Hideki Iinuma + Koen Vermeule “POEM”
session：2019.7.13 Sat. - 8.10 Sat. 13:00 - 19:00
opening Reception: 2019.7.13 Sat 18:00-20:00
＊closed on Sun, Mon, Tue and public holidays.
venue： SNOW Contemporary
SNOW Contemporary is pleased to present the two-person exhibition “POEM” by Hideki Iinuma and Koen Vermeule from Saturday, July 13th through Saturday, August 10th, 2019.
Hideki Iinuma enrolled in the Nantes School of Art (France) after completing M.F.A. at Aichi University of the Arts in 2002, and was based in Europe until 2006. Since returning to Japan, Iinuma has been showcasing works in various venues unlimited to conventional art spaces such as the open-air installation in Rokko Mountain for “Rokko Meets Art 2013,” in-store exhibitions in LUMINE Shinjuku, window displays in Mitsukoshi Isetan Department store, and a large-scale solo exhibition titled “Fighting The Goddesses” at Matsumoto City Museum of Art in 2016 where he presented a dynamic installation consisting of approximately 120 wooden sculptures. With his fascinating and urbanized perspective of creation, each of his exhibitions has been collecting considerable applause.
The Dutch painter, Vermeule was born in 1965, and graduated from The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. Since then, he has showcased works at museums and galleries across the globe such as the Dresden City Art Museum (Germany), Galerie Alte Meister (Germany), and Gerhard Hofland (the Netherlands) and others. In 2017, he received the prestigious Sacha Tanja Penning Art Award in the Netherlands. The wet ground after the rain, the long shadows at dusk, and the glaring lights at dawn are combined with contemporary figures suggest a different atmosphere from the traditional Dutch landscape paintings, and connotes a quiet loneliness of the contemporary society in which has been collecting large sympathies and followings.
Iinuma creates wooden sculptures, and Vermeule creates paintings. Although media in their practice are different with each other, Iinuma and Vermeule have had companionship for more than a decade, and Iinuma mentions he finds human senses and atmospheres in the margins created in Vermeule’s works in which could be described similar to the spreading imagination of the Japanese haiku. The style of Iinuma’s work is to encourage the audience to actively experience the work without the subjectivity being loudly expressed by Iinuma himself, which could be seen as an influence by Vermerule to no small extent in some way.
Since they exhibited together in the Netherlands in 2008, this exhibition will be the first in almost a decade to showcase the works of the two artists together. We sincerely hope this exhibition will be an occasion for all the viewers to discover unseen attractions by Vermeule, who’s works have a subtle perception and atmosphere formed by the representation of shifted reality (=POEM), and the strength and beauty of women created by Iinuma.
session：2019.7.13 Sat. - 8.10 Sat. 13:00 - 19:00
opening Reception: 2019.7.13 Sat 18:00-20:00
＊closed on Sun, Mon, Tue and public holidays.
venue： SNOW Contemporary
SNOW Contemporary is pleased to present the two-person exhibition “POEM” by Hideki Iinuma and Koen Vermeule from Saturday, July 13th through Saturday, August 10th, 2019.
Hideki Iinuma enrolled in the Nantes School of Art (France) after completing M.F.A. at Aichi University of the Arts in 2002, and was based in Europe until 2006. Since returning to Japan, Iinuma has been showcasing works in various venues unlimited to conventional art spaces such as the open-air installation in Rokko Mountain for “Rokko Meets Art 2013,” in-store exhibitions in LUMINE Shinjuku, window displays in Mitsukoshi Isetan Department store, and a large-scale solo exhibition titled “Fighting The Goddesses” at Matsumoto City Museum of Art in 2016 where he presented a dynamic installation consisting of approximately 120 wooden sculptures. With his fascinating and urbanized perspective of creation, each of his exhibitions has been collecting considerable applause.
The Dutch painter, Vermeule was born in 1965, and graduated from The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. Since then, he has showcased works at museums and galleries across the globe such as the Dresden City Art Museum (Germany), Galerie Alte Meister (Germany), and Gerhard Hofland (the Netherlands) and others. In 2017, he received the prestigious Sacha Tanja Penning Art Award in the Netherlands. The wet ground after the rain, the long shadows at dusk, and the glaring lights at dawn are combined with contemporary figures suggest a different atmosphere from the traditional Dutch landscape paintings, and connotes a quiet loneliness of the contemporary society in which has been collecting large sympathies and followings.
Iinuma creates wooden sculptures, and Vermeule creates paintings. Although media in their practice are different with each other, Iinuma and Vermeule have had companionship for more than a decade, and Iinuma mentions he finds human senses and atmospheres in the margins created in Vermeule’s works in which could be described similar to the spreading imagination of the Japanese haiku. The style of Iinuma’s work is to encourage the audience to actively experience the work without the subjectivity being loudly expressed by Iinuma himself, which could be seen as an influence by Vermerule to no small extent in some way.
Since they exhibited together in the Netherlands in 2008, this exhibition will be the first in almost a decade to showcase the works of the two artists together. We sincerely hope this exhibition will be an occasion for all the viewers to discover unseen attractions by Vermeule, who’s works have a subtle perception and atmosphere formed by the representation of shifted reality (=POEM), and the strength and beauty of women created by Iinuma.
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