吉田淳治油彩展　生まれ出るもの

Junji Yoshida Oil Painting Exhibition: Umareizurumono

7/18［木］―31［水］

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　吉田淳治と知り合ったのも洲之内徹との縁だった。洲之内の回想文集の編集に関わったとき、文章を寄せてくれた画家の一人だった。その後絵と本人に出会い、新潟でも何度も展示をさせていただくことになった。
　現代画廊での発表時期の初期の絵を改めて見ると、彼が形に対し繊細な嗜好と愛をいだく画家だったことがわかる。その形への愛と、強すぎる愛ゆえの葛藤のドラマをその後の絵に感じてきた。その「形」は消えたのだろうか、と思えるような最近作の画面に、新しい驚きを覚えつつ、形と形ならざるもの（図と地）の葛藤が、長いせめぎあいの過程で、いつしか強くもあり、やわらかくもあるつながりに、美しいゆらぎになってきたのを感じる。（企画者：大倉宏）

It was through Toru Sunouchi that I came to know Junji Yoshida. When I was involved in editing a collection of Sunouchi’s reminiscences, I observed that he was one of the artists who had contributed an essay. After that, I met him and saw his paintings; and since that, I have had the opportunity to exhibit them many times in Niigata.
Looking again at his early paintings from the period when he exhibited at Gendai Gallery, it is clear that he was a painter with a delicate taste for and love of form. In his later paintings, I have felt the drama of his love of form and the conflicts that arose from this overly strong love. I was surprised to see his recent paintings in which the “form” seems to have disappeared, and I feel that the conflict between form and formlessness (figure and ground) has become a beautiful fluctuation, a connection that is both strong and soft, in the course of a long struggle. (Exhibition Planner: Hiroshi Okura)

吉田淳治（よしだじゅんじ）
1951年愛媛県宇和島市生まれ。1970～76年東京、以後は宇和島で制作。畦地梅太郎記念美術館、宇和島市立伊達博物館、べにばら画廊（宇和島）、松山三越、田都画廊（松山）、マエダ画廊、Gallery芽楽（名古屋）、現代画廊、紀伊國屋画廊、始弘画廊（東京）、ギャラリー小蕪亭（長野）、ギャラリー島田（神戸）、画廊Full Moon、新潟絵屋、砂丘館（新潟）、町立久万美術館（愛媛県久万高原町）などで個展を開催。他に佐々木美術館（仙台）などグループ展。画集3種、エッセイ集2種の刊行がある。
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Junji Yoshida
Born 1951 in Uwajima, Ehime, Japan. 1970-76 based in Tokyo, since then in Uwajima. He has exhibited at Azechi Umetaro Memorial Museum of Art, Uwajima City Date Museum, Benibara Gallery (Uwajima), Matsuyama Mitsukoshi, Tato Gallery (Matsuyama), Maeda Gallery, Gallery Garaku (Nagoya), Gendai Gallery, Kinokuniya Gallery, Gallery SICOH (Tokyo), Gallery Kokabutei (Nagano), Gallery Shimada（Kobe）, Gallery Full Moon, Niigata Eya, Sakyukan (Niigata), Kuma Kogen Town Kuma Museum (Ehime) and others. Group exhibitions include Sasaki Art Museum (Sendai). He has published three books of paintings and two books of essays.

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