Kazumi Yoshida: New Works Opening Feb. 22nd at Chery Hazan Gallery
CHERYL HAZAN GALLERY is pleased to present an exhibition of works by renowned artist and designer, Kazumi Yoshida. Kazumi is globally recognized for his work with Clarence House and Hermes, and has most recently been featured in a solo museum retrospective in Palermo, Italy.
Design is merely one element of Yoshida’s artistic practice, and PAYSAGE PARADIS at Cheryl Hazan aims to celebrate his mastery of painting, collage, and woodcut. His wide scope of work is drawn together by common threads of vibrant color, mind-bending perspectives, and elegant forms.
Yoshida takes inspiration from artists such as Jean Cocteau, Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger, and Pablo Picasso. He pays homage to the beauty of landscapes of his native Japan, whilst incorporating surrealism seen in early 20th century French art.
“Looking for the links to nature and all living beings, under the lens of a harmonious coexistence, seems to be more and more the result of an imagination wanting to turn the impossible into matter. This is what Kazumi Yoshida does in his artistic research aimed at the creation of worlds looking for an imaginary Arcadia, populated by fantastic animals moving between architectures and spaces and living in perfect harmony. This joint presence then gives origin to the image of a new opportunity, a different and harmonious one, where happiness takes the shape of a flapping of wings or a catlike leap and reminds of an archetypical register of the relationship between nature and human artifacts.
Kazumi Yoshida has a broad and varied cultural background including Far Eastern iconographies and its form of perception together with a clear and vibrant graphic language, which is also a straightforward declaration of a composite, layered, and multi-faceted history.
Yoshida’s style comes from his creative gesture, from a way of defining worlds through a visionary approach nourished by ancient stories. His cultural and aesthetical heritage is made of swishing silk and clinking porcelain as thin as leaves, and it is endlessly crossed by rituals that have been codified over thousands of years and are refreshed and revived by the repetition of the creative gesture in its complex and natural perfection.”
Excerpt from UTOPIA, curated by Paola Necita
