Tokyo
SHIHODO Gallery introduces three artists, Tama Ragusa, Keiki Yamada, and Yukyo Yamamoto.
We would like guide you through the changes that can be experienced through their works as the artists themselves change/changed through the ages.
Tama Ragusa is an artist who lived in the shifting time when Japan started moving toward modernization about 150 years ago. Keiki Yamada paints things around him using classical Renaissance style and brings back viewers’ memories and past experience through his works. At the same time, he aims to pass on those memories and objects he paints to later generations. Yukyo Yamamoto seeks to show connections between viewers and
the modern world using things around him like one yen coins in his pockets, rice, blue sheets, and so on.
We hope you enjoy the taste of each of these artists and see how their personalities are reflected in their works.
