Takuya Ikezaki “SEA MAP: Receive and Release”

Top image: Parallel Patchwork by Family in NYC (Marine Compass)、2019、Found fabric, shopping bag, found quilt、54x 54cm

2024.6. 25 Tue – 7.14 Sun
Venue: CADAN YURAKUCHO
Address: 1F Kokusai Building, 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11-19pm, Sat, Sun, national holidays 11-17pm
Closed: Mon (or the following weekday if the Monday is a public holiday)

Reception Party 06.25. Tue. 17:00-19:00

Space L: Shiho Kagabu “The Blessed Land of ‘Kotodama (言霊) ‘ーThe dream of Amaterasu, Helios and Kāne”by KAYOKOYUKI
Space S: Zuzanna Bartoszek  ‘Show Room’ curated by Tenko Presents , hosted by KAYOKOYUKI

Ikezaki works with various objects and images found in everyday life, including old posters from antique stores, old recipe books, fast fashion brand items, public objects, houseplants, rice crackers, tongs, etc.
Viewing these materials and images as homogenized and interchangeable, he reinterprets and presents them in the form of drawings, photographs, sculptures, and installations.
In the process of Ikezaki’s practice, preconceived notions and prejudices about objects and images are sometimes ignored, and the time, space, color, form, and function they contain in their own existence are sometimes reflected as puns or jokes, just like our real communication.
In the process of Ikezaki’s practice, preconceived notions and prejudices about objects and images are sometimes ignored, and the time, space, color, form, and function they contain in their own existence are sometimes reflected as wordplay or jokes, just like our real communication.
For this exhibition, Ikezaki will mix old and new works, curate his own works, and create an exhibition space reconfigured as “Seamap: Receive and Release. In the ancient art of Polynesian navigation, in the absence of maps or compasses, one would guide oneself to distant destinations by observing the stars, wave patterns, the flight of birds, and the movement of wind and clouds. Similarly, Ikezaki is culturally and geographically influenced by the environment in which he finds himself, receiving information about objects and images he encounters as in the ancient art of navigation, and using this information as a guidepost for his work. Some of his works seem to be inspired by the climate of his birthplace or the presence of his ancestors and family. It is like a record of an endless voyage to and from the past and future, exploring personal history and identity.
The works on display in this exhibition include “Parallel Patchwork,” a series of quilts that he obtained from a recycle store, inherited the method from his mother, and further modified; “The Address on The Address,” a series of works that he began after moving to New York, in which he draws directly on envelopes, cardboard boxes, and packages of purchased items; and “Sea Map,” a work that is an attempt to explore the cultural and geographical roots of a fragment of a maritime map found in an antique store in Taiwan.

Takuya Ikezaki
Born in 1981, Takuya Ikezaki graduated from Musashino Art University and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing as a research student. Ikezaki received a Japanese Government Overseas Research Program Grant, from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and lived and worked in New York from 2018 to 2019. After that, he moved to New York.

Recent solo exhibitions include “Recent Work (Body & Soul),” at Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo, 2023, “Heaven,” at Young Knee Cool, New York, 2021, “Beautiful♡World,” at Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo, 2017, “The Earthly Paradise, Vol. 2: A new horizon for everyday life and art” at Gallery αM, Tokyo, 2015, “Today’s Tomorrow, Yesterday’s Today” Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, 2015. Group exhibitions include “…” at Laurel Gitlen, New York, 2024, “DOMANI, Tomorrow 2022-23,” at The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2022, “paper works,” at Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo, 2021, Tokunoshima Art Project 2014 “Sky and Snail,” at Isen Town Museum of History and Folklore, Kagoshima, 2014, “Skin & Map: the study of body and sense by four artists” at Aichi Triennale 2010.