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Hiroshi Nomura- RUINDAKU/KUDANIRU
2025/5/17 Sat - 6/29 Sun
May 17 to June 29, 2025 Sunday
Wednesdays to Sundays 1pm to 6pm *Closed at 17:30 on June 14th due to gallery event.
Closed on Mondays to Tuesdays and National Holidays
Wednesdays to Sundays 1pm to 6pm *Closed at 17:30 on June 14th due to gallery event.
Closed on Mondays to Tuesdays and National Holidays
Opening Reception: 2025年5月17日（土）18:00-20:00
Introduction
POETIC SCAPE is pleased to present RUINDAKU/KUDANIRU, Hiroshi Nomura’s 12th solo exhibition, open from May 17 to June 29, 2025 at POETIC SCAPE. This exhibition is the latest installment in the ongoing KUDAN series, which began in 2022.
While using a variety of media, Nomura has long pursued an expression that questions both the medium and the motif it conveys. KUDAN is a series that personifies the concept of something “shared among people, yet ultimately ambiguous”, as when we say "that matter" or "that thing" in conversations using the mythical prophetic beast Kudan from the Edo period as a starting point.
In this exhibition, Nomura deconstructs the KUDAN motif and reimagines it as landscapes that hover between the figurative and the abstract. Through the resonance of multiple paintings, the artist seeks to summon a latent image of KUDAN.
In conjunction with his 2022 solo exhibition, Nomura remarked: “There’s that vague ‘KUDAN’- the thing everyone seems to understand when talking about it, yet no one really does. And that fuzzy KUDAN tends to take on a life of its own.”
Sometimes appearing with clear form, other times quietly blending into the fabric of our everyday lives, KUDAN slips between presence and absence. In a world transformed by the rapid evolution of AI, its shifting nature may well reflect a landscape where “truth” and “ambiguity” coexist in a delicate, shimmering tension.
While using a variety of media, Nomura has long pursued an expression that questions both the medium and the motif it conveys. KUDAN is a series that personifies the concept of something “shared among people, yet ultimately ambiguous”, as when we say "that matter" or "that thing" in conversations using the mythical prophetic beast Kudan from the Edo period as a starting point.
In this exhibition, Nomura deconstructs the KUDAN motif and reimagines it as landscapes that hover between the figurative and the abstract. Through the resonance of multiple paintings, the artist seeks to summon a latent image of KUDAN.
In conjunction with his 2022 solo exhibition, Nomura remarked: “There’s that vague ‘KUDAN’- the thing everyone seems to understand when talking about it, yet no one really does. And that fuzzy KUDAN tends to take on a life of its own.”
Sometimes appearing with clear form, other times quietly blending into the fabric of our everyday lives, KUDAN slips between presence and absence. In a world transformed by the rapid evolution of AI, its shifting nature may well reflect a landscape where “truth” and “ambiguity” coexist in a delicate, shimmering tension.
Event
Gallery Talk: Hiroshi Nomura in conversation with Taro Amano (Chief Curator of Opera City Art Gallery)
June 14th, 2025, Saturday 6pm to 7:30pm
POETIC SCAPE
Reservations required, Limited to 20 attendees
1,500 JPY (Includes a mini-party following the talk)
POETIC SCAPE
Reservations required, Limited to 20 attendees
1,500 JPY (Includes a mini-party following the talk)
Profile
- Hiroshi Nomura
Completed a graduate degree in oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1995. Since his student years, he has continued to present works that cross media, with photography at the core of his practice.
In 2018, he published CAMERAer, a comic book exploring “theory of photography” through stories about photographs and cameras.
The 2019 exhibition “A Dark but Bright Room of CAMERAer” (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino), curated with Nomura as guest curator and featuring the Yokohama City collection of cameras and photographs, drew wide attention and subsequently traveled to the A4 Art Museum in Chengdu, China, later that year.
Major solo exhibitions include “THE GENESIS OF THE EXDORA WORLD” (Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, 1997), “Landmark Products Exhibition” (LOGOS GALLERY, Tokyo, 2008), and “Merandi” (POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo, 2020).
International exhibitions include PHOTOESPAÑA 2012 Asia Serendipity (Spain, 2012) and Belfast Photo Festival (Northern Ireland, 2019), among many others.
Notable publications include EYES (Akakasha, 2007) and Slash (N/T WORKS, 2010).
Awards include the 3rd (1992) and 5th (1993) New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Awards (Canon), and the 31st Society of Photography Award (2019).
In 2018, he published CAMERAer, a comic book exploring “theory of photography” through stories about photographs and cameras.
The 2019 exhibition “A Dark but Bright Room of CAMERAer” (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino), curated with Nomura as guest curator and featuring the Yokohama City collection of cameras and photographs, drew wide attention and subsequently traveled to the A4 Art Museum in Chengdu, China, later that year.
Major solo exhibitions include “THE GENESIS OF THE EXDORA WORLD” (Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, 1997), “Landmark Products Exhibition” (LOGOS GALLERY, Tokyo, 2008), and “Merandi” (POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo, 2020).
International exhibitions include PHOTOESPAÑA 2012 Asia Serendipity (Spain, 2012) and Belfast Photo Festival (Northern Ireland, 2019), among many others.
Notable publications include EYES (Akakasha, 2007) and Slash (N/T WORKS, 2010).
Awards include the 3rd (1992) and 5th (1993) New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Awards (Canon), and the 31st Society of Photography Award (2019).
