EXHIBITION

Imura art gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Keisuke Matsuura, his first in Kyoto. 


Born in Kyoto in 1970, Matsuura completed a master’ s program at Tama Art University and later 
graduated from Germany’ s Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Working from his base in Düsseldorf, he held exhibitions across Europe, while also presenting a number of large outdoor installations. The imura art gallery exhibition will show works from Matsuura’ s signature jiba series, new additions to the resonance series, and his latest series, ku.


Matsuura crafts his works around a concept of exploring the boundaries between matter and its 
environment, and between the visible and the invisible. He uses lines, squares, circles, other  geometric forms, and colors for his elements. These are arranged within a given space such that 
they maintain their visually recognizable shapes, but also transcend their simple physical existence to resonate with air currents, vibrations, magnetism, gravity, light, and other immaterial energy—and in so doing lead to new visual and physical changes.


Those changes give rise to new dialogue between space and energy, resulting in phenomena that occur within a realm where the accidental intersects with the inevitable and that exceed the artist’ s expectations. For example, the combination of lines in the resonance series begets visual effects, 
and the jiba series visualizes the invisible magnetic field produced by magnetism. In this way,  Matsuura artificially intervenes in natural phenomena in an attempt to capture the new worlds that 
result from the changes those interventions bring to the space.


The visual senses continuously change like constantly flowing energy. Matsuura speaks of his 
aspiration “to create visual rhythm from the contrasts and harmonies between matter and energy, and to use that rhythm to produce new order and harmony from the interactions between matter and its environment.” We hope that the works exhibited will give you a feel for such dynamism that comes from the resonance and collision of different energies.

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Keisuke Matsuura: resonance

Dates:2024/10 /19 ( Sat. ) ~ 11/30 ( Sat. ) 12:00 - 18:00 *Closed on 20th to 22nd and Sundays, Mondays, National Holidays

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