Yukiko Hata “Summer Ghosts”
We visited Yukiko Hata’s solo exhibition “Summer Ghosts.” The venue was Seizan Gallery in Higashi-Ginza.
Ever since seeing Yukiko Hata’s work at the Yamagata Biennale, she has been an artist on our radar, and we had been looking forward to this solo exhibition — her first in Tokyo in five years.
Her works are characterized by their vivid, eye-catching colors. Having been selected for the “Holbein” art materials manufacturer’s scholarship, she was reportedly provided with a large amount of expensive paints. The color intensity is noticeably better than her previous paints, and to our eyes it seems to lend a new luminosity to the works.
The captions included background information related to the making of each work.
Some works also contained social messages, and in contrast with the brilliance of the palette, they allowed us to sense Yukiko Hata’s “society as seen through her own eyes.”
