Image: Taeko Tsunoda: Water vein / India ink on Japanese paper, 38 x 45.5 cm, 2015 / Courtesy of Smart Ship Gallery, Tokyo
Realism and Abstraction in Contemporary Japanese Painting
Japanese artist Taeko Tsunoda's paintings are unique and versatile, combining elements of realism and abstraction. Through this mix of styles, she conveys a wide range of emotions and moods, making her work appealing to a wide audience.
Her ability to navigate between realism and abstraction allows the artist to accurately capture recognisable themes while experimenting with form, colour and composition to evoke more subjective and emotional responses. This stylistic duality adds depth and complexity to the work, offering the viewer multiple entry points to engage with the art on different levels.
Tsunoda has won numerous exhibition awards and has participated in many exhibitions worldwide, including Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.
Taeko Tsunoda is represented by Smart Ship Gallery. The gallery was established in 2011 in Tokyo. Smart Ship presents international works by contemporary artists under the guiding principle that individual dignity and identity can be constructed and communicated through art. It believes that art is related to society and reflects social realities.
August 2023
Rick Stevens and Alexandra Eldridge
Curious Conjurings
This series combines the artistic worlds of two great American artists. Alexandra Eldridge's work is full of literary references and allusions to myths, archetypes and fairy tales. She uses symbolic and dream-like imagery to stimulate the imagination, while landscapes are a recurring theme in Rick Stevens' work.
Rick Stevens' compositions range from stylised representations to more abstract paintings, always maintaining a mystical approach. His mystical approach to abstraction transcends the boundaries of direct representation.
Alexandra Eldridge explores the great themes of life - consciousness and unconsciousness, fear and love, memory and dreams - in an ethereal realism. In her process of mapping and layering meaning, Eldridge draws on a variety of literary and philosophical sources.
The artists are represented by NoonPowell Fine Art, London.
Image: Rick Stevens and Alexandra Eldridge: Wisdom Out For a Ride / mixed media montage / Courtesy of NoonPowell Fine Art
July 2023
Phumulani Ntuli
Crossroads: New Art from Africa
Phumulani Ntuli's work combines artistic research, sculpture, video installation and performative practices, always addressing different audiences and seeking to make visible gaps, ruptures, silences, pauses and remnants of history. His work is concerned with fictional geographies, simulations, archives and representations. He explores these themes through the collision of documentation and fiction in collages, performances and video installations, questioning the format of objective media in the representation of historical events and situations within a geopolitical imagination. Phumulani Ntuli is represented by Reku Art Gallery, Madrid.
read more about the gallery and the artistsImage: Phumulani Ntuli / Cuerpos de alquiler (Bodies for hire) / Mixed media collage, paper transfer and acrylic on canvas, 178 x 132 cm, 2021 / Courtesy of Reku Art Gallery, Madrid
June 2023
Victoire d'Harcourt
Balancing the world on silk string
French artist Victoire d'Harcourt often expresses a dual feeling in her work: strength and fragility in a precarious balance. A sculptor, painter and photographer, Victoire d'Harcourt has a penchant for pushing the boundaries of reality. Victoire d'Harcourt recomposes her images with large areas of colour. Inspired by large spaces and architecture, Victoire combines techniques to create compositions that combine figuration and abstraction. She creates intimate sculptures as well as monumental works that form alliances in their balance. Victoire d'Harcourt is represented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery from Paris.
read more about the artists and the galleryImage: Victoire d'Harcourt : Sculpture / Courtesy Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
May 2023
Park, Jong Sung
A creative exploration of the planet's original colours.
Artist Jong-Sung Park focuses on the planet Earth as the source of life and expresses this in his paintings. After graduating from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, he has participated in nine solo exhibitions, the Korea-China-Japan Invited Artists Exhibition in Shanghai, China, the Peace Art Festival in Nagoya, Japan, and many group exhibitions, including the Peace Art Festival at the Seoul Arts Center. Jong Sung has also held more than 12 solo exhibitions. Jong-Sung Park is represented by the JW Fine Art Gallery from Seoul and its artistic director Anouk Lee.
read more about the gallery and the artistsImage: Park, Jong-Sung: Planet Farm 4, painting 2022 / Courtesy JW Art Gallery Seoul
May 2023
Luco Cormerais
Sculpture sur papier un nouveau Faust quantique ?
