{"id":284076,"date":"2025-09-22T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=284076"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:24:41","slug":"adf-art-gallery-project-vol-36-akira-inumaru-solo-exhibition-the-garden-of-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/art\/adf-art-gallery-project-vol-36-akira-inumaru-solo-exhibition-the-garden-of-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"ADF Art Gallery Project Vol.36 | Akira Inumaru Solo Exhibition “The Garden of Lights”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translating the Intense Energy of Light into Artworks<\/h3>\r\n

A<\/span>DF<\/a> (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) is pleased to present \"The Garden of Lights,\" the 36th exhibition of the \"ADF Art Gallery Project<\/a>\"\u00a0by artist Akira Inumaru, from 10 to 22 October 2025 at GARDE Gallery<\/a> at Omotesando, Tokyo.<\/p>\r\n

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What would light feel like if it were a tangible substance?
\r\nIf we could grasp it in our hands, smear it like paint, or let it seep into paper, then perhaps the light that exists here and now could be preserved like a specimen and shared with others.<\/p>\r\n

When I look at plants, I imagine the sunlight absorbed by their leaves, stored within their bodies, leaving behind traces of light that remain there as material substance.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Inumaru engages with the vast and universal theme of \"light\" through painting, drawing, performance, and installation, approaching it as if \"light = a substance that can be touched.\" In recent years, the artist has focused mainly on two series: one of drawings in which parts of works on paper are scorched by sunlight through a magnifying glass, and another of paintings created by equating \"color = light,\" imagining pigments as \"powdered light\" and the paints\u2014made by mixing these pigments with acrylic resin\u2014as \"light paste.\"<\/p>\r\n

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Light often brings positive associations\u2014life, hope, knowledge\u2014but at the same time, an excess of light has the power to take life, destroy, and cause materials to deteriorate. This exhibition expresses that intense energy of \"light\" through the artist\u2019s works.<\/p>\r\n

This exhibition marks Inumaru\u2019s first solo show in Japan since moving to France in 2008. It is an attempt to share the experiences of light perceived over 18 years of life in France.<\/p>\r\n

Akira Inumaru<\/h4>\r\n

Born in 1984 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture
\r\n2008 Completed Master\u2019s Program in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University
\r\n2013 Completed Master Class at \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Art et Design Le Havre\u2013Rouen
\r\nCurrently based in Rouen and Paris, France<\/p>\r\n

Major solo exhibitions
\r\n2024 \u201cChambres ardentes\u201d, Church of Saint-Maclou (Rouen\/France)
\r\n2023 \u201cMon Cher Jardin\u201d, Ch\u00e2teau de Villandry (Villandry\/France)
\r\n2022 \u201cCimes et Racines\u201d, Church of Saint-Ouen (Rouen\/France)
\r\n2018 \u201cBotanique\u201d, Greenhouse in the Luxembourg Garden (Paris\/France)
\r\n2018 \u201cLangage des fleurs\u201d, MOCAK Museum of Modern Art (Krakow\/Waves)
\r\n2015 \u201cKata -D\u2019une lumi\u00e8re \u00e0 l\u2019autre\u201d, Yves Klein Archives (Paris\/France)<\/p>\r\n

Major group exhibitions
\r\n2021 \u201cStar Makers\u201d, Foro Boario Contemporary Art Center (Oristano\/Italy)
\r\n2013 \u201cTatsuno Art Project 2013\u201d, Museum of soy sauce Higashimaru (Tatsuno)<\/p>\r\n

\"The Garden of Lights\" by Akira Inumaru<\/span><\/h3><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Dates<\/td>\r\n10 to 22 October, 2025<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Hours<\/td>\r\n11:00\uff5e18:00<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Venue<\/td>\r\nGARDE Gallery<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Closed<\/td>\r\nOctober 18(Sat), Sundays, and holidays<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
URL<\/td>\r\nhttps:\/\/www.art-adf.jp\/?sl=en<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table><\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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