Resonance of Rhythm

TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY is pleased to present Resonance of Rhythm, a group exhibition conceived as a traveling iteration of The Rhythm of Thought, originally held at POOL SIDE GALLERY in Kanazawa in 2025. The exhibition features four artists — Yoichiro Kamei, Takuro Sugiyama, Soshi Matsunobe, and Daigoro Yonekura — whose practices are deeply connected to structural elements such as repetition, regularity, and physicality. Rather than directly expressing emotion or narrative, these artists construct their works through repeated actions, self-imposed rules, and responsive relationships with materials. Here, “thought” is not understood as a static form of introspection or abstract idea. Instead, it is approached as a dynamic process generated through the sustained physical acts of drawing lines, layering, carving, and arranging. Within seemingly simple repetitions emerge subtle fluctuations and deviations that generate rhythms unique to each work, quietly affecting the viewer’s perception and cognition. In his signature porcelain Lattice receptacle series, Yoichiro Kamei constructs structures composed of accumulations of identical units, exploring the inherent order and spatiality embedded within ceramics. In recent years, he has expanded this structural mode of thinking into drawing, reconsidering his formative principles across materials and formats. Takuro Sugiyama constructs pictorial space through the repetition and recombination of painting’s minimal elements, such as lines and planes. By suppressing subjective emotional expression and individual brushwork as much as possible, and by carefully handling the “edges” painted without masking, he pursues a state in which painting itself emerges autonomously. Soshi Matsunobe creates conceptual works centered on ambiguous and invisible entities such as “lines,” “shadows,” “unconscious,” and “ground.” Through minimal methods, he continuously attempts to reveal structures and conditions of perception that have become unconscious within everyday life, while embracing variability and expansiveness within the work. Daigoro Yonekura explores generation, reflection, and fluctuation within painting, beginning from images of water surfaces and flowing liquids. His fluid compositions, rendered in black and white paint, evoke memories of landscapes and scenes while simultaneously foregrounding the uncertainty inherent in the act of seeing itself. While employing distinct methodologies, the works of these four artists collectively demonstrate how thought is transformed into form through repetition and the accumulation of bodily actions. Returning to a point prior to institutionalized meaning or language, the exhibition suggests the possibility that thought resides within the very movement of the body toward creation itself. In doing so, Resonance of Rhythm offers an opportunity to reconsider the fundamental nature of artistic expression in the contemporary moment.