Luco Cormerais began his artistic career as a stone sculptor. Since 2012, he also works as a sculptor on paper, which he cuts in a unique way with repetitive cuts and then expands into a three-dimensional graphic composition. Luco Cormerais is rethinking aesthetics. His works appear as wave-like structures that neither reflect nor absorb light, but instead radiate it. A passionate disciple of quantum physics and philosophy, Luco gently and poetically arranges particles like waves in a field. His work stabilises the dance of atoms in a very thoughtful and emotional way.
read more about the artistImage: Luco Cormerais : Émotion printanière / Sculpture sur papier Kraft - technique mixte - rehaut acrylique, pastel et pigments purs, 2023
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Hector Adalid | presented by wkomma Art Management
Haruna Aoki | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Asnaby | presented by Fondation Artists-Way
Veronica Barbato | presented by CasaGalleria
Pierre-Luc Bartoli | presented by Galerie Cyril Guernieri
Rafel Bestard | presented by Galeria Contrast
Markus Bhend | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Emily Bickell | presented by Halde Galerie
Evelyne Brader-Frank | presented by Halde Galerie
Joel Brandenberger | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Rosmarie Burger | presented by Art Gallery Vijion
Yuri Catania | presented by CasaGalleria
Ricardo Celma | presented by Smaltlight
Laura Ceretti | presented by CasaGalleria
Jerome Chia-Horng Lin | presented by Fen Atelier Gallery
Francisc Chiuariu | presented by Henri Maillardet Art Society
Alina Chorna | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Juliette Clovis | presented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
Maka Dadiani | presented by Fondation Artists-Way
Adeniyi Damilola | presented by Reku Art Gallery
Balázs Deim | presented by Art Capital Foundation
Philippe Delenseigne | presented by WS Art Gallery
Walter Diem | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Egon Digon | presented by Vijion Art Gallery
Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints | ADM Photo
Silke Dormann | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Frances Schandera-Duarte / Everett Duarte | Duarte-Artists
Nicolas Dubreuille | presented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
Sergey Dubroff (JODU) | presented by ARTelPOINT
Didier Eichenberger | presented by Galerie am Lindenhof
Alexandra Eldridge | presented by NoonPowell Fine Art
Ingrid Fasser | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Oliver Fauser | presented by Galerie zum Harnisch
Tiziana Federico | presented by Elevate Art
Raymond Fein | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Tommy Fiendish (Thomas D. Wright) | presented by Elevate Art
Gheorghe Fikl | presented by Henri Maillardet Art Society
Eric Roux Fontaine | presented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
fru.ch (Beat Frutiger) | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Samuel Frydman aka Asnaby / Fondation Artists-Way
Tania Font | presented by Galeria Contrast
Yannick Fournié | presented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
Juyeon Gächter | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Fabien Gaeng | presented by Fondation Artists-Way
Irene Gärtner | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Wioletta Gancarz | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Nubia Soledad Garcia Hernandez | presented by Wilde
Vanessa Garner | presented by WS Art Gallery
Laurence Gartel | presented by Galerie zum Harnisch
Dan Gerbo | presented by Galerie zum Harnisch
Gina Ginali | presented by Tcvetkova
René Golker | presented by Elevate Art
Tim Guse (Tim Onday) | presented by Elevate Art
Niki O'Hare | presented by Halde Galerie
Victoire D'Harcourt | presented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
Asya Haroutunian | presented by Arts Crossroad Gallery
Alona Harpaz | presented by Fondation Artists-Way
Envita Hasler | Hasler and Colbert
Willi Hofmann | presented by Kunstschür
Arno Hoogland | presented by Exit Art Amsterdam
Hetty Huisman | presented by Exit Art Amsterdam
Ayaka Iida | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Tina Itin | presented by Galerie am Lindenhof
Keiko Ito | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Izumi | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Jabba Company | Sarkis Homberger
Jan January Janczak | presented by Showroom Zürich
Jeon, Ji-Hyun | presented by Jami Exhibition Seoul
Jo, Myung-Hee | presented by Jw Fine Art Gallery
Jo, Youngryeo | presented by Jami Exhibition Seoul
Joo, Woon-Hang | presented by Jw Fine Art Gallery
František Jungvirt | presented by Showroom Zürich
Michito Kaihara | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Peter Kananji | presented by Shona Art Gallery
Katyusha (Ekaterina Nikitina) | presented by Arts Crossroad Gallery
Therese Kaufmann | bildertheke
Jonas Kaufmann | Unikatschmiede
Verena Keihl | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Christian Keller | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Kimberly Kiel | presented by Halde Galerie
Verena Kirchlechner | Atelier Animalia
Hanna Klopotowska | presented by Showroom Zürich
KML-ART | Karin Myriel Leopold
