Imamura Ryosuke: In Reverberation and White Space
Information
- Period
- April 3 (Fri.) –June 20 (Sat.), 2026
- Closed
- 2nd and 4th Saturdays, Sundays, holidays
- Admission
- Free (entrance to the separate Toko Gallery requires a fee)
About the Exhibition
We are pleased to present "In Reverberation and White Space,” Ryosuke Imamura's first solo exhibition at a museum.
Imamura is an artist who creates diverse forms of expression ー including installations, sculptures, paintings, and video works ー using everyday objects as motifs inspired by daily events and memories.
After completing the Master Course for Sculpture in Fine Art Division at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2007, he has continued to exhibit both domestically and internationally, based in Kyoto. His work has been featured in “The 5th Shiseido Art Egg" exhibition (2011, winner of the Shiseido Art Egg Award), Yokohama Triennale 2011 “OUR MAGIC HOUR - How Much of the World Can We Know?”(2011), a residency in Warsaw, Poland funded by the Pola Art Foundation (2016), and the Kyoto City New Artist Award (2020).
The defining feature of Imamura’s work lies in spaces that sharpen our senses, hidden within everyday life, through subtle devices incorporated into the environment and the art itself. Through faint light, sound, scent, and color, viewers are reminded of sensations and memories hidden in daily existence. These spaces evoke a poetic sentiment, in which even the architecture and scenery of the exhibition venue become part of the artwork, quietly blurring the boundaries between expression and the everyday, making it difficult to determine what is the exhibition and what is the artwork.
This exhibition centers around a new installation that combines the sound of a piano being tuned, performed in Taichikan concert hall, with environmental sounds recorded elsewhere, and also features objects, video, and drawings. Just as the reverberations of fading sounds and the empty spaces where music and words linger, we invite you to take your time to enjoy the reverberations and blank spaces that lie between the everyday and the exhibition.
Left Image
The Light on a Boundary (sunlight at my studio in May 2019 and May 2020)
2019–2021
Discarded materials found in front of the studio, LED, recorded light data, electronic circuit, battery
Photo: KIDO Tamotsu
Right Image
Site & Art 01 Ryosuke Imamura “Will the Snow Pile Up or Melt?”
Installation view at Art Lab Aichi (Aichi, Japan), 2018.1.6～2.18