LEESAYA

EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION

SHUSUKE TANAKA

SHUSUKE TANAKA, Not a dream, 2024. Oil on canvas, 130.3 x 162 cm. © Shusuke Tanaka, courtesy LEESAYA.

Osaka-based artist Shusuke Tanaka’s painting practice is grounded in a desire to depict the wonder in everyday life. For his 2022 exhibition “Painting through the Museum” at the Osaka Museum of Natural History, Tanaka produced, for example, a series of large paintings that sought to represent the experience of viewing objects like fossils and other specimens in the museum’s collection. Tanaka’s latest works approach the physicality of painting and its limited frame as a means of embodying the spontaneity of objects and scenes that appear in a particular configuration only once in a lifetime.

VENUE
VENUE

LEESAYA

  • C9
  • Meguro

3–14–2 Shimomeguro, Meguro-Ku

Tel. 81-(0)3-6881-4389

Leesaya was established in 2019 to nurture young artists who seek innovative modes of expression. The gallery collaborates with creators working across a wide range of practices to explore new possibilities of contemporary art.

MITSUO KIM, “Control Control,” installation view, Leesaya, Tokyo, 2020. Photo by Ichiro Mishima. ©︎ Mitsuo Kim, courtesy Leesaya.