Artist
Tabata produces paintings that incorporate kinetic elements, and video works which have been composed under painterly constraints. Notable works include “bee” (2006), a video work created from countless images of bees that the artist had drawn until the ink of his pen ran out, and the “one way or another” series comprised of drawings and oil paintings where a single motif is depicted across two separate support mediums and then “shifted” to meet their completion. Through such “shifts” between media and the very support medium, Tabata enable the various imagery contained within the subject before ones eyes to carefully emerge. Instead of converging a single thing and its surrounding traces into one, he presents a perspective that connect to their different means of presence and movement in the context of a time and space that could have simultaneously lapsed.
Tabata’s recent exhibitions include, “marmelo and the two sides,” Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo (2018), “one way or another,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo (2016), “Scape,” Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London (2015), and “trace of images,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo (2016).
He has participated in group exhibitions such as, “VOCA: The Vision of Contemporary Art 2018,” Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (2018), “Art Meets04: Kouichi Tabata / Saori Miyake,” Arts Maebashi, Gunma (2017), “Drawing Biennial 2015,” Drawing Room, London (2015), “Temporal Measures,” White Rainbow, London (2014), “THE ECHO –SPREADING OF LIGHT,” Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Germany (2013), “Trial Balloons,” Museo de Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain (2006), and “J’en rêve,” Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2005). Tabata’s works are included in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo), Toyota Art Collection (Aichi), and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo).
Gallery
In July 2015, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery opened its doors in Roppongi, Tokyo. As modern art finds increasingly diverse modes of presentation, the gallery serves to support artists who seek ever newer ways to express themselves, contributing to the growing heterogeneity. Since its opening, the gallery has been representing Japanese leading young artists who are internationally active such as Nerhol, Norimichi Hirakawa, Kouichi Tabata, and Erika Kobayashi, and has been holding about 10 exhibitions a year. Working with art curators and critics, the gallery has been devising projects from a critical point of view and regularly holds group exhibitions inviting artists from not only Japan but also all around the world. During the exhibition, the gallery invites curators and critics of the museum and artists to give lectures, to strive to deepen the significance of art of today together with visitors.
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Frame not only flatters the artwork and make it easier to decorate, but also helps protect the artwork.
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Frame Samples
Magnolia wood White
With natural texture
Magnolia wood Brown
With natural texture
Lacquer
White
White
No luster
Almost no natural texture
Almost no natural texture
Lacquer
Black
Black
No luster
Almost no natural texture
Almost no natural texture
Alder
Untreated wood with nature texture
Maple
Untreated wood with nature texture and harder than Alder
Framing Methods
Sample: A. Photography
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Photography/Paper Artworks
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Full-bleed framing without mat and the surface is laminated with acrylic.
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Canvas/Panel Artworks
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Mat
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Having a mat in between your artwork and frame will help to highlight the artwork by filling in the margins while also improving its preservability.
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