Gallery Collaborations

Artcourt Gallery will collaborate with Ulterior Gallery to introduce works by four multigenerational Japanese artists: Seishu Niihira (b.1988, lives and works in Osaka), Akane Saijo (b.1989, lives and works in Kyoto), Gaku Tsutaja (b.1974, lives and works in New York), and Minoru Yoshida (1935-2010). Each of them examine and reinterpret themes related to the deep human desire for communication, the physicality of the objects, and the reinvestigation of technology and history.

Ulterior will present both Minoru Yoshida and Gaku Tsutaja. Yoshida’s rare 1960s abstract paintings, produced right before he joined Gutai Art Association will be on view, along with video documentation of Yoshida’s performances created in New York in the 1970s. Tsutaja, who had a critically acclaimed solo exhibition at Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels this summer, will exhibit an allegorical mixed-media painting in addition to other related works based on her continuing research on the history of nuclear energy and weaponry.

Artcourt will bring Seishu Niihira and Akane Saijo to the ACK 2022. Niihira will debut paintings from his new series, Diffraction. An artist from the digital native generation, Niihira creates figurative paintings that evolve from the realities of daily life utilizing the human capacity for perception and optic principles —the complexity of the context expands with his innovative use of color. Akane Saijo devotes her attention to the innate structure of ceramics, such as the ways in which the strong physicality of the hard exterior surfaces belie the hollow insides, building ambivalent narratives through her abstract forms.