Furukawa Museum of Art Special Exhibition ""Kimura Mitsuhiro Japanese Painting Exhibition: My Own Thoughts - As I Please""

Japanese painter Kimura Mitsuhiro is a representative Japanese painter in the Tokai region, with the Nitten Exhibition as his base of operations. This exhibition is Kimura Mitsuhiro's third solo exhibition at the Furukawa Museum of Art, and will look back on the origins of his artistic career while showcasing his current state of mind.
Currently active as a leading figure in the Tokai region, Kimura Mitsuhiro painted portraits in the early stages of his career, with works such as ""Pierrot"" and ""Life,"" which won special prizes at the Nitten Exhibition. However, he later began to paint groups of people. From this time on, he began to focus on the nature behind the figures, and instead of ""adding"" the background to the figures, he began to seek ""subtracting"" expressions, extracting what he found moving from the completed landscape created by nature. And so the landscape painter Kimura Mitsuhiro was born. For a while, he produced colorful landscape works, but gradually he moved into an abstract world, as if peering into the inner world of his soul. Recently, he has been producing abstract landscape works using foil.
At the root of these works are the beautiful landscapes of various lands, such as the sea, mountains, waterfalls, and marshes that Kimura has encountered so far. And no matter what landscape he paints, the works he creates are also in the state of mind of ``My actions are as my artistic spirit desires.'' In addition, the annex, the Tamesaburo Memorial Museum, will exhibit new works by Kimura Mitsuhiro depicting beautiful flowers and landscapes in the sukiya architecture of the early Showa period, titled ``Happy Thoughts and Drawings - Flowers and Landscapes, Kimura Mitsuhiro Japanese Painting Exhibition.'' This is the second time that the entire Kimura Memorial Museum has been used for an exhibition. The previous exhibition was titled ``Sumi-yu - Kimura Mitsuhiro Playing with Ink'' (2022), and featured ink paintings that focused on abstract expression. It seems that this type of ink painting expression has influenced Kimura's subsequent works.
This time, we will return from abstraction to concreteness. Although the works are not as large as the works exhibited at the Nitten Exhibition in the museum, there will be a line-up of slightly smaller flower and landscape works that match the sukiya architecture of the Tamesaburo Memorial Museum. Though the size may be small, Kimura's thoughts are the same. His works, which depict landscapes he believes to be beautiful from the heart, capture the heart as ""a landscape I once saw."" Furthermore, the flowers and beautiful Japanese landscapes depicted by Kimura resonate with the design of sukiya architecture and gardens, soothing the soul of the viewer.
Please enjoy the charm of Kimura Mitsuhiro, who is always seeking new ways of expressing himself, through both the Furukawa Museum of Art and the Annex Tamezaburo Memorial Museum.