Teppei Ikehira who I introduced in takumist on Sep 9 participates in Art Expo MALAYSIA from Galerie Bruno Massa.
The expo will be held from Oct 12 to 14. If you happens to be in Kuala Lumpur, it is worth visiting to see his art pieces.
Art Expo Malaysia
MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC)
Jalan Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah,
50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Teppei Ikehira 池平撤兵
Teppei Ikehira, artist’s official site
“I select what I purely want to paint. If I force myself to draw something I am unwilling, I would likely get bored. Forcing me is sometime not endurable.”
As Ikehira mentioned, his style is elastic. It flows to diversified directions with a various choice of motives, compositions and colours. It reflects his encounters in his life. Painting may be like his life itself.
Ikehira says that purchasing and hanging a piece of art is not the end of a journey for an appreciator, but is just a beginning.
Indeed, with versatile motives in his paintings, I have a new discovery, a new encounter and a new experience. It unnoticeably becomes a part of my memory and comes back with nostalgia. It is as if I am on a trip with a ticket handed by Ikehira in my hand and wondering where I am taken to. I certainly can’t wait to see it.
At Part I, I introduced Teppei Ikehara‘s art piece, titled ’They know their place’.
Ikehira told me that he started painting it with ‘a boy cuddling a tiger’. Can you locate the little boy? It is drawn at the lower part of left corner.
One day Ikehira brought back a stuffed tiger from neighbor restaurant to surprise his son expected to be home from school. Against the odds, the son started cuddling the tiger and that became an inspiration for Ikehira to start out the work.
Ikehira said that he normally doesn’t have full picture how he wants to finish a work when he started. The finished work is so to say a consequence of accumulated daily inspiration.
“I intuitively find a motif that interests me and carefully draw it with high concentration and in detail. I continuously find such interesting motifs from daily life, so I have a plenty of sources.”
Ikehira‘s inspiration comes from a slice of daily life. Interaction with his children, orange tree in his back yard, insects, birds coming to his house, a picture in a magazine he happens to read, etc, etc. Anything could be sufficient to keep his fire going.
Looking at countless motifs scattered like stars on canvas, my mind traveled with memories, was stimulated with new encounters and felt like dreaming. I may have had a some kind of simulated experience through Ikehira’s artwork.
Ikehira‘s work is exhibited at Corridor Gallery 34, Park Hotel Tokyo this month. Don’t miss the chance!
Teppei Ikehila TOKYO MERMAID PRINCESS
Date: September 1, 2018 (Sat.) – September 30, 2018 (Sun.)
Time: 11:00 a.m. ～ 5:00 p.m.
Place: Corridor Gallery 34, Park Hotel Tokyo (34F)
Fare: Admission Free
At the next post, I will touch on some more Ikehira‘s creations.
There are two pieces of oil painting by Teppei Ikehira (池平撤兵）hanging on the wall in my living room. One is a college of polar bear, salmon, blue and white colored ripples, flowers in red, pink and orange. Another is a collage of lots of titmouses, lots of pink tulips, fried eggs, a windmill, a little girl with a sort of European traditional costume like with blue sky with some white clouds on the back. How I describe his painting in detail, it would be hard to imagine how it looks like. The motifs in a canvas is so versatile. It is hard to believe such diversified and unrelated motifs can be harmonized in one frame.
He had his personal show in hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO until yesterday and I could be there barely in the last day.
居場所を知ったものたち They know their place 2016 242.0cm x 324.0cm oil on canvas
How many different objects do you find in the above painting. You may wonder by the choice of diversified motifs from animals, fishes, cakes, children, fried eggs, Onigiri (rice balls), fruits, juices, UFO, and so on. Depending on a place you pay attention, you have a different discovery. Even after spending sometime searchingly looking by part by part, I felt as if there is a new motif added one after another.
Ikehira told me that the way such versatile motifs be together in the canvas is just like what we are living in this world with numberless different living creatures. We have somehow a harmony to belong to one world. Ikehira said he draws each motif one by one with high concentration as if each creature lives one’s life with own faith.
”Ibasho (your place) is not necessary a defined space, but exists within the relations with surroundings. To be exact, Ibasho exists inner self and can be visualized by the relations with surroundings”
“居場所とは具体的な決まった空間のことではなく、周囲との関係性の中にある。さらにもっと正確にいうと居場所とは自分の内側にあり、周囲との関係性の中で可視化できるようになるものである”
戦場の産声 For The Babies At War 2017 162.0cm x 162.0cm Oil on canvas
OFFICIAL BLOG [http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/betterhalf20012001]
PORTFOLIO SITE [http://teppeiikehila.com]
OFFICE BACTERIA [http://office-bacteria.com]
I will write more about him at the next post so stay tuned!
