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Artist Talk (Saturday, 1 Nov.)

Related Event of Art Brut 2025 Touring Exhibition "Encounter with the Known”
Artist Talk (Saturday, 1 Nov.)

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Gallery 1 & 2

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Artist Talk 1 Nov. 2025 Guests: IGUCHI Naoto and Director of SFRN, Suzukake Art Club Staff, involved with SHUJI Takashi, TSURUKAWA Koji and Studio Pocchi Staff

*Conducted in Japanese

Title	Related Event of Art Brut 2025 Touring Exhibition "Encounter with the Known” Artist Talk
Date and Time	Saturday, 1 November 2025　2:00PM - 3:00PM
Venue	Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Gallery 1 and Gallery 2
Guests	IGUCHI Naoto and Director of SFRN Suzukake Art Club Staff, involved with SHUJI Takashi TSURUKAWA Koji and Studio Pocchi Staff
Admission	Free
How to participate	No advance application required *Please come to the reception when it's time.
Inquiry	Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Artist Talk section Email: skdg-event2025(at) mot-art.jp * Please change (at) to @. Tel: 03-5422-3151

Artists

IGUCHI Naoto

Born in 1971, Mie Prefecture. He creates portrait photographs by placing his face and favorite items from his surroundings on a copier and adding movement to evoke a sense of fluctuation. This unique expression, stemming from interactions with facility staff, has become a daily routine that has continued for over 22 years. It has now evolved into works produced through impromptu collaboration with visitors to the facility. Recent major exhibitions include "Opening and Connecting" (Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, 2024).

IGUCHI Naoto, Untitled, 2018,
Collection of SFRN

SHUJI Takashi

Born in Hyogo Prefecture (1974-2021). He painted with a matière that conveys thickness and movement by layering pastels repeatedly. Through bold composition and coloring, as well as Shuji's unique perspective, his works evoke the inherent formal beauty of commonplace everyday objects. Major exhibitions include "Art Brut JAPONAIS" (Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France, 2010), a solo exhibition "Shuji Takashi: A Quiet Gaze" (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Gallery Wing, Hyogo, 2021), and numerous domestic and international exhibitions and collections.

SHUJI Takashi, Giraffe 3, 2009,
Collection of Suzukake Art Club

TSURUKAWA Koji

Born in 1973, Hyogo Prefecture. The countless red dots scattered across the paper surface are stains created by the bleeding of oil-based pen ink that has penetrated the paper. Deformed letters and numbers, sounds, and words he heard, along with his own emotions, are written in the spaces between the dots as if they are floating there, evoking quiet moments of creativity and daily life. Recent major exhibitions include "Art Brut 'Humanity and Nature in Japan ーBEYONDー' " (Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, 2022).