Flower Appearance　April 6th - April 27th, 2024

Wada Garou Tokyo Lab. is proud to announce a solo exhibition by Haruko Nagata.

Nagata is an artist who continues to paint flowers. When she faces her works as if she were breathing with flowers, she comes to express herself by perceiving the smell, sound, temperature, color, and even the presence of flowers with her five senses, Nagata says. The buds open with fresh vitality, and even the decayed form of the flowers is expressed as it is. The works expressed without being bound by form are like afterimages of memories of a certain time, and speak to us straight away, enveloped in soft light.
 
The first time we have exhibited the work of Haruko Nagata in our gallery. We look forward to welcoming you to the show.



ARTIST STATEMENT

As I try to give form to each moment of floral transience,　the expression naturally becomes simpler than figurative.

Facing flowers all the time, they seem to tell me what they should be depicted as.

​—This is the first time to unveil my work in WADA GAROU TOKYO Lab.

PROFILE
Haruko Nagata b. 1960 in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
​Nagata is a painter who applies the knowledge and techniques she learned from sculpture to the construction of spatial awareness, and paints her works like breathing with flowers. She studied sculpture in the sculpture class at the Joshibi University of Art and Design under Professor Kuwahara Hiromori, and after completing her major in sculpture in 1982, she went to France the following year to study.
Currently, in addition to her work as an artist, she is a part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design. Her books (drawings, illustrations, and bookbinding) include "Mozart's Message (1995)," "Boku, Ittekiru yo! (2002), Picture Books without Characters (2003), Golden Squirrel (2006), and Koneko Moo's Fairy Tales (2007) (all published by Poplar Publishing Co., Ltd.). "Blooming" is in the collection of the Shibukawa Museum Kuwahara Sculpture Art Museum, "bloom" and "Flower Arranging" are in the collection of the Nirasaki Omura Museum of Art, and "Mermaid," "Wood Nymph," "Hearing the Wind," and "Seeing the Wind" are installed in California, U.S.A.

INFORMATION
Haruo Nagata Solo Exhibition “Flower Appearance”
April 6th – April 27th, 2024
Tuesday – Saturday 1:00 – 6:30pm 
Closed on Sundays, Mondays and national holidays.

WADA GAROU TOKYO Lab.
Matsuzawa 8 Bldg. 3F, 3-5-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061