo Metro Ginza Station Main event: Paula Orbis Holdings Co., Ltd. Cooperation: Yuka Tsuruno Gallery
URL: http://www.po-holdings.co.jp/m-annex/
* Contents are subject to change due to various circumstances. Please check the latest information on the gallery website before visiting.

"Implication" 2022 Oil on canvas 130.0 × 194.0cm PhotoKATO ken

� Writer's statement ∥

I draw in natural light.

To find a color, you need the sunshine, which is soft and illuminates every corner, not the strong artificial light.

Under strong light, everything becomes bright. At the same time, there are some that become shadows and disappear.
Things that have disappeared in the structure of society, things that we have pretended not to see.
Strong artificial light has also created shadows.

Under the natural light, I feel in myself an ambiguous eye that captures transitions and subtleties. Ambiguity is sometimes a drawback,
It is also regarded as the power to feel the diverse and deep light that cannot be seen with strong light.

For example, the light that makes you feel alive.
The light that my father, who survived the war and survived as a sculptor, died a few years ago was intense.
In this pandemic, the world was shining a light to live uniformly.

And the powerful light of the works of the artists who produced while being suppressed by the "femininity" created by Japanese culture.

Finding such light, receiving it, and drawing the various colors that can be seen under the light as "living colors".
See the color in the light.

Why is Snow White 2022 Oil on canvas 72.7 × 72.7cm

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Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1975. Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Department of Painting, Department of Western Painting 2001 Tokyo Wonderwall Jury Chairman's Award 2002 Agency for Cultural Affairs Emerging Artist Overseas Trainee (staying in NY)
Frank Stella Studio Intern 2004 Pola Art Foundation Overseas Trainee (staying in NY / Turkey)
2013 Gakushuin Women's University Visiting Researcher 2018 CS Design Award Winner (2020)

[Major solo exhibition]
2021 "Spectrum of Vivid Moments" Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo / Takahashi City Nariwa Museum, Okayama 2020 "In Between" Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC
2018 "Tracing the Colors" Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa "The Colors Have Gone Through" Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo 2016 "Kakugumu" Galerie Tokyo Yumanite, Tokyo "Wraparound" Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC
2015 "Ichiyo" Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo 2014 "Line of Sight" Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NYC
2013 "Visible Lines" Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
"Colorless and White" Gakushuin Women's University Cultural Exchange Gallery, Tokyo 2012 Tenmaya Okayama Store, Okayama 2011 Galerie Petit Bois, Osaka Tenmaya Takamatsu Store, Kagawa 2010 "Yuyu" Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo "Uki" Yuka Contemporary, Tokyo 2008 " "Fusion" Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo "Tsuna" PANTALOON, Osaka 2006 Mitsukoshi Takamatsu store, Kagawa (1999)
2005 Gairin-dong Gallery, Aichi (1999)
"Clue" Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo Kocaeli Prefectural Museum of Art, Turkey 2004 "10301" Edobori Gallery, Osaka (2002, 1998)
2003 "Wardrobe" Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NYC
2002 "Tansu" Galerie Tokyo Umanite, Tokyo 2001 Tokyo Wonder Site, Opening Exhibition, Tokyo 2000 Tokyo Wonder Wall, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo 1999 Sano Gallery, Kagawa

[Main group exhibition]
2020 "Joshibi University of Art and Design 120th Anniversary Exhibition -PROMISING-" Nihonbashi Takashimaya SC, Tokyo "Purple Trunk Midoriha" Meiji Jingu Museum, Tokyo
"Re Construction" Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo 2019 "Oita Art Festival 2019" Kaiyu Theater SPIRAL "" J: COM Holt Hall Oita "Big Hug Transformation" Galerie 5, Paris 2016 "Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.05" Takamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Kagawa 2015 "Hugging Paintings" Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo 2014 "THE MIRROR" Nagoya Chamber of Commerce, Tokyo 2013 "If There is Art II" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo 2011 30th Sompo Japan Art Foundation Selection Encouragement Exhibition, Sompo Japan Togo Seijo Museum, Tokyo (2008)
2010 "Tokyo Wonder Wall 2000-2009 10 years!" Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo "DOMANI Tomorrow 2010" National Art Center, Tokyo 2009 "No Man's Land" Former French Embassy, Tokyo 2008 "Color Creation and Color Ideas" DIC Design Gallery, Tokyo 2007 "Love (?) Letter" Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Sanso Museum, Kyoto "land {e} scape" Onishi Gallery, NYC
2006 Perspective of Contemporary Art "VOCA 2006", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo POLA New Exhibition 2006 "Talkative Silence, Silence Speaking" Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo 2005 "The Project Diversity / Home Sweet Home" The Rongio Gallery, NYC
"Wearing art, taking off art / The Boundaries" ART ZONE, Kyoto 2004 "Travel" Exhibition, Uplink Gallery, Tokyo 2002 "Kokoro no Pan" Project, Turkey (5 cities tour from Izmit City Museum)
2000 Perspective of Contemporary Art "VOCA2000", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo 1999 NCAF Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya Citizen's Gallery 10th Yoshihara Hara Award Art Contest, Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center