Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Tsutomu Iwasaki. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, showcasing a selection of his signature wood carvings that feature a persimmon motif as well as a number of new works.

While there is a superb level of craftsmanship in the works of Tsutomu Iwasaki, they also have a certain appeal that stems from how they strive for something other than realistic representation, despite the fact that they are depictions of persimmons.

The size of these works is also a little larger than an actual persimmon. By making persimmons out of wood in the form of sculptures, Iwasaki seems to be articulating something of the realistic physical representations that the artist himself makes, and recreating “persimmons as objects.”

(Text by Tomio Koyama)