Christian Koller | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Linmay Komine | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Josef Kostner | presented by Vijion Art Gallery
Valerijana Krasniqi | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Rufus Krieger | presented by Elevate Art
Juergen Kuhl | presented by wkomma Art Management
Elena Kupreeva | presented by Arts Crossroad Gallery
Lu Kuznetsova | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Patrick Lang | presented by WS Art Gallery
Meera Lee | presented by Jami Exhibition Seoul
Lee, Soo-In | presented by Gallery Harang
Jamari Lior (Maja Jerrentrup) | presented by Elevate Art
Cornelia Lochmann | presented by Art Gallery Vijion
Tomohiro Mae | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Carina Martins | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Gerard Mas | presented by Galeria Contrast
Mike Masedza | presented by Shona Art Gallery
Miriam Mass | presented by Fondation Artists-Way
Kazuki Matsumura | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Katsuyo Matsumaru | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Pamela Maria | presented by Exit Art Amsterdam
Priska Medam | presented by Galerie zum Harnisch
Claudia Meyer | presented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
Stanislav Mikus | presented by Sense Art
Claudia Mini | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Kazuhiko Miyamoto | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Aiko Mizutani | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Alessandro Montalbano | presented by WS Art Gallery
Alexander Mordvintsev | Art Me Association
Angela Morgan | presented by Halde Galerie
Íñigo Navarro | presented by Galeria Contrast
Kelly O'Neal | presented by Halde Galerie
Dario Norelli | presented by Galerie am Lindenhof
Kika Notten | presented by Exit Art Amsterdam
Phumulani Ntuli | presented by Reku Art Gallery
Marianne Odok | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Sumiko Okubo | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Ayline Olukman | presented by Ange Monnoyeur Gallery
Richard Orlinski | presented by Galerie Adrienne Desbiolles
Corina Palombo | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Alejandro Parisi | presented by Smaltlight
Park, Jong-Sung | presented by Jw Fine Art Gallery
Pierre Pellegrini | presented by CasaGalleria
Peppone / Elmago | presented by Clémentine Gallery
Manuel Perea del Prado | presented by Elevate Art
Romy Pfeifer | presented by f/two artroom reber
Harald Plattner | presented by Vijion Art Gallery
Olesja Pop | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Lorita Preiano | presented by CasaGalleria
Marco Prieto | presented by Smaltlight
Patrick Rapp | presented by f/two artroom reber
Nii Anyetei Ras | presented by Reku Art Gallery
Jean-François Réveillard | JfR
Viktoria Rechsteiner | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Roland Reinert | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Sonja Riemer | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Mireia Ruiz | presented by Reku Art Gallery
Julia Runggaldier | presented by Vijion Art Gallery
Christa Ruoss-Haller | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Stefano Sanna | presented by wkomma Art Management
Tamie Sasaki | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Michael Sazarin | presented by La Gioia Ascona Arthouse
Andrea Sbra Perego | presented by Name1 London
Massimiliano Schiavon | presented by Glas Art Gallery
Vik Schroeder | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Dorothea Schüle | presented by Camena Art Project by art e motion
Joachim Schulz | presented by Elevate Art
Oliver Schweizer | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Masahiko Shigyo | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Susanne Senn | Roger Sandmeier
Rick Stevens | presented by NoonPowell Fine Art
Silvia Strobos | presented by Exit Art Amsterdam
Ursula Sulser | presented by Galerie Kunstzürichsüd
Elisabeth Sunday | presented by Galerie Adrienne Desbiolles
Noriko Takaoka | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Akiko Takashima | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Souun Takeda | presented by Stella Art Tokyo
Kumiko Tamura | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Masami Tanno | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Alice Teichert | presented by Halde Galerie
Toru Teranishi | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Elena Terentieva | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Heidi Thompson | presented by Halde Galerie
Taeko Tsunoda | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Katsuya Ueda | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Bettina Marion Ulrich | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Marshall Vernet | presented by CasaGalleria
Gustavo Viani | presented by WS Art Gallery
Brigitte Wellinger | presented by Kunstzürichsüd
Corina Wolfram (COCOW) | presented by ARTelPOINT
Sachiko Yabuki | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Hiroshi Yamazoe | presented by Smart Ship Gallery
Art Capital Foundation | Szentendre / Hungary
Fondation Artists-Way | Saint-Légier CH
Arts Crossroad Gallery | Arth CH
Excellence Art Gallery | Marbella
Harang Gallery | Seoul (Zurich Fair 2019)
Harang Gallery | Seoul (Basel Fair 2018)