KH Gallery Ginza would like to announce a new feature exhibition entitled “Hiroko Koshino Red Impulse”.
Among Koshino’s diverse paintings, this collection brings together works featuring the most eye-catching color, red. Powerful lines drawn out by plastering, staining and dripping paint. Over the years, Koshino has tackled “red” art with all her heart, soul and might. In each piece, you can sense a vitality that exceeds the boundaries of color. “Red” does not only represent strong emotion but also symbolizes the sun or fire; it reaches out to awaken one’s primordial instincts. It is the color to which Koshino has turned in order to depict this untamable impulse experienced by all living things.
This exhibition features a selection of red works created over the past five years. It includes a large-scale abstract piece fiercely splashed with paint which was drawn immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, as well as an oil painting symbolically depicting the hands of those praying for peace, inspired by the Myanmar democratic movement leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Other works such as an extravagant flower made using relief pattern, or a bird fluttering for freedom are also part of the grand collection. This exhibition challenges decrypting Koshino’s message from a new angle by bringing together the “reds” selected from different years.
These works of “red”, the color of the struggle for creation, ask viewers what it means to “live”. Art is a testament to the life of the expresser, Hiroko Koshino, and its energy will continue to give courage to others for years to come. Please enjoy near-octogenarian Koshino’s fiery and alluring exhibition at KH Gallery Ginza.