17/04/2026
TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY is excited to return to the Dallas Art Fair, April 16-19. Please come visit our booth E4, upstairs at the Fashion Industry Gallery.
In this presentation, we will showcase works by three Japanese artists with diverse cultural backgrounds and distinct approaches to their practice.
We would be delighted if you could join us.
Please feel free to contact [email protected] for a preview.
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[Schedule]
Thursday, April 16: VIP Access + Preview Benefit
Public Hours:
Thursday, April 16, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, April 17, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 18, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 19, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Yasuko Hirano
Born in Toyama prefecture in 1985. Currently living in Kanagawa prefecture. Graduated from Kyoto Seika University. After preparing the ground with glue and plaster, Hirano carefully sands the surface once it has dried. She then applies the three primary colors—red, blue, and yellow — directly onto the canvas with oil paint, gradually building up material layers on the surface. Yet the sense of stratification that emerges in Hirano’ s works extends beyond physical layers alone; it also contains layers of time.
By re-painting landscapes once seen through the body of the present, the past and the present quietly intersect. The “landscape” that Hirano seeks to capture is not the reproduction of an external scene, but rather something that emerges as a field encompassing both body and mind. Her paintings function as a device that amplifies a world beyond the perspective of a single individual. Within them, phenomena that have not yet been articulated in language appear as subtle signs, gradually taking on a palpable presence.
For the artist, painting is not a complete image to be viewed from a distance. It is a site where relationships between the body, the environment, and time come into being. Painting is a trace of having touched time.
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