Cherry Blossom 18
Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Acrylic, Canvas
Size: 145.5 × 112 × 3.5 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Acrylic, Canvas
- Size
- 145.5 × 112 × 3.5 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Not Included
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Category
- Painting
Work Details
Size: H145.5 x W112 x D3.5 cm (F80)
Material:: Acrylic on canvas
Production Year: 2025
Edition: One of a kind (unique)
Work certificate: ︎ ⚪ ︎
Sign: ︎ ⚪ ︎
■Details
There is a signature and production year written on the back of the work
statement
Journey of Encounters
In the stillness of our everyday lives, countless unexpected "encounters" quietly await—like the fleeting glimmer of light or a sudden breeze brushing past the body.
This exhibition is an attempt to give form to those ephemeral intersections of time and perception.
Through motifs such as the faint shadows of cherry blossoms, residual impressions of human presence, and the quiet figure of a deer breathing in the depths of a forest,
I seek to capture moments of coincidence and layer them upon the canvas—
transforming the invisible into particles of pigment.
Using an airbrush, I gently apply the three primary colors—red, blue, and yellow—in soft, mist-like layers. Deliberately leaving small gaps within the composition,
I allow silhouettes to endlessly emerge and dissolve. This void-like cycle mirrors the life of cherry blossoms—blooming, falling, and budding once more—and invites the viewer to reflect on the beauty of impermanence, or mono no aware.
As my own outline dissolves into the field of light and shadow, the image gradually transforms into a constellation of shifting colors—floating, flickering, ungraspable.
What you see here is a single moment in an endless journey. Just as pigments overlap, blur, and vanish, we too are continually transformed by the encounters we experience.
If this exhibition becomes a small signpost guiding you toward your next encounter,
that alone brings me deep contentment.
■Exhibition Information
Tomoya Tsukamoto solo exhibition “ Journey of Encounters ”
Period
July 5 (Sat) - August 5 (Tue), 2025
Venue
Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8 min
Address
104-0031
TODA BUILDING 1F, 1-7-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Business hours
08:00〜19:00
Rest
Open every day during the exhibition period
Admission
Free
Access
3 min walk from exit 6 of Kyobashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.
5 min walk from exit B1 of Nihonbashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.
8 min walk from the Yaesu Central Exit of Tokyo Station on all JR Line.
Exhibition Information
- Past Exhibitions
- Tomoya Tsukamoto solo exhibition “Journey of Encounters”07.05.2025 - 08.05
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Artist
現代美術家
1982年 石川県 金沢市生まれ 2005年 愛知県立芸術大学 美術学部 油画専攻 卒業 2007年 東京藝術大学大学院 美術研究科 修士課程 絵画専攻 修了 塚本 智也(1982年、石川県生まれ)は神奈川県を拠点に制作する現代美術家。エアブラシで極小 のドットを重ねて点描効果を生み出し、ドリッピングと軽やかな筆致を融合させた絵画を手がけ る。赤・青・黄の三原色を幾重にも吹き重ね、網膜上で混色させることで図と地の境界を溶解さ せる技法が特徴。 桜・鯉・人物像・鹿などのモチーフを通して光と影、生と死の循環を探究する。生の植物を型取っ たステンシルやネガ/ポジ反転を駆使し、ジョルジュ・スーラの視覚混合理論と琳派の装飾性を現 代的に更新。日本的な「かざり」の感性とミニマルな制作プロセスを両立させ、観る者を没入体 験へといざなう。 主な個展 2012年 「シルエット」|西武渋谷店 美術画廊|東京 2004年 個展|はるひ美術館|愛知 主なグループ展 2025年「Voices 2025」|華山1914文化創意産業園区|台北 2022年 I氏コレクション展「今どきアート2022 - 存在すること」|富岡市立美術博物館・福沢一 郎記念美術館|群馬 2012年 シェル美術賞 アーティスト セレクション展|国立新美術館|東京 2012年 群馬青年ビエンナーレ2012|群馬県立近代美術館|群馬 2004、2005年 シェル美術賞展|東京 賞暦 2018年 みなかみ町長賞|群馬 2014年 新潮賞 |Young Art Taipei 2014|台湾 2012年 ガトーフェスタ ハラダ賞|群馬青年ビエンナーレ 2012 2005年 第20回ホルベインスカラシップ奨学生|ホルベイン工業 2005年 卒業制作秀作賞|愛知県立芸術大学 2005年 桑原賞|愛知県立芸術大学 2003年 町民賞|第3回夢広場はるひ絵画ビエンナーレ|愛知 収蔵 I氏コレクション(富岡市立美術博物館・福沢一郎記念美術館 寄託)|群馬 みなかみ町|群馬 Tomoya Tsukamoto (b. 1982, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is a contemporary painter and artist based in Kanagawa, Japan. Using an airbrush, he builds layers of minuscule dots that shimmer with pointillist luminosity, contrasting them with fluid drips and brisk brush-marks. Successive veils of red, blue and yellow—the three primary colours—are sprayed so that the hues blend optically, dissolving the boundary between figure and ground. Motifs such as cherry blossoms, koi carp, human silhouettes and deer allow him to probe cycles of light and shadow, life and death. Stencils cast from living plants and alternating positive / negative images contemporise Georges Seurat’s optical theories and the decorative spirit of the Rinpa school. Balancing a distinctly Japanese sense of “kazari” (ornament) with a pared-down, minimalist approach, Tsukamoto invites viewers into an immersive chromatic field.
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2025年7月5日(土)～8月5日(火)までGallery & Bakery Tokyo ８分で開催する、塚本智也 新作個展「Journey of Encounters」出展作品です。