Kara, which means empty, was maybe the painter’s darkest collection yet. He... painted the landscapes on a gloomy day in Toronto. The paintings were minimalism at its best. He looses the faces that through years he tried to understand. But more horrifying in Kara he almost looses the city motif itself. The landscape of the city was hardly seen. The busy life that went on in it, the thousands of faces that inhabited it were all missing. This time the city as a whole was fighting for its own existence. The painter seemed so detached, like a mere uninterested observer, and yet the results were frightening. With the grey sky which endlessly stretched above almost swallowing the city landscape, it felt apocalyptic. It left us with a bitter taste. The collection was lost without being exhibited, so the depicted void was for a long time just a mere distant memory.
Texts excerpted from Daisuke Takeya and Contemporary Poetic Sentiment by Fumio Nanjo, former director of Mori Art Museum
Stony Reserve
2009, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm, Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank Collection, Canada. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The Embassy of Japan in Canada, The Pouch Cove Foundation, SCOPE Miami, Art Chicago, Christopher Cutts Gallery, THE GOOD LANDS (2017 by Victoria Dickenson p.88 ISBN: 978-1-77327-024-1)
Toronto
2010, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm, private collection, Canada. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The Embassy of Japan in Canada, The Pouch Cove Foundation, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Art Chicago 2010
Montreal
2008, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm, private collection, Canada. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The embassy of Japan in Canada, The Pouch Cove Foundation
Ottawa
2008, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm, private collection, the United Kingdom. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The embassy of Japan in Canada, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Ottawa
2008, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm, Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank Collection, Canada. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The embassy of Japan in Canada, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Untitled Tokyo
2010, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm, private collection, Canada. Provenance: Art Tokyo, Christopher Cutts Gallery
Tokyo
2009, oil on canvas, 213.36 x 182.88 cm, private collection, Germany. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The embassy of Japan in Canada, The Pouch Cove Foundation, Art Tokyo, Roppongi Hills Club
Osaka
2009, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm. Presently at Seoul Auction. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The Embassy of Japan in Canada, Roppongi Hills Club, Seoul Auction
St. John's
2010, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery, James Baird Gallery, SCOPE Miami Beach 2010, Art Chicago 2010
Niagra Falls
2010, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery
Pouch Cove
2010, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, The Embassy of Japan in Canada, The Pouch Cove Foundation,SCOPE Miami 2010, Art Chicago 2010, Christopher Cutts Gallery, James Baird Gallery
Isshiki Beach
2010, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm, collection of the artist, Japan. Provenance: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, Roppongi Hills Club, Gallery Shibunkaku
Untitled Route 13
2018, oil on canvas, 213.36 x 182.88 cm. Provenance: Yamagata Retorokan
Untitled (Jomon Civilization)
2016, oil on canvas, 163 x 130 cm. Provenance: Najomon, Christopher Cutts Gallery
Venice (homage to Yayoi Kusama's 1959 painting No. 2)
2010, oil on canvas, 213.36 x 182.88 cm. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery
Yokohama
2009, oil on canvas, 213.36 x 182.88 cm, private collection, the Republic of Korea. Provenance: Art Tokyo, Roppongi Hills Club, Seoul Auction
New York (homage to Vanilla Sky, 2001 directed by Cameron Crowe)
2010, oil on canvas, 213.36 x 182.88 cm. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery
Horizonn - Pissing Contest (South China Sea)
2010, oil on canvas, 183 x 183 cm. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery
Kind of Blue (Toronto)
2016, oil on canvas, 183 x 183 cm, private collection, Canada. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery, Art Toronto 2017
Confederation Bridge
2010, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm, private collection, Canada. Provenance: Art Toronto, Christopher Cutts Gallery
Deer Junction (Homage to Christopher Pratt)
2009, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery, Art Toronto, James Baird Gallery *Missing after being shown at James Baird Gallery in 2011
Vancouver International Airport
2010, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm. Provenance: Art Toronto, Art Tokyo, Ropppongi Hills Club, Christopher Cutts Gallery
Kansai International Airport
2009, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Roppongi Hills Club, Gallery Shibunkaku, Mori Art Center
Untitled night with the moon
2014, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm.
Ishinomaki Okawa Elementary School
2016, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm. Provenance: Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc, Christopher Cutts Gallery
Light from 311 Kesennuma
2011-2012, mixed media on canvas mounted on wooden board, 91.5 x 122 cm, collection of the artist, Japan. Provenance: Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc, Maruto Saito Chaho Tea Company
Untitled Yamadera Hotel
2018, oil on canvas, 96 x 122 cm. Provenance: Yamagata Retrokan
Vancouver
2002, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm. Provenance: Lost without being shown in 2002
Toronto
2002, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm. Provenance: Lost without being shown in 2002
New York
2002, oil on canvas, 183 x 123 cm. Provenance: Lost without being shown in 2002
Tufts Cove Factory Halifax
2010, oil on canvas, 91.44 x 30.48 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery, Gallery Shibunkaku
The Canadian Parliament Building
2010, oil on canvas, 91.44 x 30.48 cm. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery, Gallery Shibunkaku
Japanese Diet Building
2010, oil on canvas, 76 x 15 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Showcase/Megumi Ogita Gallery, Shibunkaku Gallery, Christopher Cutts Gallery, 39 ART
Matsushima
2010, oil on canvas, 76 x 15 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Showcase / Megumi Ogita Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Daimonji Morning Light
2010, oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Zangetuan night
2010, oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Demachi sunset
2010, oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm, rivate collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Kinkakuji Temple
2010,oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Ginkakuji Temple
2010, oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm, private collection, Canada. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Untitled Kyoto ~ Sanjusangendo sunset
2010, oil on wooden board, 36.5 x 7.5 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Gion night
2010, oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm, private collection, Canada. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Kyoto ~ Shimogamo Shrine Sunset
2010, oil on wooden board, 36.5 x 7.5 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Kyoto Tower
2010, oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Untitled Kyoto ~ Collector's Residence
2010, oil on wooden board, 70 x 11 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery
Untitled Kyoto ~ Kyoto gosho
2010, oil on canvas, 76 x 15 cm. Provenance: Shibukaku Gallery, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Study for a Thousand Prayers
2010, oil on canvas, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibunkaku Gallery
Godly Mountains, Fire Walk With Me (work in progress)
2010, oil on traditional Japanese panel, collection of the artist, Canada. Provenance: Shibunkaku Gallery
Nabowa's River
2010, oil on wooden board, 103 x 73 cm, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Shibunkaku Gallery
Untitled Pouch Cove
2008, oil on canvas, private collection, Japan. Provenance: The Pouch Cove Foundation
Untitled Pouch Cove 2
2008, oil on canvas, private collection, Japan. Provenance: The Pouch Cove Foundation
Venice
2009, digital lithograph, edition of 20. Provenance: Roppongi Hills Club, Art Tokyo, BAG ART (Art Metropole, Up Art Contemporary Art Fair)
Pink (Statue of Liberty)
2010, collaboration painting with the audience at the opening reception. Oil on canvas. Provenance: Christopher Cutts Gallery.
Untitled Tokyo Skytree
2018, oil on canvas, private collection, Japan. Provenance: Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Art (NICA)
2016 -2017, installation view, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Canada
2016 -2017, installation view, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Canada
2008, installation view, the Japan Foundation, Toronto, Canada