Chignitta is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Genjiro Sonoda starting April 5. Sonoda is a Shiga-based painter and haiku poet. His works, created by repeatedly applying and removing colors with crayons while moving back and forth between words and pictures, give us a sense of whispers of small lives that are aptly described as “aminism. Please enjoy the correspondence between the greenery that floods the windows of Chignitta and the space of Sonoda's works.
Gallery Talk on Saturday, April 5, from 4:00 p.m.
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Exhibition Information
Genjiro Sonoda Solo Exhibition “hakarazumo
Saturday, April 5 - Sunday, April 13, 2025
Venue: Chignitta (1-13-21 Kyomachibori, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan)
Time: 13:00~19:00 Admission free, no reservation required
Gallery Talk April 5 (Sat) from 16:00.
"hakarazumo"
An Invitation to Chance
Nowadays, we are facing fewer and fewer chance encounters.
What is born from a fortuitous encounter.
What we can see there,
What we can see and what we can learn.
Ningen
Human beings are living things,
The joy of being alive.
Rediscovery by chance.
hakarazumo → by chance, unexpectedly, unintentionally
Hazardous / Encounters.
An unexpected meeting.
Things and places.
Events, words.
Sometimes light and the smell of the earth.
There
I feel a faint hint of hospitality.
I try to catch it,
to show it,
I paint a picture.
Before dawn,
an old man walks along the watery road
an old man walking along the road along the water's edge, picking through the garbage.
Vinyl Vinyl Bucuronotenshi
I thought.
I thought of the light traces left by angels
I thought of the light traces left by the angel.
GENJIRO SONODA
Born in Shiga, Japan Painter/Haiku poet
While going back and forth between pictures and words,
He has been working on a series of works, moving back and forth between painting and words.
In recent years, he has been creating spatial installations that combine words and pictures.
Recent Activities
2025 Shibuya Prize, Shibuya Art Award Grand Prize Exhibition, ELEPHANTGALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2024 brillia art award grand prize exhibition, brillia art gallery/Tokyo
2024 Noguchi Kenzo Memorial Museum Artist-in-Residence/Shiga, Japan
2023 Solo exhibition “Kasokekimono” gallery04 kaiku/Osaka
2023 Kuroyon60 Artist in Residence, Shinano Omachi, Kurobe Dam/Nagano, Japan
2022 Rocco Meets Art, Special Prize
2021 brillia art award Grand Prix, Tokyo Tatemono Yaesu Building/Tokyo
2020 Saburo Miyamoto drawing grand prize exhibition Saburo Miyamoto Memorial Museum/Ishikawa/Tokyo
Haiku Shiba Fukio Haiku Newcomer Award, Special Prize, etc.
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