September 10 - November 5, 2016

* We are extending the exhibition date due to positive feedbacks.

Opening reception: Saturday, September 10 18:00 - 20:00

Yusuke ASAI (Born 1981, Tokyo) uses various materials. He collects soils and water from the local and creates “Mud painting”, pastes masking tapes like plants and draws, “masking plants” with pen. And he torches white road surface marking materials on the street, "the white line which becomes the plants”. He regardlessly paints outside or indoor. Recently, he gets attentions by rapidly introducing large-scale mud paintings at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Aomori Museum of Art, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum.

His significant solo exhibitions are, "Yusuke ASAI : Seeds of Imagination, Journey of Soil”(2015), The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan; “yamatane” (2014), Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA; "Countless Stories, Living Boldly, Repeat” (2012), ACAC Aomori, Japan.

He is currently participating in major group exhibitions, such as “All Living Things”(2016),Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan; “Aomori EARTH 2016: Roots and Routes”(2016), Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan; “Setouchi Triennale 2016 (Inujima)” (2016), Okayama, Japan.

Also participated in “HORIZON THAT APPEARS OUT OF THE SLEEPY WOODS”(2016), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England; and “CONSTELLATIONS: Practices for Connections/Discoveries” (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and more. He is young artist comes out big in the near future.

For this exhibition, he increases not only the conventional ground images of mountains and forest but also ground water (water veins) that springing out from the ground, he will express the richness and a connection of life. We look foward to your visit.