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Kyosuke Tchinai
Flower Going Back to the Moon, 2016 -
Kyosuke Tchinai
The Sun, the Moon, and the River, 2016 -
Kyosuke Tchinai
Flower Wandering Around the Star, 2015 -
Kyosuke Tchinai
Moon Playing with Flower, 2015
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Kyosuke Tchinai
Utopia, Flower of the Ocean, 2015 -
Kyosuke Tchinai
Wandering Flower Star, 2015 -
Kyosuke Tchinai
Flower Returning Home, 2014 -
Kyosuke Tchinai
Utopia, Floral Raft in Autumn, 2014
Biography
Kyosuke Tchinai (b. Namikata Ohchi, Japan, 1948) studied fine art at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo and received the "Excellence Prize" at the Japanese Young Artists exhibition in 1988.
Tchinai has exhibited extensively in Japan, including a solo exhibition at the Nakata Museum in 2003 and a retrospective at the Ehime Fine Art Museum in 2007. European exhibitions include the Pavillon des Arts et du Design, in Paris; the 2011 Paris Art Fair; and the 2012 BRAFA in Brussels.
His work can be found in various museum collections in Japan (in Aichi, Imabari City, Saitama and Kariya City) and in the US, as well as in private collections.
Tchinai has also illustrated a children's book, "Les chants de ma naissance," written by world famous trumpet player, Toshinori Kondo, published by Fukuinkan Shoten (Japan, 2007).
Tchinai held his first solo European exhibition, Tchinai Poésie Orientale, in 2002, at Galerie Taménaga in Paris. He has since exhibited there four times. This is his first exhibition in Great Britain.
Exhibitions
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Utopian World Kyosuke Tchinai
10 Jun - 8 Jul 2016'Utopian World' is an exhibition of paintings by acclaimed Japanese artist Kyosuke TchinaiRead more -
Kyosuke Tchinai Autumn bliss
22 Nov 2013 - 25 Jan 2014Gallery Elena Shchukina is pleased to present the debut London solo exhibition of Japanese artist Kyosuke Tchinai. Celebrated in Paris for his enigmatic canvases that combine the sensuality of the female form with traditional Japanese motifs, Tchinai creates a mesmerising visual world that hovers between the ethereal, the imaginary and reality. There are dreamyfaced women in kimonos, exotic butterflies and luxuriant flower forms, but so intensely observed and intricately painted that we see every knot in a tree trunk, every stamen in a flower. Tchinai borrows this intense gaze from...Read more