Over the Rainbow, a group exhibition curated by YIRI ARTS and Tomio Koyama Gallery. Exhibited artists including Atsushi Fukui, Daisuke Fukunaga, Satoko Nachi, Satoshi Ohno and Midori Sato as well as a Taiwanese art collective, When Pigs Fly, artists including Ho Yen-Yen, Hsu Ting-Jane, Lin Ying-Chieh, Tang Ya-Wen, Tsai Taung-Hsun, Wang Yu-Song and Wei Po-Jen.
A rainbow is a meteorological optical phenomenon caused by water vapour and the angle of refraction when the viewer's back is facing the sun. Given the various angles of the location, the rainbow seen is composed of different water droplets, making it impossible to judge where it rises or falls. This passage shines high in the sky connecting the two ends, gathering 12 artists and reflecting the spectrum of the exhibition through the individual works.
The exhibition divides the works of Japanese and Taiwanese artists into two viewing methods. Japanese artists depict the establishment of another world through the expression of paintings, and also from physical labour to outline their own emotional shapes.
Atsushi Fukui's 'Something in the Sky' series works uses high-chroma, low-brightness colours to construct a utopian world with a sci-fi tone. Satoko Nachi exhibited her 2018-2020 portrait series, in which she uses photography and realistic painting methods to create a series of portraits, with expressive brushstrokes and colours depicting the sentiments outside the appearance of the characters. Among the three works exhibited by Satoshi Ohno, the exuberant quality of the images seamlessly blends natural scenery and digital texture. In his 'Prism' series, he turns the perspective to the study of light and the ultimate exploration of beauty and life. Daisuke Fukunaga's paintings give still life paintings a novel expression and dynamic through being constructed with waste, cleaning tools, and flowers. In addition to showing the lively state of unremarkable objects, he attempted to reproduce the labour state between objects and human beings. Midori Sato presents the charm of women by exploring the colour pink and its symbolic and conceptual associations. In her work, she depicts flowers, animals, and architecture, blurringthe outlines of objects with brushstrokes, and transforming the images into exclusive collections in her cabinets.
Each member of the Taiwanese art collective, When Pigs Fly, present their individual works in this exhibition, employing multiple media - such as water, mirror, light, and body - in distinctive ways, allowing for the exploration of their motional processes and kinetic states. In the selection, the works span the different stages of the artists from the period of earlier studies to the present, which will be exhibited in the form of site-specific reproductions and video.
Ho Yen-Yen peeled off the surface of the globe, folded the map into a boat, and put it back into the original semicircle. By using the warm materials of water and light as well as the characteristics of mirrors, Lin Ying-Chieh disassembles the hard objects and then re-flows them into a complete circle. Hsu Ting-Jane played in an inflatable swimming pool with plaster mixed with water. During the passage of time, it gradually hardened into a vessel thatcarried the movement of the body. Wang Yu-Song holds a double-ended pole with a brush and a marker, and converts the black wall to a white wall on one side, while outlining the movement of the painting from the other end. Tang Ya-Wen collected several postcards circulating in the world with images of the ocean, then pasted and cut out a sparkling wave. Tsai Taung-Hsun arranged printed objects and a mirror surface to make a conflict in vision, and through this difference, through his path, he imagined the boundaries and disciplines to the border of the world. Wei Po-Jen directs the flow of water through the bottles and drawers of old wooden cabinets. Through the placement of mirrors, glass jars, and ready-made objects, he creates a different perspective that becomes anautomatic and non-fixed power device.
The presentation features 12 artists from Japan and Taiwan gathered in this exhibition and proposes a suitable viewing method for observing their interpretation and conceptual associations through a range of media, acting as a reminder of the mystery of perception itself and motivating us to explore further the unknown other side.