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Private View – To Look at the Fire by Toshiaki Hicosaka

May 15, 2017 by Editor Leave a Comment

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When:
May 30, 2017 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
2017-05-30T18:00:00+01:00
2017-05-30T20:00:00+01:00
Where:
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
London NW1
UK
Cost:
Free
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Private View - To Look at the Fire by Toshiaki Hicosaka @ Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation | England | United Kingdom

…they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave…
[Socrates in dialogue with Glaucon]
– Plato, The Republic 380 BCE

The first London solo exhibition of the artist Toshiaki Hicosaka invites us to reflect on the world through fire: the driver of evolution, life, comfort and violence. From ocean to fire, his immersive installations of painting have embraced elements of the everyday. He perceives them as a medium that unravels our changing perception on the lived temporalities of the past and present.
Fire has mesmerised scientists, artists, and philosophers who sought to understand our relationship to the world. In France, 1826, the glaring sunlight was the catalyst for the inventor Nicéphore Niépce’s creation of photography, driven by his desire to draw without using his own hands. In Japan, in 1872, people were impressed by the brightness of imported British gas lamps, exclaiming “This is civilization..!” Nowadays, digital imagery of fire adorns the fireplaces of households, supplementing the warmth felt in our imagination. These instances show how our understanding of this universal natural phenomenon has shifted with our comprehension of the physical world throughout human history.
Here, fire reveals itself to viewers as a medium of perceptual relations. Through this new body of work by the artist, viewers are invited to reflect on the social and cultural environment they live within.

The exhibition is curated by Eiko Honda.
With thanks to the Zabludowicz Collection for the equipment support.
Sponsored by Shiseido group.

Toshiaki Hicosaka (born Aichi Prefecture, 1983) is a painter who currently lives and works in Kyoto. He is a part-time lecturer at Kyoto University of Art and Design and also at Kurashiki University of Science and Art.
Hicosaka has hosted solo exhibitions at Aishonanzuka (2016, Hong Kong); Aisho Miura Arts (2013, Tokyo); Ohara Museum of Art (2011, Okayama); and Shiseido Gallery (2008, Tokyo). Selected group exhibitions include: egØ – Re-examining the Self, punto (2014, Kyoto); New Phases in Contemporary Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (2012, Hyogo); TRANS COMPLEX – The painting in the Age of Information Technology, Kyoto Art Center (2011, Kyoto); and MOT annual 2008 Unravelling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art (2008, Tokyo). Hicosaka has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2009) and the Pola Art Foundation (2014).

Address: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation; 13/14 Cornwall Terrace (Outer Circle); London NW1 4QP.
Exhibition dates:31 May 2017 to 10 July 2017 (from Monday -Friday 9:30am-5pm).

Bon Fire_03 [detail], 2017, Print and Colored Pencil on Canvas © Toshiaki Hicosaka

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