Jérôme Sans . Yukimasa Ida, Panta-Rhei - For as long as the world turns

Yukimasa Ida, Panta-Rhei - For as long as the world turns
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

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Yukimasa Ida, "Panta-Rhei - For as long as the world turns",

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Curated by Jérôme Sans
From September 30th to December 3rd 2023

Yukimasa Ida presents his first monographic institutional exhibition, "Panta-Rhei - For as long as the world turns", curated by Jérôme Sans at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art in Japan, from September 30th 2023 to December 3rd 2023.

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Known for his paintings which explore the concept "Ichi-go Ichi-e", translated as "once in a lifetime encounter", Yukimasa Ida is one of the most renowned painters of the new generation of Japanese artists. Using and twisting his plastic vocabulary to create a total immersion into his world, the exhibition hijacks the traditional codes of scenography to celebrate the diversity of a compulsive, bounteous body of work. Encompassing both his abstract and figurative work, his paintings and his sculptures, as well as his large-scale and small-scale formats, the exhibition brings together all the elements of the artist’s language, allowing the visitor to truly penetrate and meander through his prolific oeuvre.

Yukimasa Ida’s obsessive, almost bulimic approach is in the likeness of today’s fluid, fast-paced, information-flooded world, in which the artist circulates freely through references and through time. Bridging abstract and figurative elements with ease, he explores the permeability of the border between the two, switching innately from his paintbrush to modelling clay, from portraits to landscapes. Making his way between the past, the present and the future, with the dexterity of the new generation, the Japanese artist thwarts any notion of style that would block him in a single image. Celebrating his broad and fluid approach, the exhibition thus brings to light his position as an artist of absolute freedom.

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“I believe that my work comes as a result of an act of seeking freedom. Whether figurative or abstract, I represent the state that is the most real to me on that day.” – Yukimasa Ida