Koiichiro Tada “Love, Longing, Pharmakon”
I visited Koiichiro Tada’s solo exhibition “Love, Longing, Pharmakon.” The venue is A/D GALLERY on the 3rd floor of Roppongi Hills.
This is Tada’s first show at A/D GALLERY since “NEW EMOTION,” the three-artist exhibition he co-organized with Ryu Kawada and Takanosuke Yasui.
The current exhibition centers on recent works from Koiichiro Tada’s series “About ‘You,'” “The Sea Without ‘You,'” and “The Sky Without ‘You.'”
The subtle expressions of the girls, paired with the sea- and sky-scapes, seemed to draw out the viewer’s own private feelings. The contrasts of white, red, and blue each performed their role within the exhibition space and felt distinctly alive.
What I sense in exhibition after exhibition is that Tada is an artist with an acute sensitivity to the exhibition space and a formidable gift for staging.
