The exhibition alter in form - Transformation, by Mitsuhiro Ikeda, Kohei Yamada and Haru Matsuda will be held at the Chiso Gallery.
The gallery owned by long-standing Kyo-yuzen store Chiso, founded in 1555, has planned exhibitions introducing archives of nearly twenty thousand timeless products as the headstream of the aesthetics of Chiso, and presents the world of Chiso through exhibitions and events that allow experiences of the Chiso aesthetics in its many forms, through diverse viewpoints such as history, craftwork and art.

Each artist has an origin to why they started painting, and this origin appears again and again, undergoing transformation. Whether it is realistic or abstract, it is preserved as a base, while the external form continues to move. Yamada uses lines which are derived from realistic forms of objects as his start point, from which new lines, colours and shapes are derived, which renew themselves as if to bounce back in the rectangle of the canvas. When this movement reaches its climax, the screen is frozen and set. What is depicted there, is the possibility of the development of the original and traces of transformation, and there, the viewers create a new image. Matsuda's production is based on a skepticism towards and the possibility of things like fiction and the virtual in real life; in a place he calls VA (virtual abstraction) where reality and virtual are merged together, viewers are made to reimagine the world. Through this practice he attempts to transform the way we perceive reality itself. Though I base my work on real scenery and things, rather than trying to reproduce this, I wish to depict a new 'imaginary place' that wavers between the 'tactile' paint, and image of 'representation'. Based on the motivations created through abrasion with the outer world, the three undergo various somatic, physical and technical processes, transforming, and generating a new exterior. By having the viewer come into contact with this new exterior, I hope that they can feel their possibility of perhaps transforming the world and forming a new creativity. (Mitsuhiro Ikeda)

Mitsuhiro Ikeda

Born in 1978, Hokkaido. Post-graduate of Musashino Art University in 2006. Associate professor of Kyoto University of the Arts. He depicts paintings as a place of origin where various things such as images, literature, religion and culture are born from. Pola Art Foundation overseas trainee (Berlin) in 2013. VOCA 2007, VOCA encouragement prize. Main exhibitions include Garden of Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2010, solo exhibition location/dislocation, ShugoArts, in 2012, solo exhibition dawn, Satoko Oe Contemporary in 2020.

Kohei Yamada

Born in 1997, Osaka. Graduated from the Painting course, Musashino Art University in 2020. Currently enrolled in the Fine and Applied Arts Field, Kyoto University of the Arts. He combines three patterns, of creating gradations with the paintbrush, layering the paintbrush to create planes, and creating contours using lines in his production. Selected for the CAF Award 2020. Main exhibitions include RISING STARS Exhibition (GINZA ATRIUM, Ginza Tsutaya Books), and solo exhibitions include ROAD (Daikanyama HILLSIDE TERRACE Annex A) in 2021.

Haru Matsuda

Born in 1998, Iwate. Graduated from University of Tsukuba, School of Art & Design, Printmaking course in 2021. Currently enrolled in the Global Seminar of the Graduate School, Kyoto University of the Arts. 5th class of the Kuma Foundation. He creates 'VR prints' that combines printmaking and VR. By experiencing a real and virtual space, he presents a new visual experience. Awarded the 10 people exhibition between the arts sponsor award, and WATOWA ART AWARD 2021 special prize (Tomoko Ashikawa prize, Shigeru Aoi prize, Maho Kubota prize, and Takahiro Komatsu prize). Recent exhibitions include VIRTUAL ABSTRACTION (Tokyo Bunka Union DOGO) in 2021.