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EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa

EUGENE STUDIO / EUGENE KANGAWA

EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa: Power of Imagination Part 1/3 MAKI 2 June–5 August 2023 Tennoz, Tokyo
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MAKI Gallery is pleased to present EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa: Power of Imagination Part 1/3, a solo exhibition by EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa. The show takes place in MAKI Gallery and MAKI Collection at Tennoz I, Tokyo, with the addition of EUGENE STUDIO Atelier iii, the artist’s expansive atelier located in the outskirts of Tokyo, as a special venue. The first of a three-part, multi-year series titled Power of Imagination, this exhibition is an extensive exploration of the artist’s practice, featuring a wide range of new works as well as works on loan.

Born in the United States in 1989, Eugene Kangawa is an artist primarily known for his paintings and installations who has led a successful career in both Japan and abroad. Most notably, with his exhibition EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow, he became the youngest artist in history to receive a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a prestigious institution which has held retrospectives on the likes of Yayoi Kusama and Yoko Ono in the past. After the rainbow was incredibly well-received and made a powerful impact, as visitors waited for up to several hours to gain entry into the exhibition. All of the exhibited works, with the exception of those in the artist’s collection, were later acquired by various collections around the world. Power of Imagination is titled after one of the key concepts of After the rainbow. Through the cooperation of Kangawa’s many collectors, the exhibition’s multifaceted and multidimensional works lead us on a philosophical journey and continue to expand upon the experimental endeavors of the artist’s past shows.

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Installation Views

EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa, Left: Group portrait (Hitonoyo), 2021, oil painting on canvas with brush, 291.5 × 212 cm, Private collection, Center: Group portrait (Where are you?), 2021, oil painting on canvas with brush, 294 × 214 cm. Right: Group portrait (Rainbow), 2021, oil painting on canvas with brush, 244 × 184 cm, Private collection. All from the Rainbow Painting series.
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Born in the United States in 1989, Eugene Kangawa is an artist primarily known for his paintings and installations who has led a successful career in both Japan and abroad. Most notably, with his exhibition EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow, he became the youngest artist in history to receive a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a prestigious institution which has held retrospectives on the likes of Yayoi Kusama and Yoko Ono in the past. After the rainbow was incredibly well-received and made a powerful impact, as visitors waited for up to several hours to gain entry into the exhibition. All of the exhibited works, with the exception of those in the artist’s collection, were later acquired by various collections around the world. Power of Imagination is titled after one of the key concepts of After the rainbow. Through the cooperation of Kangawa’s many collectors, the exhibition’s multifaceted and multidimensional works lead us on a philosophical journey and continue to expand upon the experimental endeavors of the artist’s past shows.

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About the Gallery

MAKI Gallery was first established in Tokyo in 2003, with the aim of promoting works by seminal avant-garde Japanese artists of the 1950s-60s. The gallery has since gradually shifted its focus to working with emerging contemporary artists. After opening a location in the bustling, high-end shopping district of Omotesando in 2014, MAKI Gallery opened an expansive, museum-caliber space in the growing gallery hub of Tennoz in 2020. Across these two outposts, MAKI Gallery presents a broad range of works by internationally active artists, including Mungo Thomson, Miya Ando, Susumu Kamijo, and Marius Bercea, while also introducing younger Japanese artists, such as Anne Kagioka Rigoulet, Keisuke Tada, and Takuro Tamura, to a global audience. The gallery has also participated in various international art fairs such as Frieze New York, The Armory Show, Asia NOW, and West Bund Art & Design.

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