Walls Tokyo is pleased to present "A NEW WORLD," an exhibition featuring works from our collection and featuring the painter Yurika Roppongi.

 

 

 

What a work of art can do is not to make us judge and generalize, but to show and grasp something specific.

--Susan Sontag, from 「Anti-Interpretation」 (*)

Lion heads and pit bulls appear suddenly and strut around the screen as if they belong there. The motifs that appear in Roppongi paintings are said to have appeared in his mind just before he painted them.

Whether they are almost improvised or based on interviews with the young people who gather in Shibuya, her paintings are the expression of herself (and others) living in the now.

It is almost impossible to interpret her works, which are distanced from the logic and concept behind their production, and the viewer is confronted with them without the filter of the self. The painted space that we see in this way begins to shine as a new world filled with a sense of exuberance.

To paint is to live - such words can be heard from the paintings of Yurika Roppongi, which will be exhibited and sold along with works selected from Walls Tokyo collection.

※Sontag, Susan (1996) 「Anti-interpretation」, translated by Yasuya Takahashi et al, ChikumaShobo