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GALLERIES
HIROSHI NOMURA, Murmuration II, 2026. Oil on canvas, 91 x 116.7 cm. Courtesy the artist.
HIROSHI NOMURA, “Kudan,” installation view, Poetic Scape, Tokyo, 2022. Photo by Tomoki Imai. © Hiroshi Nomura, courtesy Poetic Scape.
HIROSHI NOMURA: NANIGASHI MURMURATION
Hiroshi Nomura transforms everyday events and phenomena into icons which he then further reinterprets through photography and painting. In this exhibition, Nomura reimagines a bird well-known as a social media logo as a nanigashi or “certain someone.” Here, the icon is rendered in the form of a landscape painting. The artist states: “The bird . . . was blue until recently. It was fond of chirping and rarely remained silent. One day, however, it became a black bird. . . . Although its appearance has changed, it continues to chirp as before—perhaps even more insistently than in the past. . . . Its droppings, however, remain sky blue, said to be a lingering trace of its former life.”
POETIC SCAPE
Poetic Scape opened in Nakameguro in 2011 as a gallery specializing in photography. In recent years, its program has expanded to include works in other mediums. Combining the words “poetic” and “landscape,” the gallery name reflects the ambition to show visitors a new landscape that cannot be clearly defined by language but that artists have the ability to see. Affiliated artists include Daido Moriyama, Hiroshi Nomura, Sakiko Nomura, Tracy Templeton, Toshiya Watanabe, and Toshio Shibata. In addition to its exhibition space, Poetic Scape runs a small shop that sells artist books and texts on photographic theory.