EXHIBITIONS

2026.5.23 (sat) - 8.22 (sat)

a flower is life
a seed is life
which came first, I cannot say –
yet within the flow and cycle of life
each exists
just as it is


Toward the end of 2022, I was suddenly moved to paint flowers. It didn't matter whether they were real flowers or flowers from my imagination — either would do. I wanted to paint whatever flower called to me, following my heart wherever it led, and render each one in the manner of a specimen. Not as painterly expression, but as if from a field guide.

Once I began, I found myself naturally drawn to the flowers blooming at roadsides, to those peeking out from gaps in walls. Through a loupe, a mysterious microcosm opens up. I was simply astonished by the intricacy of their forms. Nature is transient, and at the same time, resilient. I found myself feeling this anew.

After a while, though I was painting flowers, I began to feel as though I were painting people. Looking at them again, they did indeed resemble portraits. A withering flower held a presence — tinged with loneliness, yet with the quiet gravity of an elder that only that moment could bring forth. At times I found myself nostalgic for my own youth, or a particular person would come to mind unbidden.

Flowers are people. People are flowers.
Perhaps I was borrowing the form of flowers to paint different lives, different ways of being.
 
After a hundred flowers in a hundred variations were complete, I thought next to paint seeds.
That felt inevitable. For seeds are the source of life.

And so the cycle continues.
 

                         - Kunihiko Yazawa

 

はなは いのち
たねも いのち
どちらが先かは知らないけれど
巡りのなか それぞれに
ただ、そのままに
 
 
 
 2022年の終わり頃、ふいに花を描こうと思い立った。実在する花でも、イメージの中の花でも、どちらでもよかった。描きたいと思った花を心の赴くままに、標本のような雰囲気で仕上げたいと考えた。絵画的な表現ではなく、あたかも図鑑のごとく。
 描き始めると、道端に咲く花や塀の隙間から顔を覗かせる花にも、自然と目が向くようになっていった。ルーペの中には神秘的なミクロコスモスが広がっている。精巧な造形に、ただ驚かされた。自然は儚くも同時に逞しい。改めてそう感じるのだった。

 しばらくすると花を描いているはずが、まるで人を描いているような気持ちになっていった。眺めれば確かに肖像画のようでもある。枯れゆく花には、どことなく寂しくも、その瞬間にしか醸し出せない老人のような存在感があった。また、自分の青春を懐かしく思い出したり、特定の人を思い浮かべてしまうこともあった。
 花は人。人は花。
さまざまな命の在りようを花の姿を借りて描いていたのかもしれない。

 百種百様の花が仕上がった後、次はたねを描こうと思った。
そう考えたのは必然だろう。たねは命の源なのだから。

 巡りは、まだ終わらない。
 

                          谷澤 邦彦
 
 

 

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2026.5.23 (sat) - 8.22 (sat)
Since 1994, Kunihiko Yazawa has created over 2,000 works.
From this body of work, eleven pieces have been selected for this exhibition.
 
In this corner, new works will be introduced with each season.
We invite you to explore the rich and varied worlds of Yazawa's imagination.
                   
1994年から現在まで、2,000点以上の作品を生み出してきた谷澤邦彦
その中から今回11点をセレクトしました

このコーナーでは季節ごとに作品を紹介していきます
谷澤(くにさん)の多彩な世界をお楽しみください

Past Exhibitions

 

 
 

2025

"みずのかたち - Shapes of Water" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

"しあわせのかけら - fragments of happiness" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2024

"花の標本- my herbarium vol.5" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2024

"花の標本- my herbarium vol.4" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2023

"花の標本- my herbarium vol.3" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

"花の標本- my herbarium vol.2" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2022

"花の標本- my herbarium vol.1" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2021

"画 – KUNIHIKO YAZAWA Elements"    9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2020

"かけら★けら - fragments" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019

"ひふみ - hi fu mi" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "繍 - itonami" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2018

"僕のいろいろ - Variegations II" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "僕のいろいろ - Variegations I" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017

"僕が見た景色 - Scenes of my mind" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "SHINWA" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016

"変奏 - variations III" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "変奏 - variations II" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "変奏 - variations I" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "繍 - itonami vol.2" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2015

"繍 - itonami vol.1" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "かたちの記憶 - Memories of Forms" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "Early Works II" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "Kunihiko YAZAWA" NEW CITY ART FAIR, hpgrp GALLERY, New York, US
  "うごく墨画 - UGOKU/Move - Works in Ink" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014

"Early Works I" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "繍 - Lines and Shapes" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "Elements" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "図画帳 - painting & drawing" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013

"Arch Series & Other New Works" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "Dots in the Sky" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "石の記憶 - Memories of Stones" 9201 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010

"Dots in the Sky" T.Y. HARBOR, Tokyo, Japan

2006

"P+ART+Y!" 9201 Gallery x AKI-EX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2003

"SHINWA" Facial Index, New York, US

2002

"ホワイトシップ - White Ship" Nippondaira Art Museum, Shizuoka, Japan

2001

"Blue in Green" ginka Gallery Corner, Saitama, Japan

2000

"Familium" Gallery Shagaru, Shizuoka, Japan
  "あなたの物語は何色ですか? - What color is your story?" Bluff 18 Hall, Yamate Italian Garden, Yokohama, Japan

1999

"谷澤邦彦 - Kunihiko YAZAWA" Gallery Shagaru, Shizuoka, Japan

1998

"GARDEN" Space YUI, Tokyo, Japan

1997

"MAMALIGA" Space YUI, Tokyo, Japan
  "谷澤邦彦 - Kunihiko YAZAWA" BARNEYS NEW YORK, Tokyo & Yokohama, Japan