About the Exhibition

Whitestone Gallery Karuizawa (Gallery3) is pleased to announce the solo exhibition by icco Yoshimura, “add a dash of spice to life”.

As the exhibition title “add a dash of spice to life” literally indicates, icco Yoshimura has been getting familiar with cooking and painting since her childhood and she wishes from the bottom of her heart that her art will become a trigger for adding a dash of spice to the life of the viewers.

Icco Yoshimura was born in Kyoto in 1987. Because of her family background that her parents owned a French restaurant, she spent a lot of times in the floor and the kitchen. Waiting for the parent’s working hours to end, she used to sit at the counter sheet and draw illustrations of wine bottles and table wares on the backside of the scrap papers－this routine became her starting point as an artist. “Blissful time of sitting around the table with precious people”－its pricelessness has continued to be the source of her creative inspiration until today.

In this exhibition, the work “supper”, which uses the 10m-long canvas to resemble the dining table and displays there a full-course meal consisting of starter, main dish, dessert, and coffee, will be arranged in the middle of the venue. Beyond the ‘described’ full-course meal, an ‘undescribed' joyful babble of voices from gathered people seems to be appeared at the front. Besides, circa 40 works including the series such as “shepherd's purse” and “pop out” which raise the food loss problem by depicting the domestic animals, as well as “The Water of Life” series which appreciate the value of a glass of water, will be simultaneously exhibited.

Please come visit and experience the world of icco Yoshimura, which brimmed with positive energy scooped up from everyday life.



top image：icco Yoshimura "supper"(partial image) / 100.0 × 975.0 cm/ 2022/ Acrylic on Roll canvas