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tiger question

Name of the organization or individual
Tsutomu Osaki
subsidy category
Startup Grant
Grant Type
single year

FY2024 3rd Startup Grant

Business Overview

The exhibition is based on a story about killing a tiger on a folding screen, which appears in Ikkyu Sojun's Ikkyu Sayings. The title of this exhibition is "tiger queston," and it is an exhibition by two painters, Tsutomu Osaki and Yuka Ishii, who are interested in the impracticality of paintings and the meaning of a painting being a picture, questioning the presence or absence of a drawing, metaphor and narrative.

Period of Activity / Project
Saturday, January 17, 2026 - Sunday, February 1, 2026
Venues
Higashi-Kasai 1-11-6 A Warehouse (Edogawa-ku, Tokyo)

Profile

[Tsutomu Osaki]
Tsutomu Osaki. Born in 1984 in Fukuoka Prefecture. He pursues the possibility of pictorial expression by coexisting conflicting emotions and situations that arise simultaneously and repeatedly on the screen with various techniques, colors and shapes. His major exhibitions include "production theorem, painting perfect circle"Gallery Common(2025: Tokyo), Chidori Bunka Hall (2024 in Osaka), and (2020: Kyoto) BnA Alter Museum.