January 4 - 26, 2025
13:00-20:00
(Closed on Monday and Tuesday)
January 4, 18:00 - Opening reception
January 26, 18:00 - Closing party
Gallery10[TOH].
First space: Daiichi Silver Building 1F, 5-20-11 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Second space: Broadway Diner, 5-20-12 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku
Starting January 4, 2025, Garelly10[TOH] will host “Flowers and Muscles” by Takuto Kadokura and Akihito Nonoue.
Taikuto Kadokura graduated from Musashino Art University's Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Spatial Design, majoring in fashion. While working as a patterner at Comme des Garcons, he started showing his unique works on SNS and turned into an artist. Since his early days, he has used rich colors that evoke a sense of blessing, and his brush strokes are full and humorous. Even if he paints common motifs, he has a distinctive personality that is easily recognized at first glance. His experience in the fashion industry has had a strong influence on his work, which also includes criticism of society, such as his “new approach to masculinity.
Born in Chiba in 1984, Akihito Nonoue is a self-taught painter who received the Taro Okamoto Award at the 23rd Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art in 2020.
Using not only painting but also sculpture, drawing, animation, installation, and a wide range of other media, he continues to paint the world of his own dreams and imagination day and night as if he were breathing, unrivaled by any other artist in his menacing productivity.
The inspiration for their work never ceases to flow, and the stories they continue to tell capture the imagination of the viewer.
Flowers and muscles are recurring motifs in their work.
Kadokura's words, “Our muscles may remain beautiful even when they are no longer necessary,” contain a vision of an ideal world that lightly transcends gender, and give a new perspective to Nonogami's stories of muscular men.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)