EXhiBition
AWT FOCUS
GREGORY OLYMPIO, Le Plancher des Vaches, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 35.5 x 45.5 x 3.5 cm. © Gregory Olympio, courtesy the artist and blank projects, Cape Town.
MAI TAKESHITA, After the Dinner, 2025. Dyed mud pigment, mineral pigment, color pencil, and nikawa (animal glue) on cotton canvas, 32 x 32 cm. Courtesy the artist and Alison Bradley Projects, New York.
DIANA CEPLEANU, The Flower of the Bride, 1998. Oil on wooden panel, collage, 61 x 60 x 1.8 cm. Photo by Trevor Good. Courtesy the artist and Plan B Cluj, Berlin.
Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Kyobashi
THE QUIET
Curated by
Augusto Arbizo
Yutaka Kikutake Gallery
For “The Quiet,” Augusto Arbizo assembles works by six Japanese and international artists into an intergenerational conversation on painting practices that offer a space for quiet concentration amid today’s accelerated contemporary visual culture.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
“The Quiet” brings three international artists into dialogue with three Japanese painters to stage an intergenerational conversation centered on painting practices that privilege observation, restraint, and stillness.
Working across distinct geographies and sensibilities, the artists foreground the primary act of looking as both method and subject in practicing a deliberate, sustained attentiveness to humble subjects. In doing so, they turn inward, seeking something felt rather than asserted. Figuration, still life, and landscape—though formally restrained and deceptively simple—carry the weight of contemplation. Their images of the everyday, ranging from faces and interiors to natural environments, possess a hushed presence, inviting viewers to look carefully and patiently, as though anticipating that the images might recede or dissolve.
Amid today’s heightened and accelerated visual culture, “The Quiet” offers a space for slowing down, or perhaps even tuning out, allowing for an encounter defined by quiet concentration.
—August Arbizo
ARTISTS
- Nate Antolik
- Diana Cepleanu
- Nobuya Hitsuda
- Yuki Katsura
- Gregory Olympio
- Mai Takeshita
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Yutaka Kikutake Gallery
Yutaka Kikutake Gallery opened in Roppongi in 2015 and now has a second space in Kyobashi. The gallery is committed to adding to the diversity of contemporary art by supporting innovative modes of expression. Its exhibition program features Japanese and international artists who work in a broad range of mediums, from painting and photography to sculpture and film.